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Review of Embrace (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Aug 2016

A film that is at points torn between the documentary filmmaking tradition and launching a hashtag-ready movement…

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Review of The Second Mother (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Aug 2016

In Anna Muylaert's domestic drama…

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Review of Dough (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Aug 2016

A pot comedy that amiably bridges every divide possible - religion, class, age, and pastry preference…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 24 Jul 2016

A scene of emotional redemption, involving a dilapidated carousel being remodelled, may be the most cloying screen sequence in the year to date…

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Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 24 Jul 2016

The new Star Trek movies are trying to pay homage to a philosophy at odds with Hollywood's current obsessions…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jul 2016

A loopy comedy hanging out inside a Hollywood blockbuster ... Paul Feig's female-centric remake is smart, funny and surreptitiously subversive…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jul 2016

Irish filmmaker John Carney's abiding affection for the emotional pull of making music gets a buoyant charge of adolescent nostalgia in Sing…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 Jul 2016

Maggie's Plan maintains writer-director Rebecca Miller's close fascination with the turning points in female lives, but drama has given way…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 Jul 2016

Susanna White's film, with its unexpectedly evocative colour palette and steady drip of danger, might tidy up le Carre's worldview, but idealism…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 04 Jul 2016

[It] succeeds on its admittedly meagre ambitions because of the productive dynamic between the two leads and a surprisingly honest appreciation…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 04 Jul 2016

Even as Asia is dropped on Europe the film lacks the comic book enthusiasm and clear-eyed momentum of the 1996 original…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Jun 2016

It's understandable that disabled activists have protested, given that this clumsy English romantic melodrama suggests the loss in quality…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Jun 2016

Spielberg has already made one brilliant movie about a young English child thrust into a dangerous environment with 1987's Empire of the Sun,…

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Review of The Wailing (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Jun 2016

Doleful humour, abrasive familiarity, and an avoidance of horror tropes such as shock cuts, anchors the film's mood in the everyday, even as…

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Review of The Fits (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2016

A quietly audacious coming-of-age tale lodged inside a psychological horror film…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2016

If you're already Bored with the Rings, then fantasy epic Warcraft is the last thing you'll want to see…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2016

Dory can fritter away your interest, and the prominence also exposes the limitations of DeGeneres as a voice actor: daffy blather is a cinch…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2016

Cheadle is compelling, but his movie sometimes struggle to make the many elements harmonious…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Jun 2016

The thinness of the plot -- as opposed to the sturdy themes -- and sitcom-y snap of the dialogue only tire towards the end…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 Jun 2016

[It] zips along on childish impulses, a cartoonish view of good and evil, and a genial approach to saving the world that thankfully opts for…

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