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Craig Mathieson

Craig Mathieson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s obviously stage-bound, but nonetheless sharp in content and execution.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “The strewn breadcrumbs are very large, leaving little space for the fetid contemplation a great police corruption thriller needs. Sentimentality should never win out.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Trap House (2025) 52% 2.5/5 EDIT “Bautista gives his all, but the same cannot be said for Bobby Cannavale as Ray’s partner, Andre Washburn. His performance is boilerplate.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s a story open to the syrupy and the sentimental, and it can’t quite escape the formulaic, despite an overqualified supporting cast...giving their all to the reconciliation dynamic underpinning the plot.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Shiva Baby (2020) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The independent film is deeply funny, but plays like a thriller – you never know when Danielle might snap. Sennott is terrific, with reactions that are revelatory.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “Sometimes, the dialogue he recounts has a sitcom banter to it, but the laughs have a genuine persistence.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Great Flood (2025) 56% 3/5 EDIT “Kim Byung-woo’s film doesn’t relent, but its unexpected plot twists are not fully satisfying.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Murder in Monaco (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “The narrative’s entertaining momentum is vivid and eventually uncertain – Usry finishes by reconsidering all he’s presented.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Is it nepotism when a film’s director casts his dog in the lead role? Thankfully, it works in this high-concept supernatural thriller...” – The Age (Australia) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Bump: A Christmas Film (2025) 3/5 EDIT “The movie has a posthumous, pleasurable energy, worthy of a tale where chaos and comfort were everyday realities.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “It tries to squeeze too much into 50 minutes, but it’s genuine where it matters.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Love+War (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Ultimately, the good outweighs the makeweight, especially as Addario is a striking personality with a history intertwined through too many of this century’s wars.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Playdate (2025) 23% 3.5/5 EDIT “The final act loses steam, but there’s comic lunacy here worthy of MacGruber.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “When you’re remaking a film as good as Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy,...the best you can hope for is a timely update that has its own tenor. Transposed from New York City to Seattle, Andrew Ahn’s film mostly achieves those benchmarks.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “The machinations, like the camera’s movement, are elegant.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 7, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% 3/5 EDIT “It’s smart, but also entertaining – Polly’s plotting is comprehensive and crazy.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a flawed, intriguing film, and no matter the moment, Berger is determined to deliver more. ” – The Age (Australia) Oct 29, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Bigelow (Point Break, Zero Dark Thirty) is the ideal director for this story. Her visual technique is masterful, constantly compressing detail and capturing intimate responses. ” – The Age (Australia) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “[Cillian Murphy's] turmoil is magnetic, but the storytelling can be explanatory and sometimes the overt technique of Belgian director Tim Mielants (Small Things Like These) is skilful but distancing. ” – The Age (Australia) Oct 16, 2025 Full Review One More Shot (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a modest success, never tempting overindulgence.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 2.5/5 EDIT “You’d expect nothing less from director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy), but the immersive visuals are undercut by shallow storytelling...and a refusal to acknowledge the climate changes making bushfires ever more savage.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (2023) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Now that Nick Cave’s career as one of Australia’s pre-eminent musicians is well into its sixth decade, this thorough documentary on his late 1970s breakthrough band, The Birthday Party, serves as a telling primer. ” – The Age (Australia) Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The moral twists that follow...have a simmer, but as soon as the plot moves onto the city’s streets the energy, in both the performances and Lee’s almost joyous camera moves, goes up a satisfying notch.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% 3/5 EDIT “A psychological thriller fashioned as a bleak coming-of-age story, this adaptation by author Ottessa Moshfegh and her husband, Luke Goebel, of her breakthrough 2015 novel, works hard to capture the mordant detail and interior unease of the text.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (2025) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “While it lacks wider, illuminating detail about the insular community, the feature-length documentary’s participants are given not only a voice, but also the chance to consider what they were truly part of.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 11, 2025 Full Review
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