Matching Jack Reviews

David Michael Brown
Empire Magazine Australasia
August 22, 2010
Beautifully played and powerfully moving, despite the sugary clichs.
Full Review | Original Score: 3
Jason Di Rosso
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
August 20, 2010
Lynne Renew and David Parker's script is based on a wonderful premise, but the resulting film is uneven, straddling adult drama and family-friendly tear-jerker without doing either well.
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Julie Rigg
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
August 20, 2010
It's melodrama, but powerful, with insights into the way cancer changes lives. I howled. Take Kleenex.
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Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
August 20, 2010
Having begun as a well-meaning but uneven mix of medical melodrama and fraught love story with whimsical accessories, it finally locates its heartbeat.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
August 20, 2010
The very moments that the film goes wilfully off-topic prove to be its undoing.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Peter Galvin
sbs.com.au
August 19, 2010
Matching Jack has a squirmy kind of emotional truth to it. It's funny, but it's not a comedy.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
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Jake Wilson
The Age (Australia)
August 19, 2010
If Matching Jack were a telemovie, I'd be tempted to switch off.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
James Mitchell
Trespass
August 17, 2010
Matching Jack's conclusion is a hopeful one (some may say thankfully) but it's much too tidy and rushed, a pure cookie-cutter Hollywood happy ending that betrays the realistic, at times poignant portrayal of childhood terminal illness that came before it.
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Erin Free
FILMINK (Australia)
August 16, 2010
While its premise is a painful one, this warm, surprisingly funny and deeply touching film never feels maudlin.
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
August 13, 2010
A gripping melodrama that explores a complex set of relationships amidst the intensity of deadly illness
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Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile
August 13, 2010
Eliciting superb performances from her lead actors, Tass delivers a potent drama about human relationships and vulnerabilities
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Margaret Pomeranz
At the Movies (Australia)
August 11, 2010
This is the first feature Nadia Tass has directed since Amy in 1998, and she brings great sensitivity to a moving story.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)
August 11, 2010
There's a lot to appreciate in a film which is really about the very basics -- life, love and death.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5