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Review of The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

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

The Lego Ninjago Movie codifies the amusing pleasures and simple riffs of 2014's The Lego Movie into a kid-friendly adventure satire without…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

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

Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton have crafted an astute film where the drama mostly unfolds without confrontation…

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Review of The Go-Betweens: Right Here (2017)

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

What Stenders captures - alongside classic songs such as Cattle and Cane and Head Full of Steam - is the emotional breadth and contradictory…

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Review of Born in China (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 25 Sep 2017

The narration, delivered by actor John Krasinski with a curdled dollop of aw-shucks geniality, reduces the seasonal narrative to incidents…

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Review of American Assassin (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 25 Sep 2017

Director Michael Cuesta has made a celebration of American retribution that while cleanly cut ends up as a paperback fantasy…

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Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 25 Sep 2017

Vaughn's spin on American iconography lacks the verve of his homeland take, with the Statesman resembling beefy models from a 1965 Esquire…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

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

Jacobs avoids explanation and rote debate, paying close heed to uncomfortable silence and physical expressiveness and offering a timely reminder…

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Review of The Emoji Movie (2017)

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

The design is bright and there are in-jokes for the emoji users among parents, but even with his history of great voice work (see Big Hero…

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Review of Spookers (2017)

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

It's a smart, distinctive documentary, complete with a dry sense of humour underlined by the Kiwi accents and incongruous tableaus captured…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

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

Arteta creates small telling contrasts, whether showing how Spanish is the background language of the staff or contrasting the diminutive,…

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Review of Namatjira Project (2017)

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

The weight of its many strands eventually tie together the past and the present, artistic greatness and commercial reality, and Indigenous…

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Review of Mother (2017)

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

Buoyed by an emotionally acute lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence as the uneasy half in a couple, the film has no end of palpable elements…

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Review of That's Not Me (2017)

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

The film profits from both the cosmic cruelty of someone physically the same being perceived so differently and the lead's note-perfect facial…

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Review of Mother (2016)

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

Buoyed by an emotionally acute lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence as the uneasy half in a couple, the film has no end of palpable elements…

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Review of mother! (2017)

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

Buoyed by an emotionally acute lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence as the uneasy half in a couple, the film has no end of palpable elements…

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Review of 47 Meters Down (2017)

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

British director Johannes Roberts, with good work from cinematographer Mark Silk, allows the undersea action to unfold like a procedural, so…

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Review of Gifted (2017)

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

The performances are better than the material, with Evans movie-star stoic while Octavia Spencer makes the most of an underwritten role as…

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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

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

Sexuality is not a means of escape, but a way of making sense of these demanding lives for both the characters and the audience…

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Review of Girls Trip (2017)

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

It's able to balance genuine insight with comic punctuation and shameless resolution; they get high and heartfelt…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

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

But you can't overstate how many familiar elements are awkwardly plugged together here, from fight scene flourishes to obvious punchlines…

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