Cameron Williams
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Little White Lies,
sbs.com.au,
Birth.Movies.Death.,
The Popcorn Junkie,
Junkee,
Graffiti With Punctuation,
The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia),
The Brag
Location:
Australia
Official Websites:
thepopcornjunkie.com
Movie Reviews Only
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| 98% | The Father (2021) |
A captivating character-driven drama that uses time and interior design to tell its story beautifully. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Mar 31, 2021
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| 75% | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) |
So silly at a human level but when it's up there with Godzilla and Kong it's an action spectacular. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Mar 31, 2021
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| 71% | Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) |
This mulligan is exhausting but an improvement. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Mar 18, 2021
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| 88% | News of the World (2020) |
Tom Hanks puts the 'man' in 'anchorman' in this thoughtful western. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Feb 14, 2021
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| 88% | Onward (2020) |
For all the brotherly heart and magical spark ... it's without the ingenuity of Pixar. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Mar 9, 2020
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| 95% | The Irishman (2019) |
A late-career masterwork. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Nov 8, 2019
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| 91% | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) |
A slow burn epilogue that provides closure for Jesse Pinkman (if that's what you're after), and it's far from cheap fan service. - Junkee
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| Posted Oct 14, 2019
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| 68% | Joker (2019) |
We've been trolled. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Oct 10, 2019
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| 54% | The Dead Don't Die (2019) |
Uses the template of a zombie film to offer a running commentary on the constraints of films designed as mass entertainment. A zany genre trip. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Sep 24, 2019
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| 90% | Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) |
Teen crushes, superhero succession plans and disappointing men. The MCU through a teenage lens is still a fun place to be. - Junkee
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| Posted Jul 3, 2019
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| 42% | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) |
Godzilla remains a political monster. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Jun 7, 2019
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| 89% | Rocketman (2019) |
A biopic in denial that it's a musical. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted May 31, 2019
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| 68% | Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) |
Grounds itself in a world of cute totem creatures with its buddy cop premise but the sins of video game films lurk. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted May 9, 2019
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| 94% | Avengers: Endgame (2019) |
Takes the MCU, 21 films worth of scrapes, near misses and heroic feats, and unleashes a magnificent mortality fable. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Apr 24, 2019
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| 90% | Shazam! (2019) |
Adventures in superhero-ing. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Apr 4, 2019
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| 37% | The Dirt (2019) |
Chooses to celebrate instead of interrogating what the band's excess says about the world and how they were able to get away with it that desperately tries certify the band's "legendary" status as survivors. - Junkee
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| Posted Mar 26, 2019
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| 93% | Us (2019) |
A terrifying look at how American society justifies and compartmentalises the horrors of its foundations, the extremes of privilege and the bloody means to protect a patch of sunshine. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Mar 26, 2019
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| 46% | Dumbo (2019) |
A minefield of corporate contradictions but for all its old school charms it has a satirical edge as a big circus absorbs a smaller circus, sound familiar? - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Mar 26, 2019
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| 60% | Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) |
Proves the task of trying to define Queen may be impossible. - Junkee
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| Posted Nov 1, 2018
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| 90% | A Star Is Born (2018) |
Prefers to focus on what great music should be - and how a music career should be run - rather than getting to the heart of what leads to someone to bare their soul through music - Junkee
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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| 96% | BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
Spike Lee is both a biographer and interrogator, infiltrating confederate belief systems that perpetuate American myths and how they endure in our culture. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Aug 15, 2018
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| 32% | Fahrenheit 451 (2018) |
A hot take on a classic. - Birth.Movies.Death.
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| Posted May 14, 2018
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| 85% | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) |
A spectacular display of monotony. - The Brag
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| Posted Apr 30, 2018
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| 72% | Ready Player One (2018) |
A nostalgic thirst trap with no reverence for the pop culture moments it deploys haphazardly. - Junkee
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| Posted Mar 28, 2018
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| 88% | Annihilation (2018) |
A spectacular work of science fiction that not only gets under your skin but it becomes part of it. - Junkee
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| Posted Mar 12, 2018
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| 21% | Mute (2018) |
Struggles in the shadow of its influences, however endearing they may be, and fails to leverage the sum of its parts into something worthwhile. - The Brag
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| Posted Mar 1, 2018
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| 96% | Black Panther (2018) |
Proves a Marvel film can aspire to be something more; it has political bite, emotional depth, ethical dilemmas, and regal jostling, but it still manages to maintain a bombastic comic book aesthetic that's spectacular. - The Brag
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| Posted Feb 6, 2018
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| 79% | All the Money in the World (2017) |
A portrait of one man's greed but it can never push past constantly questioning the allure of wealth while going through the beats of a true tale. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Jan 5, 2018
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| 90% | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) |
Muddled by bombast, but it finds significance in the art of failure as a means to an end for a new beginning (again) for Star Wars. - The Brag
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| Posted Dec 13, 2017
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| 40% | Justice League (2017) |
A headache. A disorientating, nonsensical, hot mess barely tethered together by the digital blurs of DC Comics' heroes. These heroes appear to need saving from themselves. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia)
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| Posted Nov 16, 2017
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| 86% | It (2017) |
Only glances the skin but never gets under it. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2017
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| 92% | Dunkirk (2017) |
Tightly focused, even minimalist approach to telling the true tale of a military disaster and how hope was cultivated in the sands a mighty failure. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 19, 2017
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| 92% | Baby Driver (2017) |
The action film with the heart of a musical. Ask your local cinema to play it loud. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 18, 2017
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| 16% | The Mummy (2017) |
A film that approaches Cruise like it's 1996. Never settles into a groove and it's constantly suffering from an identity crisis. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 12, 2017
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| 92% | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) |
Puts Peter Parker the teenager first, and piles superhero woes on top of him, but it never loses its sense of mirth - Junkee
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| Posted Jul 11, 2017
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| 87% | Okja (2017) |
A brilliant war of ideologies over the life of a superpig. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Jul 4, 2017
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| 65% | Alien: Covenant (2017) |
Leverages the franchise's canon into bold, existential ideas about artificial intelligence and the relationship between gods and monsters; fathers and sons. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted May 20, 2017
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| 85% | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) |
Stuck on rewind in space. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Apr 24, 2017
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| 5/5 | 89% | I don't feel at home in this world anymore. (2017) |
The vigilante tale we need right now, pushing back on the decay of decency with pulp in the first truly great Netflix original film. - sbs.com.au
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| Posted Feb 27, 2017
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| 83% | Silence (2017) |
The key to unlocking Martin Scorsese's new film is to listen closely. - sbs.com.au
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| Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 87% | Jackie (2016) |
If the winners write history, the survivors become guardians of the legacy. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Jan 11, 2017
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| 18% | Assassin's Creed (2016) |
A slave to the material. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Jan 6, 2017
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| 91% | La La Land (2016) |
Envisioning the best versions of ourselves in snappy musical numbers before reality crashes the party. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Dec 19, 2016
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| 84% | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) |
The rebel yell is a little croaky. - The Popcorn Junkie
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| Posted Dec 14, 2016
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| 94% | Arrival (2016) |
Manages to transcend its genre elements and get to the heart of our existence. It exemplifies the power of love and sorrow to work as markers for our lives. - Graffiti With Punctuation
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| Posted Nov 2, 2016
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| 89% | Doctor Strange (2016) |
Shows Marvel have mastered the art of the C+ despite getting wonderfully weird at times. - Graffiti With Punctuation
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| Posted Nov 2, 2016
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| 48% | Mascots (2016) |
Christopher Guest achieves dad-joke status. - Graffiti With Punctuation
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| Posted Oct 13, 2016
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| 85% | Sully (2016) |
A reminder of why pilots refer to their passengers as 'souls' - Graffiti With Punctuation
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| Posted Sep 15, 2016
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| 3/5 | 94% | Tickled (2016) |
A gonzo doco for the new media age. - Graffiti With Punctuation
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| Posted Aug 18, 2016
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| 4/5 | 59% | The Neon Demon (2016) |
Like getting mauled by a diamond encrusted hyena - Graffiti With Punctuation
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