|
3/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
But in a small-scale way, aided by a strong, wry central performance from Kendrick, Pitch Perfect has its charms. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
Finally, there's something a little sketchy about the movie, a little unfinished and scattergun. The figure of Jesse recedes in importance, and it's Celeste whose delusions we focus on. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
A new Bond film, we are assured in the closing credits, is on its way -- Skyfall provides reasons to look forward to more."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
60%
|
Housos Vs. Authority () |
"
It's a paean to the virtues of the versatile thong -- ubiquitous footwear, and a handy offensive weapon. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Hail () |
"
It's Courtin-Wilson's willingness to push boundaries, to explore ways in which the troubled self can be depicted, that makes Hail so singular and striking. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
91%
|
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) |
"
The film balances the extraordinary and ordinary with great aplomb, and Duplass and Plaza give beautifully judged performances. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
51%
|
Savages (2012) |
"
The messy insouciance wears a little thin, and by the time we get to the absurdity of the extended ending, enough is definitely enough."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
As a perverse portrait of management issues and the challenges of ''getting the job done'', it is sure-footed, dark and comic."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
40%
|
Mental (2013) |
"
Collette's performance anchors the film: it has a fierce, uncompromising quality that gives strength to the film's two interwoven tendencies - in-your-face comedy and emotional distress. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
It's a witty, appealing romantic comedy with a surprising edge, a cleverly written and deftly acted exploration of what happens when dreams appear to become reality, and the emotional stakes are raised. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
Kath & Kimderella () |
"
Despite these familiar set-ups, it soon becomes clear that there is something missing from Kath And Kimderella. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
Deceptively meandering and unexpectedly complex, Your Sister's Sister combines a poignant, funny directness with a teasing incompleteness. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
In Leos Carax's beautiful, exhilarating, transporting new film, there is something special, and singular, about the act of filming and the nature of cinema. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Chinese Take-Away (Un Cuento Chino) () |
"
A film about repression and constraint that keeps its emotional range carefully under control."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
A sense of well-executed blandness sets in. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
There's enough there, in all likelihood, to make audiences hope for more, but it's not as finished or complete a work as it should have been."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
The Campaign (2012) |
"
A bloated, half-baked movie."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
44%
|
The Door () |
"
There's something quite haunting about the relationship between the two women: in some surprising ways, this is a determinedly unsentimental work. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 18, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
It doesn't have quite the emotional intensity of the second movie, The Dark Knight, but it's a powerful, intricately constructed work, thoughtful, visceral and satisfying. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) |
"
For Perry fans, there's not much more you could ask for - but for non-devotees, it's a lightweight package."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
The Ice Age format has endured surprisingly well: the fourth instalment in this lavish animation series is once again a buddy movie with a spectacular prehistoric disaster back-drop. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
Amid the fast-moving chaos, it gets a little repetitive: there's so much volcanic action, so much fire and brimstone that all that heat might leave you cold. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
The Hunger Games' strength is not its social critique - rather, it's an exhilarating sense of a character learning to control her own destiny. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Santa's Apprentice (L'apprenti Pere Noel) () |
"
Bright, amiable traditional animation with an old-school flavour and solid storytelling. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) |
"
There's nothing particular strong or telling about its comedy."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
16%
|
Priest (2011) |
"
Its visual style veers between bleached desert tones and slimy undercover dankness, but the 3D version is undistinguished."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
Green Lantern (2011) |
"
The green aesthetic misfires: the whole film looks as if it's been inspired by a particular shade of washing-up liquid, or the glowing screens of ancient computers."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
Love Crime (2011) |
"
Rather than contemplating the tension of performance, we are resigned to watching the elements of the story click mechanically and rather drearily into place."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
82%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
Its human characters are ciphers, even if the actors include Franco, Lithgow, Brian Cox and Freida Pinto, but its animal rebels are utterly convincing."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
63%
|
Here I Am () |
"
Quietly, and with an unobtrusive grace, Here I Am explores harsh truths, everyday realities and intimations of change."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) (2011) |
"
Julia's Eyes becomes a little incoherent as it plunges towards resolution, but it's unerringly stylish and whole-heartedly suspenseful along the way."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
34%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
The premise and the execution are numbingly familiar, and what was funny and unexpected about a guys-bonding-under-pressure movie the first time around becomes: ''Are they kidding? Again?'' "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted May 26, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
My Afternoons with Margueritte (2011) |
"
A disarming film with a pair of deftly judged performances at its centre, Jean Becker's My Afternoons With Margueritte risks sentimentality, but maintains a sense of lightness that is its saving grace. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
Hop (2011) |
"
For the most part it tries too hard, lurching from one plot contrivance to another and never giving any of its cast (apart from the heroically hard-working Marsden) much to do."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Apr 6, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
62%
|
Griff the Invisible (2011) |
"
There is something consistent, likeable and heartfelt at its centre, and Kwanten and Dermody are ideally cast. They bring a mixture of robustness and restraint to this gentle account of solitude, fragility and the possibilities of complicity."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Barney's Version (2011) |
"
If Giamatti's performance is rigorously unsentimental, director Richard Lewis and writer Michael Konyves (adapting Morechai Richler's novel) succumb, a little too often, to slow-moving warmth and wryness."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
The explanation takes away a good deal of the mystery and menace, not to mention the comic energy, of the original story and the many versions it has inspired."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Mar 23, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
The Next Three Days (2010) |
"
It's an all-consuming task, and Crowe makes this obsessiveness plausible."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
Tamara Drewe (2010) |
"
There's something about the desperation of Jody that gives the film its most uncomfortable and surprising moments. Otherwise, it's a bit of a stroll down familiar paths."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Shaolin (2011) |
"
An expansive, energetic, big-budget martial arts action film that encompasses combat, explosions and moments of introspection."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
The Tourist (2010) |
"
This should be a potent combination, but it turns out to be a fizzer."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
|
49%
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) |
"
While Dawn Treader is competent enough, with good special effects, it never rises to great heights. There's something a little stolid and bland about it, even when the fantasy elements are at the fore."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Dec 1, 2010
|
|
3.5/5
|
79%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) |
"
Yates has developed a distinctive visual style and there are some striking locations in this film, landscapes that have an almost dreamlike power. And the action has an abrupt kinetic impact."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Nov 15, 2010
|
|
|
88%
|
La Danse -- Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris (2009) |
"
Long, graceful, quietly exhilarating."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 20, 2010
|
|
|
57%
|
Summer Coda () |
"
Summer Coda, handsomely shot by Greg de Marigny, is a mixture of emotional understatement and pastoral lushness: it looks handsome, but its pace drifts at times. "
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 20, 2010
|
|
|
73%
|
The Housemaid (2011) |
"
Its humour is twisted and biting, its aura sleek and erotically charged and full of menace, its images impeccably composed."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 20, 2010
|
|
|
51%
|
Chloe (2010) |
"
As the film's tone moves from psychological drama to erotic arthouse thriller, slickness and absurdity overpower the playful, treacherous ambiguities it has established."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Oct 13, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) |
"
It gleams and glistens but it has no substance. It is, in the end, a missed opportunity."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
28%
|
Charlie St. Cloud (2010) |
"
Has its poignant moments but does not trust them, and does not explore its darker potential. It lays on the sentiment too thickly and underlines the uncanny with a heavy-handed touch."
—
The Age (Australia)
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
78%
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