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David Stratton

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Biography:: David Stratton is a former Director of the Sydney Film Festival, former film critic for the international film industry magazine Variety, and is currently film critic for The Australian. A recipient of the Australian Film Institute ?s Raymond Longford Award, David has also served as a former President of the International Critics Jury for the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, authored two books, and is currently lecturing in Film History as part of the Continuing Education Program at the University of Sydney. David says, ?I had been the film consultant to SBS from its inception and then presenter of both the Movie of the Week and Cinema Classics for over 22 years. Both Margaret and I are grateful for the opportunities that SBS and The Movie Show have given us and have great affection for the network. So our decision to leave SBS is not a step we have taken lightly. But we are excited about the new challenge on ABC TV.?
Publications:: At the Movies (Australia) , The Australian , Variety

Total Reviews:: 827

Location:: Sydney, Australia

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" If you want a feel-good home-grown movie, this is the film for you." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Aug 10, 2012
4/5	88%	Not Suitable for Children (2013)	" What lifts this Australian romantic-comedy above the level of most of its Hollywood counterparts is the reality of the characters and the situations and the honesty of the film's approach. " — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jul 11, 2012
2.5/5	58%	Hysteria (2012)	" Everyone else seems a bit daunted by the subject matter." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jul 11, 2012
3.5/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" The film is perfectly satisfactory -- but there's a profound sense of deja vu." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jul 5, 2012
2.5/5	37%	Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)	" There are more laughs in [the preceding] 4 1/2 minute short than in the entire feature that follows it." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jun 29, 2012
3/5	78%	Brave (2012)	" Merida's curly red hair is an animator's dream, but not much else in this rather laboured fairy tale is memorable." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jun 21, 2012
3/5	50%	Swerve ()	" As a thriller... SWERVE misses the target." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jun 6, 2012
3.5/5	74%	Prometheus (2012)	" Has enough tension and jolts to the system to make it well worth seeing. " — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Jun 6, 2012
3.5/5	86%	Careless Love ()	" Nammi Le gives a really fine performance in the leading role, creating a sad yet strong and resilient character with complete conviction. " — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 16, 2012
4/5	98%	Silent Souls (2011)	" Stunningly photographed for the wide screen SILENT SOULS is another indication that the Russian cinema, despite its problems, is still capable of producing major work." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 16, 2012
3.5/5	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" It builds up to this extraordinary finale and this speech he makes, which is like something out of Frank Capra practically." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 16, 2012
3.5/5	38%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" It certainly is magnificent to look at. I think where it falters a bit is in the dark romance." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 16, 2012
3.5/5	38%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" Certainly delivers the goods on several levels without quite rising to the heights to which it aspires." — The Australian Posted May 16, 2012
2.5/5	57%	Safe (2012)	" Like so many action films these days the film is over-edited and under-plotted, and we've seen Statham's tough guy character many times before." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 10, 2012
3/5	36%	Iron Sky (2012)	" The performances are fine and the film, mainly shot in the studios on the Gold Coast, looks terrific most of the time; it's the script that needed more oomph." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 10, 2012
3.5/5	67%	Trishna (2012)	" The film works because the social constraints that affected Tess seem to be still current even in today's rapidly changing India." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted May 10, 2012
3/5	62%	Café de Flore (2012)	" There's something quite haunting about the film, and perhaps more than one viewing is required to sort it all out." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 26, 2012
2.5/5	14%	Ecstasy (2012)	" In the end, ECSTASY wants to have it both ways -- drugs are celebrated at the beginning of the film, and condemned -- or at least the crime connected with them is - by the end." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 26, 2012
3.5/5	100%	Life In Movement ()	" Essential viewing for lovers of modern dance." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 13, 2012
3.5/5	95%	L'ordre et la morale (Rebellion) ()	— At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 12, 2012
4/5	79%	The Deep Blue Sea (2012)	" This beautifully photographed film, which starts with an outstanding long crane shot accompanied by Samuel Barber's haunting violin music, breathes fresh life into what might have been an arcane story from another, not so fashionable, era." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 11, 2012
4/5	68%	This Must Be The Place (2012)	" This won't be to everyone's taste, as the mixture of moods can be unsettling at times -- but it's beautifully made and acted, very original, and conceived on a grand scale." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 4, 2012
3.5/5	80%	Goodbye First Love (2012)	" Delicate portrayal of young love, obsession, longing and bitter disappointment." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Apr 4, 2012
3.5/5	50%	Mirror Mirror (2012)	" This was a very pleasant surprise to me." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Mar 29, 2012
3.5/5	54%	Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)	" Apart from its message about the dangers of greed and the threat to the fragile environment, it doesn't aim very high visually or technically. But it's entertaining, colourful -- and it doesn't overstay its welcome." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Mar 28, 2012
4/5	78%	A Dangerous Method (2011)	" Both Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen are impressive, but the film belongs to Keira Knightley, who gives a quite astonishing performance, one modelled closely on existing film of women patients who suffered from this kind of hysteria." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Mar 28, 2012
1.5/5	85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" One of the problems, I think, is that given that the books were aimed at young women, I think the filmmakers have been terrified at making anything too violent." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Mar 21, 2012
3.5/5	50%	The Rum Diary (2011)	" It's sort of chaotic. It swings around all over the place but it's nicely done. It's nicely acted and Johnny Depp's terrific." — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Mar 20, 2012
2.5/5	51%	John Carter (2012)	" Director Andrew Stanton, making his first live-action feature after the successful Pixar animated films FINDING NEMO and WALL-E, hasn't been able to bring anything very new to the familiar story of battles among rival forces on another planet:" — At the Movies (Australia) Posted Mar 9, 2012
—	——	Depuis Qu'Otar est Parti... ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Bleeder ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Body Melt (2003)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill) (2002)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The Silver Stallion (The Silver Brumby) (1993)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	11%	Cut (2000)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	98%	All About My Mother (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (Leningrad Cowboys treffen Moses, Die) (1994)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Hak bak sam lam (Black White Forest) (Colour of the Truth) (2003)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Planet der Kannibalen (Planet of the Cannibals) (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Erskineville Kings (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Butt Ugly Martians: Best of the Bad Guys (2005)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	After the End of the World (Sled kraja na sveta) (1998)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Hopeless Romantic (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Tuhog (2002)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Five Days, Five Nights (Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites) ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	20%	The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	La Bande du Drugstore (Dandy) (The Drugstore Gang) (2002)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The Beach at Trouville (Der Strand von Trouville) (1998)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Letters in the Wind (Namehay bad) (2005)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Swimming Upstream (2005)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Feeling Sexy (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Princess Diana Memorial Match 1998 (2008)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	I'll Make You Happy (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Spank (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Ação Entre Amigos (Friendly Fire) (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	So it Doesn't Hurt (Zeby nie bolalo) (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Bird of Prey (1996)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Kabloonak (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Day the Sun Turned Cold (1996)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Bad Eggs ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Rinaldo (2003)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The Heartbreak Kid (1993)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	96%	Watermarks (2005)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	40%	The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Snakeskin (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Rendan (Quartet for Two) (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	True Love and Chaos (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Niki and Flo (Niki Ardelean, colonel in rezerva) ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Thank God He Met Lizzie (The Wedding Party) (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Un moment de bonheur (2002)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Pleasant Days (Szép napok) (2002)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Roman Summer (estate Romana) (2000)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The Nostradamus Kid (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Molly & Mobarak ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The Sun Assassinated (Le Soleil Assassine) (2003)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón) (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Hildegarde (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Moscow Square (Moszkva tér) (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Yume no ginga (Labyrinth of Dreams) (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Via Satellite (1998)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	A Comédia de Deus (God's Comedy) (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Diplomatic Siege (1999)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Sreda (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Stikkfri (Count Me Out) (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part III - From Sark to Finish ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Klassikko (The Classic) (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	89%	Der Unhold (The Ogre) (1998)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Treasure Hunt (Hua qi Shao Lin) (1994)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Mesto na zemle (A Place in the World) (A Place on Earth) ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Dead Letter Office (1998)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Lilian's Story (1998)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	The House Of Cain(to Spiti Tou Kain) (2000)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Fausto 5.0 (2001)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Paws (1997)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Antartida (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Revenge of the Red Baron (2006)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Kiss Goodnight (1994)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Last Man Standing (1996)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Les Diables ()	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012

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