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Review of The Infinite Man (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 21 Sep 2014

Hugh Sullivan's terrific Australian time-travel comedy is an inventive and dryly hilarious depiction of how the obsession with perfection can…

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Review of Tom at the Farm (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 21 Sep 2014

The psychological menace is combined with Dolan's sometimes florid aesthetic to fascinating effect, signalling that he's well aware of the…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 21 Sep 2014

Familiar actors come and bloodily go, generally failing to make sense of reductive roles…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 21 Sep 2014

The bond between siblings is made very real by Wiig and Hader, who make that old line about laughing until you cry genuinely believable…

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Review of The Immigrant (2013)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 Sep 2014

What's difficult to encapsulate is the vivid emotion that underpins this story, or the depths suggested by the close-ups of the remarkable…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 27 Aug 2014

Magic in the Moonlight, an uninspiring yet familiar tale of faith, reason and romance, may well be one of the poorest pictures Woody Allen…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Aug 2014

The third instalment, directed by young Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes, is as creaky and rheumatic as some of its leads…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 10 Aug 2014

The cast are clever at filling in the gaps the story has to carry, with the romantic attraction between Peter and Gamora, which begins with…

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Review of These Final Hours (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 03 Aug 2014

Zak Hilditch's tense apocalyptic drama These Final Hours gives a familiar concept a telling new location: Perth…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 03 Aug 2014

While the story is concisely and confidently told, there's something chilly about Lucy (and Johansson's) sudden goodbye to life as we know it…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Jul 2014

This terrific follow-up to 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes bests what was a good film by matching clear, evocative themes to sublime…

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Review of Good Vibrations (2012)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 03 Jun 2014

In the charming if somewhat predictable Good Vibrations, popular culture proves able to match the firepower of divisive politics…

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Review of Sunshine on Leith (2013)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 May 2014

Thankfully more pleasing than patronising, Sunshine on Leith works because it's not universal; while tidied up, it's still peculiar to a place…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 May 2014

Gilliam is so busy shaping every visual element that his female lead has about as much depth as one of his clever props, like the musical pizza…

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Review of The Double (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 11 May 2014

The Double turns out to be singularly impressive…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 May 2014

Nicholas Stoller's raucous comedy is a surprisingly smart tale of people doing dumb things, managing to underpin the revenge antics between…

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Review of Fading Gigolo (2013)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 01 May 2014

It's difficult not to query his [Turturro] intentions, as the 57-year-old, best known for playing eccentric or sometimes comically loopy characters…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 01 May 2014

He [Marc Webb] tinkers at the edges and has some fun but there are parts of this film that are bizarrely perfunctory…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 10 Apr 2014

His anti-Twilight filters various themes and ideas, but they never threaten to become a cohesive plot or offer resolution…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 28 Mar 2014

The plotting is purposeful and the writing tidy…

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