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An emotional film where Toni Collette gets to show her impressive range.
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Collette's pitch-perfect performance and the stunning evocation of the forbidding and beautiful outback make this film unexpectedly rewarding. Sep 29, 2017 | Full Review…
Collette's pitch-perfect performance and the stunning evocation of the forbidding and beautiful outback make this film unexpectedly rewarding.
Richard Porton
An underdeveloped film that requires all of [Collette's] ample skills merely to rise to the mediocre. Aug 20, 2004 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
An underdeveloped film that requires all of [Collette's] ample skills merely to rise to the mediocre.
Peter Howell
Lots of pictures begin strongly only to lose their focus; this one gains momentum with every sequence -- ambivalent at first, we're firmly hooked by the final frame. Aug 20, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Lots of pictures begin strongly only to lose their focus; this one gains momentum with every sequence -- ambivalent at first, we're firmly hooked by the final frame.
Rick Groen
Tsunashima gives a deft performance in a role that starts out as caricature but becomes full-bodied. Collette commands the screen virtually the entire time. Aug 7, 2004
Tsunashima gives a deft performance in a role that starts out as caricature but becomes full-bodied. Collette commands the screen virtually the entire time.
Peter Rainer
It's powerful, but fatally contrived Jun 2, 2004 | Full Review…
It's powerful, but fatally contrived
James Christopher
Tender, original and moving. May 18, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Tender, original and moving.
Nev Pierce
A beautiful piece of filmmaking with top notch acting... Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
A beautiful piece of filmmaking with top notch acting...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Despite an uninspiring first half, the film delivers a strong emotional impact in its final reels.** Aug 23, 2004 | Full Review…
Despite an uninspiring first half, the film delivers a strong emotional impact in its final reels.**
Angela Baldassarre
A heartbreaking and complex film about human relationships. Aug 20, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
A heartbreaking and complex film about human relationships.
Liz Braun
Mixing cultural comedy, survival tension, unlikely romance and an extreme about turn, it's a moving and unusual film. Jul 16, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Mixing cultural comedy, survival tension, unlikely romance and an extreme about turn, it's a moving and unusual film.
Harry Guerin
A raw emotional journey in which character is everything -- although the scenery is spectacular. Jun 4, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
A raw emotional journey in which character is everything -- although the scenery is spectacular.
Angie Errigo
Japanese Story gives Australian actress Toni Collette a chance to demonstrate the full range of her acting skills in a cross-cultural tale filled with many surprises. May 28, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Japanese Story gives Australian actress Toni Collette a chance to demonstrate the full range of her acting skills in a cross-cultural tale filled with many surprises.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Toni Collette is one of those hot old chicks that I can't say no to. The movie was fun, I like Aussie stuff. She makes a good Aussie with her bad teeth and leathery skin. Moral of the story: don't go swimming in Australia?
Super Reviewer
It's a very nice movie to get if you're in a foreign romance movie kinda mood. I didn't think the story in itself was amazing but it was worth the watch.
Love Japanese Horror, This was not a Horror flix in anyway, But I screamed as loud as any Horror Flix I ever saw, Pretty boring, not sure how it got on my rental list but will not be on my to buy list. Nice Australian scenes
Great drama and breathtaking views of the Australian desert landscape are compacted. Toni Collette now has a very beautiful sexy body in her brief naked scene since she was once little fat in Muriel's Wedding. She has never been better than as the abrasive geologist sparring with Tsunashima's shell-shocked visitor. Yes, that scene with her traumatised character still raises hairs on the neck.
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