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Mystery Road evokes classic Westerns while using its Australian outback setting to delve into a surprisingly layered -- and powerfully impactful -- array of social issues.
All Critics (34) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (3)
Director Ivan Sen's fourth feature evokes old westerns, Polanski's Chinatown and other noir classics, but still feels grounded in the dust and dried blood of the Australian soil. Aug 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Director Ivan Sen's fourth feature evokes old westerns, Polanski's Chinatown and other noir classics, but still feels grounded in the dust and dried blood of the Australian soil.
Leslie Felperin
As a straight-up, "Law & Order"-esque criminal investigation, it's watchable. But lingering shots and half-baked racial commentary overstate the importance of "Mystery Road." Mar 31, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
As a straight-up, "Law & Order"-esque criminal investigation, it's watchable. But lingering shots and half-baked racial commentary overstate the importance of "Mystery Road."
Jay Boller
Mystery Road's links to the classic Hollywood western are as obvious as its hero's cowboy boots and white hat but they do nothing to diminish its Australianness. Dec 17, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Mystery Road's links to the classic Hollywood western are as obvious as its hero's cowboy boots and white hat but they do nothing to diminish its Australianness.
Sandra Hall
A work of evocative suggestion and concrete detail, a film that uses the genre trappings of the western and the thriller to explore a complex story of crime and indifference. Dec 17, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
A work of evocative suggestion and concrete detail, a film that uses the genre trappings of the western and the thriller to explore a complex story of crime and indifference.
Philippa Hawker
I won't lie and say Mystery Road kept me on the edge of my seat for its duration, but there is a lot to enjoy in its delicately peeled back layers. Jun 27, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
I won't lie and say Mystery Road kept me on the edge of my seat for its duration, but there is a lot to enjoy in its delicately peeled back layers.
Jared Mobarak
This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback. Sep 1, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback.
Rich Cline
Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene - social, racial and economic. Aug 31, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene - social, racial and economic.
Mark Kermode
A superior and taut outback adventure, you'd have to go back to Samson and Delilah to find an Australian feature this bonsa. Aug 29, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A superior and taut outback adventure, you'd have to go back to Samson and Delilah to find an Australian feature this bonsa.
Tara Brady
Slow-burning but very powerful. Aug 29, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Slow-burning but very powerful.
Geoffrey Macnab
Aaron Pendersen is thoroughly believable as the conflicted Jay and the blasted landscape is photographed so well you'll be sweating and swatting the flies away from your own face after 10 mins. Aug 29, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Aaron Pendersen is thoroughly believable as the conflicted Jay and the blasted landscape is photographed so well you'll be sweating and swatting the flies away from your own face after 10 mins.
George Byrne
Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback. Aug 29, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback.
Kate Muir
Mystery Road may be set in modern Queensland but it has the feel of a flinty, slow-burning western as one stetson-wearing lawman stands against an entire community. Aug 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Mystery Road may be set in modern Queensland but it has the feel of a flinty, slow-burning western as one stetson-wearing lawman stands against an entire community.
Allan Hunter
Indeed a slow-burning thriller. Not quite up to my taste, though.
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