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Review of Quest (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 31 Dec 2017

The political lens is unavoidably sharp, but the embedded filmmaker captures moments of strength and support, crises that mark the health of…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 28 Dec 2017

Dee Rees' film is a study of historic division, but it has such a poetically tragic sense of the characters and their limitations that it transcends…

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Review of Sami Blood (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 28 Dec 2017

With her youthful hope poisoned by guilt, writer-director Amanda Kernell's camera stays on the teenager, so scenes have a simultaneous sense…

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Review of In Between (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 19 Dec 2017

A touch of the exterior plotting is haphazard, but the vital, succinct direction reveals the camaraderie the trio forge, and right up until…

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Review of Hello I Am David! (2015)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 19 Dec 2017

In this generous documentary, which takes up the endearing enthusiasm of its subject, the life of concert pianist David Helfgott gets a contemporary…

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Review of Waru (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

Invariably there is a piece that falls short, but these precise snapshots mostly add up to a telling contemporary portrait of the stresses…

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Review of Inference Notes (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

Couched in shadowy organisations and gossipy students, Zhang Tianhui's movie is blithely absurd…

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Review of King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

A respectful chronological journey through his early life and many works, which if anything could use a little bit more of what Martin Scorsese…

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Review of Sea Sorrow (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

The noticeable flaws in this documentary about the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe from British actor and activist Vanessa Redgrave…

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Review of Fags in the Fast Lane (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

The mood is madcap, as pop-art expressionism meets '60s trash meets Benny Hill action, while the entendre are single and spunky…

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Review of Sweet Virginia (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

Jamie M…

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Review of Shot Caller (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 13 Dec 2017

Coster-Waldau gives a committed performance, but Waugh's screenplay and direction is so focused on the machinations of crime that it ignores…

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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 05 Nov 2017

By not pushing the worrying psychological limits, Dave McCary's film pulls off a tidy switch where the past's painful failings are supplanted…

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Review of Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 05 Nov 2017

Matsumoto's luscious black and white cinematography is ruptured by stylised desire, high melodrama, Jean-Luc Godard dictates, street cinema…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 05 Nov 2017

Brad sees the best and then, as a defence mechanism, the worst in his now distant pals, and White delivers these moments with scalpel sharp…

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Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 05 Nov 2017

Thor still has to get his father's benediction, but Ragnarok makes mass destruction and a superhero's responsibility equal to adventure thrills…

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Review of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 21 Oct 2017

Heard through lively 1990 interviews, Lamarr describes a career that objectified her and a brilliance that wasn't recognised, let alone rewarded,…

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Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 15 Oct 2017

Denis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 science-fiction classic is very much the French-Canadian filmmaker's own work, building and…

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Review of The Belko Experiment (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 15 Oct 2017

The surrender to expediency is unrestrained, but it's only at the close that McLean indulges the macabre and expressionistic, giving the atrocities…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 08 Oct 2017

It's to Pattinson's credit that you slowly start to realise that Nick's absolute belief in Connie is an ongoing act of affirmation that the…

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