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2.5/5
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23%
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
I wasn't expecting how warmly I'd feel towards the characters by the end of the movie - and I certainly wasn't expecting to tear up a little bit during one of the couple's denouements. How in hell did that happen?"
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 4, 2012
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|
3.5/5
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79%
|
Get the Gringo () |
"
Gibson's character gives a ten year old kid (who becomes a major character, without ever becoming a brat) a cigarette, and the kid lights it up and smokes it. Try getting MGM, Universal, Paramount or Disney to release that. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 4, 2012
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|
3/5
|
68%
|
Men in Black III (2012) |
"
Director Barry Sonnenfeld was the cinematographer on Misery, Raising Arizona and Blood Simple - and there is no doubt he has a signature, comedic camera style that works for his material."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
39%
|
Bel Ami (2012) |
"
Adapted from Guy de Maupassant's second novel, published in 1885, Bel Ami is a good film, with some very strong elements, let down rather tremendously by a seriously amiss piece of central casting."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 27, 2012
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|
3.5/5
|
98%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
It's an interesting exploration of a particular aspect of Japanese culture, which is fathers and sons working together. It's a very likeable film, and sometimes, that's enough. If you're a Japanophile or a sushi nut, you'll likely be in heaven."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 22, 2012
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|
2.5/5
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58%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
The whole love story shackles the movie, forcing it to ultimately and ruinously fit into the strict confines of the rom-com genre, whereas Cohen has always been at his best, like any rubber chicken, when allowed to be free range."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 21, 2012
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|
3.5/5
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65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
It's a good clean, very British romp - the kind of horror movie you could take your mum to. As long as you're not hoping to be scared to death, you'll have a great time, too."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
The longer the movie plays, the more disjointed, episodic, and incoherent it becomes. It has no idea what it is."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 15, 2012
|
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3/5
|
40%
|
Iron Sky () |
"
If you like your sci-fi strange, and if you appreciate "little films that can - and do", you just might groove to this. I did."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
King of Devil's Island (2011) |
"
The true events on which the film are based are wonderfully stranger than fiction, and by the end of the film I was deeply moved and thrilled by what I had seen."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 6, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Wish You Were Here () |
"
It confidently embraces a fractured narrative that ranges across time and between two countries without ever being confusing or obfuscating... Wish You Were Here is deeply excellent on every level it chooses to operate."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
That director Joss Whedon has put them all in the same movie and made it work at all is no mean feat."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
84%
|
Romantics Anonymous (2011) |
"
If you really like French ambience, this film is drowning in it. But don't expect Amelie or Chocolat. This film is far less witty, charming and moving than those films, no matter how desperately it tries to emulate them."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
This is the first time I've gone to an Aardman film and left feeling that there wasn't anything in it for me."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 22, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
Besides being a blatantly obvious Transformers rip-off, Battleship is essentially explosion porn - a practically endless litany of stuff being blown up, with the destruction of Hong Kong thrown in for good measure."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Apr 22, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
Carnage is ... more of a curiosity than a major experience - but it's fun and funny, and sometimes that's enough."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Mar 11, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
It's fast paced, exciting, thrilling, edgy, moving, engaging, and - in its portrait of a justice system almost radically alien to the one I live under - absolutely fascinating. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Mar 11, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Buck (2011) |
"
It would be a very hard-hearted person indeed who would not warm to the gentle charms of ... this low-key, fondly personal look at one of life's gifted but hardly world-famous personages."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Mar 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
Kormakur's talent shows itself best when handling the sheer immensity of his props. The freighter and its containers are used to great effect, their sheer weight and bulk providing action scenes that are highly unusual and innovative."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Mar 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
Michelle Williams is astonishingly good as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. It's a great shame the film itself can't equal the brilliance of Williams' performance."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
The Grey features some astonishing sequences, spectacular cinematography, excellent performances and heartfelt ruminations on mortality, faith, masculinity, hope, family and existence. It also has really really cool wolves."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
There is no denying its originality, commitment, and sheer entertainment value."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
It is hard not to use an excess of superlatives for Shame, and it is impossible to avoid the chestnut "it won't be for everybody". It's dark, even brutal, and it makes you examine parts of your own psyche that you might not love to dwell on."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
98%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
An occasion when style really does triumph over substance."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
The new muppet movie, written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, is a total delight. Any fears that the muppets may have been unwisely thrust into something that is outside of their inherent character can be safely allayed."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
If, like me and countless millions, Tintin kind of was your childhood, then this film will no doubt have already created a kind of panic within you: what if they screw it up? They haven't, so don't worry."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
J. Edgar is a love story. The fact that one of the lovers is someone you wouldn't want at your dinner table means that the film is handsome, well crafted, but not nearly as involving as it might have been."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 14, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Bill Cunningham New York (2011) |
"
Don't worry if you've never heard of Bill Cunningham. This delightful documentary is all about getting to know the man - and he's a major, fascinating character."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 14, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
How much did they pay Pacino to do this? Four million dollars? Ten million? Who knows. But let's be very clear straight up: this is not Pacino's Being John Malkovich."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
There are things you just wouldn't see in a Pixar or Disney movie. For example, one of the main elves has an eyebrow piercing, uncommented on. Even more than that: two of the boy elves kiss... each other. It's progressive."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Attack the Block (2011) |
"
Fighting aliens with these diverse, street-smart, slang-slinging little criminals is all the more fun for fighting them in the Block: a fantastic funhouse of a battlefield, providing plenty of room for extremely witty and well-shot action sequences. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
I'm so convinced that Clooney will eventually make his Huge, Important Film About American Politics that it's odd to me he's made this one: his small, entertaining film about American politics."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
Don't see it if you're pregnant. Seriously."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
If the concept of the film doesn't interest you, I reckon you should take a punt: you'll be very nicely surprised at just how good it is."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
81%
|
Red Dog () |
"
I was immensely moved by "Red Dog", and I can't picture a movie-goer who won't be. It's wonderful."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Hanna (2011) |
"
The entire thing - the whole weight of the movie - rests on the remarkable abilities of Saoirse Ronan ... she's an exceptional actor. She's one of a kind."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011) |
"
Has way more than the average serving of laughs out loud, and even has a few of those laughs that go on and on, that hurt your gut."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
44%
|
Bad Teacher (2011) |
"
Weirdly ill-conceived. Diaz is good and very believable as ... the most dislikable character I've encountered in a film in a long time ... [which] makes for a lousy movie."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) |
"
This is a massive, tentpole, franchise movie with impeccable good taste -- its most essential, surprising and exhilarating ingredient."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 20, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
74%
|
The Human Resources Manager (2011) |
"
The long, long journey that makes up the bulk of the film is bizarrely undramatic."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Special Treatment (2011) |
"
The tag line for the advertising campaign is bold: 'A film that dares to tell the truth about women.' I, unfortunately, missed whatever truth that was."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
Meek's Cutoff (2011) |
"
Kelly Reichardt's extremely modest film is slow, but it is also intriguing, moving and meaningful."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
It feels like Malick made the film for himself, rather than for an audience."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jul 6, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
The Trip (2011) |
"
Your enjoyment of the film rests entirely on enjoying the company of Coogan and Brydon. I find the duo extremely talented and funny, and many sequences in the film are very, very, funny indeed."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 30, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
81%
|
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) |
"
Go for a beer in the middle forty minutes; come back refreshed for the ... [final] extraordinary battle sequence."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 29, 2011
|
|
2 1/2
|
87%
|
X-Men: First Class (2011) |
"
January Jones ... in a James-Bond-style white catsuit, probably sums up the tone of the film as it should have been the whole way through. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011) |
"
If Super 8 isn't as moving as ET, as mysterious as Close Encounters, or as exciting as Raiders, it has heart, humour and sheer storytelling panache in spades."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Cane Toads: The Conquest () |
"
[Lewis'] art is all his own: no-one else shoots ugly amphibious imported pests in 3D quite like him."
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 22, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Blame (2010) |
"
It's essentially well acted, beautifully shot, and the script has enough propulsion to sustain its very modest eighty-eight minutes. "
—
ABC Radio (Australia)
Posted Jun 22, 2011
|
79%
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