The Age (Australia)
Tomatometer-approved publication
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3.5/5
Vox Lux (2018)
But unlike many show-off stylists, [Corbet] rarely becomes monotonous, thanks to his dedication to catching the audience off-guard.
Posted Feb 20, 2019
2
2.5/5
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
3
2.5/5
Escape Room (2019)
4
4/5
Glass (2019)
[Glass] will be best appreciated by audiences who value playfulness and imagination over restrictive notions of logic, plausibility and good taste.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
5
3/5
Skate Kitchen (2018)
At best, though, Skate Kitchen is less about trying to get anywhere or make sense of anything than it is about the casual joy of being young, free and immersed in the moment.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
6
3/5
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
7
Pick of the Litter (2018)
Viewers of all ages with a fondness for puppies will find it hard to resist.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
8
Instant Family (2018)
Director Sean Anders...manages to maintain an upbeat tone without wholly glossing over some tricky, painful topics.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
9
The Funhouse (1981)
[Tobe Hooper] shows both his range and his thematic consistency in this luscious, morbid 1981 fairytale.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
10
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
A degree of sweetness and innocence is maintained despite some remarkably lewd jokes.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
11
Psycho (1960)
A brilliant technical exercise, an intimate character study, and the ultimate variant on the premise "boy meets girl."
Posted Jan 11, 2019
12
West of Sunshine (2017)
As epitaphs go, it's close to perfect.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
13
Jirga (2018)
The strain of making it sometimes shows, but [Jirga] is a quite remarkable piece of work all the same.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
14
Upgrade (2018)
It's funny, violent and full of ideas.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
15
Cargo (2018)
Susie Porter, Anthony Hayes and David Gulpilil are among the excellent supporting cast in an uncommonly thoughtful spin on the genre.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
16
Strange Colours (2018)
17
Ghosthunter (2018)
It's a remarkable journey into a deeply scarred life, an empathetic exploration that stays just this side of exploitation.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
18
Gurrumul (2017)
The music is stunning, and so too are the glimpses of the traditional culture that made him so reluctant to trade Elcho Island for the wider world.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
19
Brothers' Nest (2018)
There's much to enjoy in this darkly comic update of Cain and Abel.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
20
Sweet Country (2018)
Indigenous actor Hamilton Morris is quietly magnificent in his first screen role.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
21
Roma (2018)
A political protest, an emergency at a hospital and a dramatic beach scene achieve the seemingly impossible balance of being intimate and grand.
Posted Dec 28, 2018
22
3.5/5
Holmes and Watson (2018)
Holmes and Watson is not for everybody, but if you want to see Ferrell off the leash this is the best opportunity in a long time.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
23
Springsteen on Broadway (2018)
24
3.5/5
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
25
3/5
Kusama: Infinity (2018)
This is exactly what Kusama herself would wish: preserving her mystery isn't the worst way of doing her justice.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
26
2/5
Bumblebee (2018)
While Bumblebee has evidently been designed as a film that adults and children can enjoy on different levels, this risks leaving both somewhat unsatisfied.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
27
3/5
Maleficent (2014)
28
3/5
Peppermint (2018)
From a broader perspective, the film marks an intriguing new stage in Hollywood's ongoing effort to figure out what action movies about women (and aimed at them) should look like.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
29
2.5/5
Like the very knowing writing, these visual pyrotechnics are underwritten by a sense of strain, as if someone somewhere were terrified of viewers losing interest.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
30
2.5/5
Second Act (2018)
The film even has something to say, at least glancingly, about class prejudice in the real world, although in true Hollywood fashion the message is paradoxical.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
31
2.5/5
Elliot The Littlest Reindeer (2018)
32
3.5/5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
33
4/5
Lean on Pete (2018)
This is a film that succeeds in holding all its elements in balance - and in doing so, arrives at a depth of feeling that isn't commonplace at all.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
34
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
35
1.5/5
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
The result is a novelty item without much in the way of novelty, at least for anyone old enough to recognise the sources.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
36
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
37
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
38
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Irvin Kerschner's stylish 1978 paranormal thriller has a premise ahead of its time.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
39
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
40
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
41
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
42
43
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
44
3/5
Penguin Highway (2019)
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
45
2/5
Suspiria (2018)
46
Wildlife (2018)
47
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
48
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
49
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
50
3.5/5
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)