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

Movies
TV

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
	96%	The Irishman (2019)	A late-career masterwork. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 8, 2019
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 14, 2019
	69%	Joker (2019)	We've been trolled. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 10, 2019
	55%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 24, 2019
	91%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 3, 2019
	42%	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)	Godzilla remains a political monster. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 7, 2019
	89%	Rocketman (2019)	A biopic in denial that it's a musical. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted May 31, 2019
	69%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted May 9, 2019
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 24, 2019
	90%	Shazam! (2019)	Adventures in superhero-ing. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 4, 2019
	39%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 26, 2019
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 26, 2019
	47%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 26, 2019
	61%	Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)	Proves the task of trying to define Queen may be impossible. - Junkee EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 1, 2018
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 18, 2018
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 15, 2018
	33%	Fahrenheit 451 (2018)	A hot take on a classic. - Birth.Movies.Death. EDIT Read More \| Posted May 14, 2018
	85%	Avengers: Infinity War (2018)	A spectacular display of monotony. - The Brag EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 30, 2018
	72%	Ready Player One (2018)	A nostalgic thirst trap with no reverence for the pop culture moments it deploys haphazardly. - Junkee EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 28, 2018
	88%	Annihilation (2018)	A spectacular work of science fiction that not only gets under your skin but it becomes part of it. - Junkee EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 12, 2018
	20%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 1, 2018
	97%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 6, 2018
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 5, 2018
	91%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 13, 2017
	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) EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 16, 2017
	86%	It (2017)	Only glances the skin but never gets under it. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia) EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 12, 2017
	93%	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) EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 19, 2017
	93%	Baby Driver (2017)	The action film with the heart of a musical. Ask your local cinema to play it loud. - The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia) EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 18, 2017
	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) EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 12, 2017
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 11, 2017
	86%	Okja (2017)	A brilliant war of ideologies over the life of a superpig. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 4, 2017
	66%	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted May 20, 2017
	85%	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)	Stuck on rewind in space. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 24, 2017
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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 27, 2017
	83%	Silence (2017)	The key to unlocking Martin Scorsese's new film is to listen closely. - sbs.com.au EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 23, 2017
	87%	Jackie (2016)	If the winners write history, the survivors become guardians of the legacy. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 11, 2017
	18%	Assassin's Creed (2016)	A slave to the material. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 6, 2017
	91%	La La Land (2016)	Envisioning the best versions of ourselves in snappy musical numbers before reality crashes the party. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 19, 2016
	83%	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)	The rebel yell is a little croaky. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2016
	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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 2, 2016
	89%	Doctor Strange (2016)	Shows Marvel have mastered the art of the C+ despite getting wonderfully weird at times. - Graffiti With Punctuation EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 2, 2016
	49%	Mascots (2016)	Christopher Guest achieves dad-joke status. - Graffiti With Punctuation EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 13, 2016
	85%	Sully (2016)	A reminder of why pilots refer to their passengers as 'souls' - Graffiti With Punctuation EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 15, 2016
3/5	94%	Tickled (2016)	A gonzo doco for the new media age. - Graffiti With Punctuation EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 18, 2016
4/5	59%	The Neon Demon (2016)	Like getting mauled by a diamond encrusted hyena - Graffiti With Punctuation EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 18, 2016
	74%	Ghostbusters (2016)	The gender politics of women demanding to be taken seriously in their chosen profession has never been this much fun. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 12, 2016
	29%	Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)	The dream of 90s blockbusters is alive. Unashamedly goofy and sincere with its absurdity. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 24, 2016
	28%	Warcraft (2016)	A submissive digital splat. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 17, 2016
	81%	Girl Asleep (2016)	Exquisitely encapsulates the struggle between adolescence and maturity with wide-eyed apprehension and a little mourning for the pint-sized person we once were - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 2, 2016
	91%	Green Room (2016)	Pulsates on the collision of youth and violence with unrelenting execution of slasher/siege elements. - The Popcorn Junkie EDIT Read More \| Posted May 31, 2016