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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 14 Mar 2017

It has a barbed sense of humour, a thankful disbelief in military might and a sense of scale that comes with a mocking physicality…

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Review of Aquarius (2016)

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

While the drumbeat of gentrification is obvious, the film moves to the particular pace of Clara's life, catching the rhythm of her daily routine…

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Review of Logan (2017)

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

Full of grainy light and bloody violence that is shadowed by sorrowful regret, James Mangold's movie creates a sober and deeply satisfying…

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Review of Aquarius (2016)

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

While the drumbeat of gentrification is obvious, the film moves to the particular pace of Clara's life, catching the rhythm of her daily routine…

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Review of Miss Sloane (2016)

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

Armed with rhetorical questions that ricochet and a take-no-prisoners attitude, Chastain's Elizabeth Sloane is a mass of sharp, compelling…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

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

Cameraperson shows how the act of being filmed is a negotiation, and even without the initial context the emotional crux of certain sequences…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

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

There are nods to how contemporary Scotland has changed, but Boyle's desire to intertwine then and now mostly puts commentary aside for a remix…

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Review of The Family (2016)

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

First seen when police raided homes in 1987, The Family's communal children, some adopted illegally, recount as adults the beatings, starvation,…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 24 Feb 2017

Zhang is more interested in ceremonies than combat sequences…

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Review of The Love Witch (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 24 Feb 2017

A stylised invocation of camp 1960s Technicolor melodrama and 1970s Italian horror recast for an alternate history where the occult and gender…

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Review of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 24 Feb 2017

In a way this a companion piece to 2010's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, with an awe attached to the idea of creation that mostly precludes discussing…

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Review of The Coming War on China (2016)

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

A barbed interview with a US diplomat is prime Pilger, but his eye for imagery amid the apocalyptic foreshadowing is equally strong - walking…

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Review of Silence (2016)

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

A richly detailed study of faith as a force of spiritual respite and of despair, one that feels deeply connected to both the holy men and unholy…

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Review of Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio (2016)

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

Matt Conboy's documentary captures both the unstoppable change and strange conflagration of the final weeks where construction work happens…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

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

You have to get past the obvious dialogue, the repetitive plot, the less than scintillating sexual encounters, the wasted supporting cast,…

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Review of Silence (2017)

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

A richly detailed study of faith as a force of spiritual respite and of despair, one that feels deeply connected to both the holy men and unholy…

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Review of The King (2017)

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

The sound and fury negates subtlety or cause, but this whirlwind drama is a telling primer on South Korean white collar rituals…

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Review of Winter at Westbeth (2016)

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

Spong captures the lust for life in his subjects and, particularly in the case of Williams, their heartfelt memories, while celebrating the…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

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

Stripped of a steadying score and explanatory monologues - so much is left unsaid in Toni Erdmann that the absence starts to say something…

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Review of Fences (2016)

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

One of the pleasures of Fences is seeing Washington's dominant technique - that swaggering walk, the hardening of his voice when challenged…

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