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Ian Barr

Ian Barr's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Location:

Australia

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http://www.streetpress.com.au/online_mags/DM/

Reviews

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The Wild Pear Tree (2018) 94% EDIT “[Ceylan] has succeeded in translating to screen the experience of being engrossed by a particularly discursive, verbose, and occasionally hubristic novel.” – Cinema Scope Sep 11, 2018 Full Review Border (2018) 97% EDIT “Instead, it betrays a lack of faith in the familiarity of the Other, something that might have given lasting resonance to what is otherwise an initially intriguing but finally self-consciously distinctive curio.” – Cinema Scope Sep 6, 2018 Full Review Lover for a Day (2017) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Packs a whole lot of nuance and romantic consideration into its bracingly curt run time.” – Little White Lies Jan 19, 2018 Full Review Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) 92% EDIT “Wild though the film often is, a truly revelatory history of the studio and its legacy remains untold.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review The Little Death (2014) 61% EDIT “The Little Death is really just best ignored entirely.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review Homesick (2015) 50% EDIT “Sewitsky's strenuous attempts to make an unsensational and non-judgemental film on a weighty subject result in a film that throws its back out.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review The Devil's Candy (2015) 93% EDIT “Sadly, the film whiffs the baroque climactic good-versus-evil confrontation and trots out too many clichs getting there.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review Goldstone (2016) 76% EDIT “With its tossed-off subplots involving shonky mining deals, sex trafficking and alcohol smuggling, it resembles a TV season's worth of developments condensed maladroitly into feature length, even as its pace remains languid.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review The Rehearsal (2016) 83% EDIT “The film is enlivened by an uncommon depiction of young people behaving and interacting in a believable manner, and confidently builds to a (literal) showstopper ending that's both rousing and hard-won.” – Cinema Scope Oct 16, 2017 Full Review The Other Side of Hope (2017) 92% Recommended EDIT “The Other Side of Hope gets by on the simple pleasures unique to Kaurismki's oeuvre.” – 4:3 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review Aquarius (2016) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Indulgent, occasionally unwieldy, but put together with passion and verve.” – Little White Lies Mar 21, 2017 Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% Recommended EDIT “La La Land is more a companion piece to Whiplash, expressing similarly ambivalent and conflicted attitudes to the creative process.” – 4:3 Jan 5, 2017 Full Review How Heavy This Hammer (2015) 83% Recommended EDIT “Radwanski's depiction of Erwin's ordinariness is so concentrated and intense to the point that we're led to see nothing but ourselves in his predicament.” – 4:3 Aug 11, 2016 Full Review Carol (2015) 94% Recommended EDIT “What Carol captures more specifically than the thrill of a romantic encounter is the act of remembering only to forget.” – 4:3 Mar 2, 2016 Full Review
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