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Nikki Gemmell

Nikki Gemmell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “No Other Choice is a wickedly funny lament for a kinder, gentler existence. It’s also ravishing to look at.” – The Australian Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s easy listening, easy watching. A sequin-saturated, warm and funny blast from the past with top notes of drama and tragedy. ” – The Australian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “Christy has the feel of a B-grade movie, a regular sports biopic, but a good one. It lacks the power of complex, surprising emotional storytelling because the filmmakers have to span decades, cramming in episodes from a busy life.” – The Australian Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “Moments of urgent narrative propulsion are flat. There’s little dramatic conflict. No grit. A tugging love story is buried in there somewhere but it’s been lost in translation. The entire production feels like it’s suffering from drama avoidance syndrome.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 4.5/5 EDIT “The film is fantastical yet grounded in moving truths, warm and heart tugging and laugh-out-loud witty. You exit its world with a glow of satisfaction.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 4/5 EDIT “Is this second half better than the first? No. But they’re part of a whole. Wicked will go down in history as one of the greatest films of the musical genre, and, refreshingly, with two females and their friendship central to the narrative.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “[If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is] a portrait of exhausted helplessness, as the film’s title so aptly suggests. I’d give this movie two stars, but Byrne’s monumental performance lifts it to three.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “This is an incendiary take [on motherhood], tender and terrible, and we don’t see this perspective enough in film.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The film is smart, warm and oh, so relatable. Terrifying too, but hopeful.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “Del Toro’s Frankenstein is an overlong, relentlessly violent and indulgent mash-up of the original. It takes the bare bones of Shelley’s story and kills its clear, clean clarity. ” – The Australian Oct 28, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 3.5/5 EDIT “This one isn’t among Guadagnino’s most resonant, but it’s a film of now; providing a corrective, perhaps, a rebuke to the recent past. It proves that nothing is black and white – or in terms of the oeuvre of a boldly compelling filmmaker, predictable.” – The Australian Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Homebound (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The film stands powerfully alongside Gallipoli, Withnail and I, Brokeback Mountain and Moonlight as a moving paean to the bindings of brotherhood.” – The Australian Oct 4, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 2/5 EDIT “This sequel feels as long as an extended guitar solo you did not ask for, in a concert that started two hours late.” – The Australian Oct 4, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “A sophisticated chase film, with added flavour of society breaking down, yet it’s not done as provocatively as Alex Garland’s Civil War.” – The Australian Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Kangaroo (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Kangaroo follows the predictable path of children’s films, but it’s elevated by the sheer force of its plucky personality, thanks to its dry-as-a-bone wit from scriptwriter Harry Cripps (The Dry, Penguin Bloom.)” – The Australian Sep 26, 2025 Full Review
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