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      Patriot Games (1992) The director, Australia's Phillip Noyce, pumps enough adrenalin into the story to help the audience suspend its derision, and the supporting cast works hard at bringing a degree of dignity to some clichéd characterizations. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Jun 06, 2023
      Army of Darkness (1992) Adolescent gross-out is replaced with adolescent humor, with the usual bad acting much in evidence. Raimi's energetic inventiveness offers only partial compensation. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2023
      Thelma & Louise (1991) Thelma & Louise is a pop fantasy with a viewpoint rooted in the kind of everyday reality that Hollywood routinely denies, playing fast and loose with the kind of masculine film conventions that have been long overdue for upsetting. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Feb 28, 2023
      3.5/5
      Tár (2022) Even by her usual high standards, Blanchett’s acting here is mesmerising, bringing to life a character who is not only charismatic, highly intelligent and passionate about music, but also bafflingly devious and egoistic to the nth degree. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Dec 22, 2022
      Groundhog Day (1993) That it works so entertainingly is a tribute to an ingenious script -- which gradually turns the film into an unconventional romantic comedy and, almost miraculously, never runs out of steam -- and to a pair of very likable performances. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Dec 21, 2022
      Postcards From the Edge (1990) "Postcards" won't solve the fundamental dilemmas of human existence, but it passes the time agreeably. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Nov 02, 2022
      Dances With Wolves (1990) On paper, Dances with Wolves looks like another Heaven's Gate... But not only has this epic successfully disinterred a long-buried genre, it's a triumph on all levels that establishes Costner as a born film-maker. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Nov 02, 2022
      The Quiet Girl (2022) Visually the film is striking and sometimes breathtaking. Writer-director Colm Bairéad is clearly a major talent. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Oct 03, 2022
      Addams Family Values (1993) Addams Family Values is a slick, witty and mischievous delight, and one of those rare sequels which surpasses its predecessor. Not that the latter was a difficult task. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Sep 22, 2022
      4/5
      True Things (2021) Ruth Wilson gives a riveting performance... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Aug 26, 2022
      3.5/5
      The Forgiven (2021) Ralph Fiennes is back in the desert in a film that combines a serious moral with caustic humour. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jul 29, 2022
      Diva (1981) I was no opera fan at the time, indeed had found that musical form somewhat alienating, and yet after being mesmerised by the aria performed by soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez near the start of the film, the barriers began to melt. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jul 29, 2022
      Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Tandy and Freeman give performances of splendid depth and restraint that are matched by Beresford's admirably light directorial touch and the sumptuous cinematography of Australian Peter James. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Jul 25, 2022
      The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022) For follow-up viewing, turn to the hour-long documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, which shows the real Martha to have been an even more colourful personality than the one portrayed by [Julia] Roberts. Which is really saying something... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jul 25, 2022
      Falling for Figaro (2020) It’s no surprise that Lumley is absolutely fabulous and will draw most of the audience, but it’s Macdonald who makes the biggest impression. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jul 25, 2022
      3.5/5
      Official Competition (2021) I’d call Official Competition’s satire wryly amusing rather than belly-laugh producing, but no complaints from this quarter -- that’s exactly the tone the directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat are going for, and they pull it off very nicely indeed. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jun 23, 2022
      3.5/5
      Maigret (2022) Helping enormously is the casting of Gérard Depardieu in the lead role -- an icon of the French cinema playing a leading fictional icon whose physical appearance is just right. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 26, 2022
      Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015) If you ever wondered what led Putin to mount an invasion, here is a crucial part of the story. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 02, 2022
      The Bombardment (2021) If you think you can handle the confronting subject matter, this is thoughtfully made and worth a watch. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 02, 2022
      Black Crab (2022) The action is often bloody but unfailingly tense and gripping. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 02, 2022
      River (2021) The name Jennifer Peedom won’t raise many nods of recognition outside the film industry...but her outstanding documentary films set in the wilds of the natural world should see her more widely recognised as among Australia’s finest filmmakers now working. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Mar 25, 2022
      The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Ultimately, though, what makes Lambs so uncommonly effective is not what it shows but what it suggests about humanity. You have been warned. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Mar 22, 2022
      Lost Illusions (2021) It’s a splendidly involving tale full of thematic parallels to today’s world of fake news and corrupt and immoral media... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Mar 21, 2022
      Petite Maman (2021) It is a splendid example of how to use a fertile imagination to create a spell over the viewer despite extremely limited resources. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Mar 21, 2022
      4/5
      The Duke (2020) Enticing viewers to chuckle or guffaw can be hard, though the best comic actors make it look deceptively simple. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Mar 07, 2022
      The Lost Daughter (2021) the romance of the setting is undermined by the harshness of the human behaviour it places under the microscope... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2022
      West Side Story (2021) Lead actors Ansel Elgort as Tony and the previously unknown Rachel Zegler as Maria sing, dance and act magnificently. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Dec 22, 2021
      Licorice Pizza (2021) I'm not sure if I really believed in Gary as a character, though I went along for the ride anyway. At least it took us somewhere different. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Dec 22, 2021
      King Richard (2021) The film is gripping and relentlessly entertaining, especially in its early sequences... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Dec 22, 2021
      Delicious (2021) The film is imbued with gentle humour and an unpredictable story, even if its conjecture about the invention of the modern restaurant - which happened in Paris, not in the countryside - is cheekily fanciful. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Dec 22, 2021
      4.5/5
      Belfast (2021) With one foot in warm nostalgia, the other in grey ugliness and violent threats, Belfast maintains a fine balance between the two. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Dec 17, 2021
      Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude doesn't so much tear up the standard rule book of feature film construction as dangle it over the balcony by its ankles - before letting go. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Nov 30, 2021
      5/5
      The Worst Person in the World (2021) The only bad thing about this intimate romantic drama from rising Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier is that its title, if taken literally, is somewhat misleading. Other than that, it's a beauty. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Nov 30, 2021
      Greyhound (2020) Although designed for cinemas, this story about an Allied convoy trying to survive a pack of U-Boats mid-Atlantic grips from the word go, even while inevitably losing the immersive effect it would have enjoyed on a huge screen. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Nov 29, 2021
      3.5/5
      Buckley's Chance (2021) A likable family entertainment. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jul 01, 2021
      Cousins (2021) The film is surprisingly approachable, which is not to say it's entirely unflawed. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2021
      4/5
      My Name Is Gulpilil (2021) This is not a conventional documentary so much as a very personal celebration of this man's brilliant career and multiple talents. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 28, 2021
      Ema (2019) You may love it or hate it or find yourself conflicted. You probably won't forget it easily. - sbs.com.au
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2021
      Heroic Losers (2019) This may be a familiar formula, but the result is nonetheless funny, ingeniously plotted and with plenty of charm and energy. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2021
      2.5/5
      Supernova (2020) The performances are marvellously subtle but the film often feels soporific. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted May 05, 2021
      Schindler's List (1993) Steven Zaillian's ingeniously structured script presents the unpalatable in a way it can be digested -- by hooking it into a powerful, almost mythical story about a man who becomes a hero almost in spite of himself. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2021
      The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) In context, however, there's enough character building for these concerns to fade away, and while there's no denying this is at heart a traditional legal melodrama, it's a stirring one with the great Frank Langella in typically fine mettle... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Mar 19, 2021
      News of the World (2020) Because he so often doesn't appear to be acting, in my book, a compliment, many overlook just how varied Hanks's roles can be and how accomplished he is as a performer... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Mar 19, 2021
      Wayne's World (1992) Totally non-bogus and excellent! Sorry. It's catching. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Mar 10, 2021
      3.5/5
      Nomadland (2020) Fern hits the road in her mobile home initially to pick up work in a gargantuan Amazon warehouse, a symbol of 21st-century postmodernity as dehumanising as any 19th-century cotton mill or factory. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Feb 26, 2021
      A Sun (2019) Not only is the film visually outstanding, but it takes us on a most unpredictable narrative journey where characters who seem initially unsympathetic finally come to be people we genuinely care for. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jan 09, 2021
      37 Seconds (2019) Mei Kayama [gives] an authentic and genuinely touching performance. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Jan 09, 2021
      The Joy Luck Club (1993) The Joy Luck Club is an extraordinarily ambitious attempt at examining the lives of three generations of Chinese women in both China and the United States that somehow works like a dream. - Sydney Morning Herald
      Read More | Posted Dec 17, 2020
      4.5/5
      The Father (2020) How could this new UK production, directed and co-written by Frenchman Florian Zeller from his own play, possibly emulate [Sarah Polley's 2006 drama, Away from Her] or find anything new to say? Here is how. By switching the point of view. - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Nov 25, 2020
      3/5
      Misbehaviour (2020) ...while the film is energetic, often amusing and accurate about the era's often alarming prejudices, it also gets entangled in didacticism and self-consciousness... - Limelight
      Read More | Posted Nov 20, 2020
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