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Review of All For One (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Aug 2017

It bulges with Aussie camaraderie and conflicting personalities whose disagreements are mentioned but never examined…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Aug 2017

The role makes Cruise's obsessive energy both believable and pleasurable…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 26 Aug 2017

It's yet another clunky movie where the effortlessly charismatic Elba has to make do with cliches…

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Review of Killing Ground (2017)

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

The terror for the audience is blunt and bludgeoning, but conversely Power is an accomplished stylist who adroitly keeps the camera on the…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

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

The movie almost has enough assured touches and aromatic performances to make you overlook that the humour is generic at times and that the…

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Review of The King's Choice (2016)

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

While the plotting can be sluggish, the best quality of The King's Choice is how it reveals the sudden, dislocating impact of war…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

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

The vista is widescreen and so is the deprivation: boarded-up trailers that are barely habitable and bodies laid out in the snow, surrendered…

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Review of The Time of Their Lives (2017)

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

The cast are not so much game as professional - all three understand what must be done in the service of a paltry story…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

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

The concise length partially mitigates the failings, but ultimately this is a Saw knock-off in camo gear…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 Aug 2017

The French filmmaker's vast space opera is frustratingly contrary: it's diversionary instead of dynamic, convoluted instead of creative, and…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 06 Aug 2017

Both the script and the direction, from Michael Showalter, move with such pleasing assurance, held aloft by warm currents of banter backstage…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Aug 2017

Seeing Caesar bound to a cross, or watching apes enslaved to work and die when they yearn for their own promised land, you could easily surmise…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Aug 2017

The living and the dead share a space but little else, and Mara captures the flickering needle of grieving…

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Review of Descent Into the Maelstrom: The Untold Story of Radio Birdman (2017)

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

Descent Into the Maelstrom ticks off each needle flicker on the timeline, but it almost never seizes on a crucial moment or pushes its subjects,…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

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

America gives Wright his boss tunes, his cinematic influences and a ticket to ride…

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Review of The House (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 10 Jul 2017

This is a more complex construction than some of Ferrell's recent comedies - it is bleak about the pliability of local communities, complete…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 10 Jul 2017

Headlined by a winning performance from Tom Holland as a teenager enduring a truly demanding puberty, Spider-Man: Homecoming downscales the…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Jul 2017

There's a slight commentary on suburban versus rural America, but returning English director David Bowers favours icky mayhem and genial rapprochement…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 02 Jul 2017

That's part of the power conveyed by the sparse storytelling - it keeps bringing connections and realisations to the surface…

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Review of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 29 Jun 2017

A bracing, insightful study of how cities are made and sometimes destroyed…

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