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Review of All Eyez on Me (2017)

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

The film displays little sense of rhythm to its technique and no insight in its storytelling aside from burnishing Tupac's complex legacy…

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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

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

It's a case of apocalypse very soon, with a checklist of borrowed elements that ranges from the boys in Netflix's Stranger Things to the BB-8…

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Review of Detour (2017)

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

The satisfaction in Detour ultimately comes not from the drama drawn from these conflicting personalities, but a finale that knits together…

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Review of Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2017

The film works best as a study of celebrity self-delusion, with the singer glossing over reality in each media appearance, but Broomfield is…

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Review of Una (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2017

What Mara and Mendelsohn share as actors is an intensity that can warp a scene's direction as if amending the emotional gravity between their…

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Review of Risk (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2017

Poitras, with a suitably furtive technique that amplifies both the paranoia and the pettiness, struggles to define Assange…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

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

Corseted courtesies and the candlelit rooms with their flickering pools of light never overwhelm the story's contemporary resonance…

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Review of Kedi (2017)

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

Defined by low to the ground camerawork that captures feline grace and a ruminative philosophical outlook, this Turkish documentary about the…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

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

The new Mummy is a woman, Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), whose lust to rule got her cursed and interred…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 07 Jun 2017

The idea of the prickly misanthrope who tries to waywardly make good is starting to become an archetype in the cinema, but Woody Harrelson…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 07 Jun 2017

Gadot's Princess Diana is the full nascent-superhero package: youthful idealism, a body so perfect you'd swear it was a special effect, and…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 07 Jun 2017

The idea of the prickly misanthrope who tries to waywardly make good is starting to become an archetype in the cinema, but Woody Harrelson…

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Review of Hounds of Love (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 01 Jun 2017

A horror film hiding behind the blank facade of house in Perth's suburbs, Hounds of Love is a nightmarishly tense study of the power that the…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 01 Jun 2017

Guy Ritchie is too inventive a filmmaker to deliver a dull take on Arthurian legend, but the six different movies he has tried to squeeze into…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 01 Jun 2017

The temporary alliances and perpetually battered maps are repetitive, while Depp's signature discombobulated banter, all haphazard and huffy,…

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Review of A Dog's Purpose (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 May 2017

The movie somehow manages to be both trite and macabre…

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Review of Handsome Devil (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 May 2017

A sweet if slight movie about the trials of teenage conformity…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 May 2017

The first sign that Amy Schumer's screen persona - boisterously deceptive, comically revelatory - can be smoothed down into a crudely affable…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 20 May 2017

Reeves' grim perseverance sometimes feels like it's in a different film to the vivid brightness splashed around him…

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Review of The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

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

There is a point in filmmaking where the tasteful can become timid, and unfortunately this handsome period drama turns that corner halfway…

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