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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
Breath (2017) Nick Dent There's a lot to admire here. [Simon] Baker finds an analogy for Winton's poetic prose in the ocean's undulations and the silent sanctuary of the undersea.... But the movie is blissed out on its own mojo.
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
Jungle (2017) Nick Dent Radcliffe throws himself wholeheartedly into the physical demands of this role and the result is a harrowing journey from which it's hard to glean much optimism. The boy might live, but what will be left of him?
Posted Nov 16, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Nick Dent Rupert Wyatt delivers on the giddy pleasures - climbing, leaping, swinging, plus the irresistable high of an upward-rushing learning curve.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) Nick Dent This is the low-temperature family romp that Happy Feet 2 should have been.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
August: Osage County (2013) Nick Dent Still, as a story of dysfunctionality begetting dyfunctionality, it packs a blackly funny punch, and Streep's performance is a thing to behold: a venomous arachnid at the centre of a web of familial cruelty.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Adore (2013) Nick Dent Christopher Hampton's pared-back screenplay and Christophe Beaucarne's ravishing lensmanship locate the action in a reality that is only a blink away from the simmering landscape of the unconscious.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
2/5
Cut Snake (2014) Nick Dent Its title suggests a hint of madness: instead, it's utterly conventional and lacking in fangs.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Submarine (2010) Nick Dent [Submarine] is a wry coming-of-age comedy.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
The Curse Of The Gothic Symphony (2011) Nick Dent Ultimately the film is a testament to moxie of the arts scene in the Sunshine State.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
The Railway Man (2013) Nick Dent This is an effective story of war, peace, forgiveness and revenge.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Charlie's Country (2013) Nick Dent There are laughs here as well as moments of devastation, thankfully, and genuine joy.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
2/5
Parental Guidance (2012) Nick Dent It's about how grandparents are important even though they say weird things and make bad jokes and try to get you excited about boring things, like baseball.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Mental (2012) Nick Dent There are unusual rewards for viewers willing to climb ev'ry mountain with this deranged guide.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Jasper Jones (2017) Nick Dent Devotees of the novel will find this a faithful rendering.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
2/5
Battleship (2012) Nick Dent Battleship is logic-free Michael Bay-style fodder where nothing's at stake and even the jingoism is hard to take seriously. Everyone loses.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
The Great Gatsby (2013) Nick Dent [Gatsby] is a canonical tale given a fresh spin.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) Nick Dent Parents will smirk at the cameos from King Tut, Agamemnon and Marie Antoinette, while kids will be kept spellbound and accidentally learn a few useful facts too.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
A Chinese Tale (2011) Nick Dent This sweet little tragicomedy about life's absurdities plays out as a buddy movie in which two damaged men from opposite sides of the world find unexpected common ground.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Predestination (2014) Nick Dent This is cerebral sci-fi with a strong emotional undertow, largely thanks to Snook, who gives a heart-tugging performance as the gender-addled person of mystery.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
The Infinite Man (2014) Nick Dent Rather than sci-fi head trips, the movie is about the self-defeating nature of jealousy in relationships, with Sullivan's facility for deadpan, screwball dialogue making it an unexpected delight.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
That Sugar Film (2014) Nick Dent The documentary will certainly appeal to kids with its colour, movement, clarity and humour. Adults, meanwhile, will take pause at the knowledge that the food industry has exploited our hard-wired love for sweet things to sell us unhealthy products.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Backtrack (2015) Nick Dent Schlock it may be, and sticklers will complain about plot holes, but there's no denying the mood of dread conjured up here, nor the strength of the performances.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) Nick Dent At more than the two hours, The Five-Year Engagement outstays its welcome like a drunken, microphone-hogging best man.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Hounds of Love (2016) Nick Dent Subtexts aside, Hounds of Love is also an expert exercise in suspense, taut as the wire of a Hills Hoist.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Helter Skelter (2012) Nick Dent Themes of the transience of fame and its corrosive effects on the soul are as clear as mud, but Ninagawa can't help fetishising her star's doll-like beauty.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Ruben Guthrie (2015) Nick Dent It's all a bit low stakes,
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Wide Open Sky (2015) Nick Dent It's the sight of kids having their horizons expanded that uplifts the most.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Not Suitable for Children (2012) Nick Dent You'll laugh all the way to the sperm bank.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
The Little Death (2014) Nick Dent This debut feature deftly weaves together a host of surreal scenarios into a consistently funny and surprising package, as performed by a top-notch cast that includes stage luminaries Kate Mulvany and Damon Herriman.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Wolf Creek 2 (2013) Nick Dent The tension is non-stop and the dialogue, fiendishly good.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
52 Tuesdays (2013) Nick Dent [Fifty-Two Tuesdays] is the rare Australian film that actually has something to say.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
These Final Hours (2013) Nick Dent These Final Hours sets up a simple redemption tale and convincingly stages mass panic on the sunny streets of Perth.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
1/5
A Few Less Men (2016) Nick Dent Watching this gives new meaning the phrase 'cultural cringe'.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017) Nick Dent The best scenes reteam him with Margaret Pomeranz, as they recount highlights from their 28-year on-screen partnership. Their easy chemistry is a reminder of what we've lost.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Pawno (2015) Nick Dent As a portrait of contemporary Australia, it's an antidote to just about everything else out there.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
3/5
Berlin Syndrome (2017) Nick Dent [Berlin] promises an unforgettable journey, but delivers only a slideshow.
Posted Sep 27, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Ali's Wedding (2017) Nick Dent Ali's Wedding by contrast gets its big laughs from authentic insights into the complexity and contradictions inherent in Islamic communities, with a wisdom about human nature that hits a universal sweet spot.
Posted Sep 26, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Looking for Grace (2015) Nick Dent Brooks' screenplay is wryly funny about human behaviour, keenly observing the awkward ways anxious people rub up against each other.
Posted Sep 26, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
That's Not Me (2017) Nick Dent Foulcher, meanwhile, conveys low self-esteem with the comedic flair of a Kristin Wiig.
Posted Sep 26, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Marvel's the Avengers (2012) Nick Dent Whedon keeps the whole thing aloft with pizzazz -- you expect it to crash to earth like Fury's flying aircraft carrier, but somehow it never does.
Posted Apr 25, 2012  Edit critic review
Mad Bastards (2011) Andrew Fuhrmann The story arc is a cringingly facile story of redemption which, but for the curious ghost of reality behind it, would have been pretty forgettable.
Posted May 05, 2011  Edit critic review
3/5
Tron: Legacy (2010) Nick Dent What unfolds is your typical chase-and-rescue scenario, all just colour and movement, but with a rock-out score by Daft Punk and a genuinely bright patch in the high-camp form of Castor (Michael Sheen).
Posted Dec 13, 2010  Edit critic review
3/5
The Loved Ones (2009) Nick Dent The savagery here has no redeeming social value and the characters are not especially interesting, but who cares when the terror is this relentless?
Posted Oct 25, 2010  Edit critic review
4/5
Easy A (2010) Nick Dent Come in Lindsay Lohan: your time is up. Ever since you went off the rails we've been on the lookout for a feisty, freckled ranga with a straight-bourbon voice and killer comic timing, and we've found her in the form of Emma Stone.
Posted Sep 15, 2010  Edit critic review
3/5
Trash Humpers (2009) Emily Cheng Viewers unfamiliar with Korine's alternative style of filmmaking may walk out in disgust. But if you're willing to broaden your cinematic expectations to include the utterly random, it's a must-see.
Posted Sep 09, 2010  Edit critic review
2/5
Salt (2010) Nick Dent Phillip Noyce directs Kurt Wimmer's script, which rockets along with chase sequences and confounds with double-crosses but it can't hide its essentially facile nature.
Posted Aug 16, 2010  Edit critic review
5/5
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Jonathon Valenzuela Potentially the most fun movie to come out this year -- a kinetic epic that both stands for and gently lampoons the generation it came from. Superheroes should be so lucky to get this treatment.
Posted Aug 10, 2010  Edit critic review
3/5
Predators (2010) Nick Dent It's a return to the suspenseful, high-velocity form of the original Predator.
Posted Jul 06, 2010  Edit critic review
2/5
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) Nick Dent Girl, just pick the werewolf now so we can all go home.
Posted Jul 01, 2010  Edit critic review
3/5
Kick-Ass (2010) Nick Dent Kick-Ass seems to have cult hit written all over it, except that in this interactive age, cults have gone mainstream. The box office should be massive.
Posted Apr 14, 2010  Edit critic review
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