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Review of Emo: The Musical (2016)

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

The plotting gets somewhat repetitive and a touch of choreography to fill the frame may have helped…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

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

The best moments of Gunn's follow-up to his 2014 hit have an unfettered filmmaking joy - a knowing, kinetic pleasure that comes with a wink…

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Review of Bad Girl (2016)

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

Like Amy's gleaming new home, which is transformed from a sanctuary into a trap, the film twists perceptions of adolescent camaraderie, attraction,…

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Review of Going in Style (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 23 Apr 2017

The retirees condemn international outsourcing of jobs and Wall Street greed and then hatch a sweet get-even scheme…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 23 Apr 2017

An action-comedy played out at half speed, with a cheerfully black sense of humour that nicks and wounds like the bullets intermittently ricocheting…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 23 Apr 2017

These stories takes shape against the backdrop of everyday tasks and ritual-like chores; these women can't transcend the lives that they have…

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Review of Table 19 (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 23 Apr 2017

A Hollywood romantic comedy that wades deep into sentimentality when it repeatedly appears better off exploring the abrasive and the unexpected…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 17 Apr 2017

Marillier, quivering with fearfulness and then flush with rapt pleasure when she indulges, never merely becomes a ravenous cannibal…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 17 Apr 2017

So why is The Fate of the Furious an amusing step up on recent editions…

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Review of Berlin Syndrome (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 17 Apr 2017

As a mystery based on intent and escalating risk, the movie lacks momentum, but as an exploration of character it digs into both Clare's responses…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Apr 2017

Defined by scenes that occur between two fixed points: a train travelling between Paris and London, the divide between belief and fear, the…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Apr 2017

Spall suggests a rotting, vainglorious ego while Weisz displays a brassy immediacy, easily contrasted with her British lawyers, but none of…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 09 Apr 2017

Spall suggests a rotting, vainglorious ego while Weisz displays a brassy immediacy, easily contrasted with her British lawyers, but none of…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

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

Sanders makes wow moments out of entrances, as when Major crashes a restaurant massacre-cum-brain hack with guns blazing…

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Review of The Boss Baby (2017)

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

There's an offbeat tone to the movie - personified by a gorgeously assembled pastel fantasia sequence set in a baby-making factory versus a…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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

The love in this Beauty and the Beast resides in the audience's affection for the 1991 soundtrack, which stars with nostalgic durability…

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Review of Zach's Ceremony (2016)

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

The film shows the public and personal pressures confronting Zach, from the historic white dispossession to everyday racism in the schoolyard…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

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

No menacing corridor goes unexplored and no mood is left unteased in this glossily atmospheric thriller where the 1 per cent have their own…

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Review of A Few Less Men (2017)

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

New director Mark Lamprell (Goddess) does a decent job stringing out obvious jokes and keeping the cast in comic motion, but the film is episodic…

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Review of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (2017)

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

Cris Jones' debut feature is that rare thing: a mock documentary that reaches a genuine emotional depth…

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