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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.
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Slow-burning but very powerful. August 29, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Slow-burning but very powerful.
Geoffrey Macnab
Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback. August 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
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. August 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
This sand-blasted Aussie murder mystery tinkers with genre convention while managing to remain sincere and thrilling. August 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
This sand-blasted Aussie murder mystery tinkers with genre convention while managing to remain sincere and thrilling.
Anton Bitel
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." March 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. December 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
An exploration of racial tensions through a radically placed protagonist, as well as a rousing finale, compensate for the lack of narrative oomph. August 23, 2019 | Full Review…
An exploration of racial tensions through a radically placed protagonist, as well as a rousing finale, compensate for the lack of narrative oomph.
Nicholas Bell
Huge skies, low horizons, glowing orange sunsets and a depiction of a culture and environment we rarely see in genre mystery movies make Mystery Road an unusual and thought-provoking film. June 4, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Huge skies, low horizons, glowing orange sunsets and a depiction of a culture and environment we rarely see in genre mystery movies make Mystery Road an unusual and thought-provoking film.
Alexa Dalby
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. June 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. September 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. August 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. August 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
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