The Age (Australia)
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
The movie is at its best in the exchanges between Redford and Sissy Spacek as Jewel.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
2
If.... (1968)
Making his debut in the lead role, Malcolm McDowell displays the charisma he would bring to A Clockwork Orange...and the ending still packs a punch.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
3
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Irvin Kerschner's stylish 1978 paranormal thriller has a premise ahead of its time.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
4
In the Mood for Love (2001)
The settings are wilfully drab - narrow corridors, cramped apartments - yet the fragmentary, richly coloured images are dazzling.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
5
Rada Jude's behind-the-scenes drama tackles the charged subject of historical atrocity at one remove, with the grim wit that is a hallmark of recent Romanian cinema.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
6
Mary Poppins (1964)
As the magical nanny who turns life upside down for her charges in Edwardian England, Julie Andrews maintains a stiff upper lip that dries out some of the Disney schmaltz.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
7
8
I Confess (1952)
For a believing Christian, thoughts can be as sinful as deeds...This powerful 1953 melodrama makes the point in an explicitly religious context.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
9
3/5
Penguin Highway (2018)
For viewers of Aoyama's age this could be a film that lingers in the mind for years to come, like the half-memory of a strange but pleasant dream.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
10
2/5
Suspiria (2018)
11
Wildlife (2018)
12
Dear Diary (Caro diario) (1994)
An ideal introduction to Moretti's work, this 1993 pseudo-documentary is weightier than it appears, a symbolic autobiography rather than a literal one.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
13
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Robert Altman's wintry 1971 anti-Western gives Warren Beatty one of his best roles as the doomed gambler McCabe: boastful, shy, foolish, altogether lovable.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
14
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The upshot is a perfect Alfred Hitchcock thriller...with a ingenious plot taken from a Patricia Highsmith novel and a memorably seductive villain.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
15
3.5/5
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
16
3/5
Charming (2018)
The probable outcome is obvious, but so are the satirical possibilities, and the jokes hit more often than they miss.
Posted Oct 31, 2018
17
2.5/5
Hunter Killer (2018)
18
2/5
Ghost Stories (2018)
It's a letdown to find that there's nothing at the bottom of a box of tricks which in themselves are not as clever as they could have been.
Posted Oct 29, 2018
19
Pig (The Pig) (2018)
Wild satire isn't what we've been taught to expect from Iranian cinema, but Mani Haghighi...kicks off the restraints in this tale of a celebrated but blacklisted director.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
20
Halloween (1978)
21
Stage Fright (1950)
This 1950 thriller is minor only by the standards of genius.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
22
2.5/5
Halloween (2018)
23
2.5/5
Beautiful Boy (2018)
24
1.5/5
25
26
The Sound of Music (1965)
It's totally schmaltzy and highly effective.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
27
Wreck-it Ralph (2012)
28
Rope (1948)
29
3.5/5
The Cleaners (2018)
The Cleaners is a riveting piece of work, prompting reflection on a whole range of big, urgent questions.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
30
3/5
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
31
Keeping the viewer almost as much in the dark as the heroine, this 2008 puzzler from the talented Lucrecia Martel (Zama) is a challenge worth taking up.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
32
Breathless (1961)
A hip, jokey thriller in which the sketchy plot serves as an excuse for stylistic flourishes and philosophical asides.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
33
North by Northwest (1959)
Nearly getting killed never looked like so much fun.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
34
Artists and Models (1955)
A masterpiece far ahead of its time.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
35
2.5/5
A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
Ultimately, there is something distasteful about this approach ― especially as the stylistic bravura seems calculated to leave minimal room for thought.
Posted Oct 4, 2018
36
Venom (2018)
Venom has been unleashed. Infection has entered the system. The blockbuster bloat is spreading.
Posted Oct 4, 2018
37
1.5/5
Harmony (2018)
This amateurish local try at a fantasy for teenagers is a transparently bad movie, but bad in a disorientating, vaguely psychedelic way, obeying laws peculiarly its own.
Posted Oct 2, 2018
38
Zama (2018)
39
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The whole thing depends on Newman's blue eyes, easy grin, and ability to appear charismatic but never cocky.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
40
Typically for this team, the script champions individual rights over nationalist prejudices that endure beyond the grave.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
41
Spellbound (1945)
Today this seems above all a forward-thinking portrait of a woman battling for authority in a man's world.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
42
4/5
Ultimately, the film functions the same way these cartoons do, through exaggeration and metaphor.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
43
2.5/5
Night School (2018)
44
Ghosthunter (2018)
Truth, in this case, really does turn out to be stranger than fiction - and more troubling and fascinating to boot.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
45
Get Out (2017)
This brilliantly provocative first feature from comic turned writer-director Jordan Peele proves that the best way to get satire to a mass audience is to call it horror.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
46
Pinocchio (1940)
This 1940 Disney adaptation of Carlo Collodi's novel...combin[es] comedy, pathos and nightmare in a free, rapid, genuinely imaginative way.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
47
4/5
Ladies in Black (2018)
48
2/5
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
49
3/5
The Hollywood Teen Titans Go! initially looks more progressive than its real-life counterpart - but the climax gives this a rather different spin.
Posted Sep 17, 2018
50
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)