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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

The result is unusually small and surprisingly genuine for a modern Disney production. The film values friendship, but also acknowledges trauma…

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Review of The Carer (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

A dyspeptic comedy that quickly gives in to sentimentality ... any dramatic tension dissolves into tepid manipulation…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

It helps immeasurably that Ben is played by [Viggo] Mortensen, who with his greying beard and watchful gaze, makes you aware of how deeply…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman's documentary may well be the ultimate political experience, capturing in excruciating detail the hopeful…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

It features a brisk four-legged adventure, some knowing jokes pitched at the adults in the audience, and the surreptitious belief that cats…

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Review of The Queen of Ireland (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

The filmmaking is workmanlike, but many of the ideas explored are sharp: drag queens like Panti, one observer notes, take the fear of effeminacy…

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Review of My Scientology Movie (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 12 Sep 2016

Theroux gets the blowback he hopes for with overt surveillance and bizarre confrontations that are as comically illogical as they are creepily…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

Phillips keeps shooting his characters in tight pairings, as if searching for tension, but the story lacks momentum and it only really comes…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

The movie, an adaptation of Dave Eggers' 2012 novel of the same name, captures the mercenary basis of corporate culture and Tykwer's love for…

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Review of Sunset Song (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

The structure can be episodic at times but the strength of Sunset Song is in its cumulative power…

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Review of David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

The sight of David Brent shilling for forgiveness and empathy, and blatantly receiving it, is the kind of development the once incorrigible…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

Wheatley's camera repeatedly dollies in towards Laing, as if pursuing something it can't catch, and that forlorn quest is an elevator ride…

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Review of Ben-Hur (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

The brief scenes with a handsome woodworker, aka Jesus Christ (Rodrigo Santoro), are staggeringly banal, reductive in both religious and cinematic…

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Review of Tickled (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

The story's spine is so magnetic that you're held tight until the quiet but conclusive finale…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 30 Aug 2016

This survival thriller about a surfer precariously trapped just offshore by a predatory shark lacks one essential element: a performance motivated…

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Review of Indignation (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 15 Aug 2016

A coming-of-age tale from another era, one whose rules, obligations and constraints prove to be wryly comic and ultimately tragic…

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Review of Bad Moms (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 15 Aug 2016

This Hollywood comedy about a trio of exhausted mothers who buck the system is intermittently fun but lacks both the freakiness and finesse…

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Review of Train to Busan (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 15 Aug 2016

The train's compartmentalised space and succession of doors create both a fixed space rife with opportunities for tension and a welcome geographic…

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Review of Censored Voices (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 08 Aug 2016

In Mor Loushy's compelling documentary the rigours and reality of war are revealed through the unexpurgated original tapes and illustrative…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 08 Aug 2016

Knee deep in spent shell casings and sardonic asides, David Ayer's superhero-friendly remake of The Dirty Dozen becomes more conventional as…

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