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Frozen II
3AW
Jim Schembri
While not quite hitting the emotional peaks of Frozen, Frozen II comes close enough...In all, they've done a splendid job replicating the atmosphere and joy of the first film while developing the lore around its cast of beloved characters.
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Anna Karenina
3AW
Jim Schembri
Leo Tolstoy's classic tale of doomed romance and the emotionally stifling lives of Russian aristocrats gets an ornate, inert reworking...the congested setting makes much of the film look like a blur of costumes and set dressing.
2.5/5
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The Wind Rises
3AW
Jim Schembri
Hardcore fans of legendary Japanese anime maestro Hayao Miyazaki are likely to be the only ones to put much stock in the director's final film.
2/5
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Where to Invade Next
3AW
Jim Schembri
You might not have thought you would live this long but the latest documentary from controversial Michael Moore is not only a lot of fun, but quite uplifting. It also shows how, beneath all his bluster and cynicism, Moore has a deep love of country.
3/5
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Blade Runner 2049
3AW
Jim Schembri
Blade Runner 2049 is breathtakingly dull...It barely has enough story to cover a 90-minute film let alone one that runs 164...It's punishingly slow, the performances are sullen and dour; nobody seems interested in being there...the film is a visual bore.
1.5/5
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Enough Said
3AW
Jim Schembri
Enough Said is [director Nicole Holofcener's] best, most abrasive, yet touching film thus far. It's a knowing deep-dive into impulses that are stupid, fragile, selfish and deluded as two people try forming post-relationship relationships.
4/5
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The Death of Stalin
3AW
Jim Schembri
An incredibly funny film about a not-very-funny historical event.
3.5/5
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Movie 43
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's a full-scale disaster, a misfire of megalithic proportions that somehow managed to snare an A-list cast...The reviews have been so relentlessly acidic that it could acquire a so-bad-it's-fun mystique that turns it into a cult film.
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Jack and Diane
3AW
Jim Schembri
Good direction is hobbled by inexplicable flashes of horror, which add nothing to the story and stick out like clumsy art-movie affectations.
2.5/5
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Vivarium
3AW
Jim Schembri
A tight, whip-smart slice of slick Twilight Zonesque surrealism designed to unsettle and intrigue.
3/5
5
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The Addams Family
3AW
Jim Schembri
There's plenty of fun to be had with this snappy animated retread... there are enough confrontations and spook-based visual gags to make it an enjoyable, disposable jaunt with a timely and positive message about how best to shut down a bully.
3/5
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thankfully, this colourful, enjoyable lark is not a case of diminishing returns for this energetic troupe, the shift of scenery offering plenty of opportunities for the brand's signature style of animated slapstick
3/5
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At Eternity's Gate
3AW
Jim Schembri
With rich, convincing lead performances by Willem Dafoe and Oscar Isaac, the film breathes with a love of art and the toil it demands. Working with brilliant French cinematographer Benoit Delhomme, the film is an ever-pleasing swirl of style.
3.5/5
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Sicario
3AW
Jim Schembri
Emily Blunt again steps up to bump up her credentials as today's go-to action girl [in a] gutsy, rough-edged action drama.
3.5/5
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The Immigrant
3AW
Jim Schembri
A terrific, contained performance by Cotillard is the cherry in this classy period piece.
3/5
5
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Military Wives
3AW
Jim Schembri
In a film unapologetically dedicated to the celebration of good old British pluck there's not a cliche or easy appeal for emotion that isn't tapped by a story that is so predictable you could set your watch by it. But you know what? It all works.
3/5
5
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The Transporter Refueled
3AW
Jim Schembri
A breezily paced car chase film that does exactly what it says on the label.
3/5
5
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The Longest Ride
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's well-made mush, this. As usual with these [Nicholas] Sparks adaptations, the corn is prepared and brought to the boil very carefully.
3/5
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Ravishing, magnificently silly sequel to the nutty 2009 animated hit...Bizarre creations run amok in a world that looks like a gigantic tossed salad. It really is a delight to behold. Perfect family movie fare.
3.5/5
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Paranoia
3AW
Jim Schembri
This is a tedious turkey of the first order. As well as being supremely dull, the film does no favours for feminism - or what's left of it - as far as film roles go.
1/5
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
3AW
Jim Schembri
Surprisingly terrific... kudos to director Michael Dougherty for actually making us care about the family amidst all the expensive demolition of cities and landscape.
3.5/5
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For No Good Reason
3AW
Jim Schembri
The process of creating a painting isn't as automatically intertesting as, say, that of making a film, but...the technical and artistic inspirations that fuel an artist can sometimes be as fascinating as the finished work.
3/5
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Fruitvale Station
3AW
Jim Schembri
Well-meaning, naturally acted, horrifically unbalanced...Whatever its objectives, the film comes across as an emotionally exploitative, crudely manipulative prayer.
1.5/5
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The Big Sick
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film does push against most of the easy rom-com cliches to deliver a satisfying adult comedy. One value it does share with most American comedies is how its veneer of humour packages a set of values that are chiefly conservative and very American.
3.5/5
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Ben is Back
3AW
Jim Schembri
Despite its Hollywood gloss - it's a Julia Roberts film, after all - the film does venture into some of the grittier realities about those stricken with addiction.
3/5
5
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Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
3AW
Jim Schembri
Just isn't scary.
1/5
5
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Sausage Party
3AW
Jim Schembri
An hilarious anti-Pixar parody with a filthy mind and a dirty mouth...A near-brilliant exercise in bad taste.
3.5/5
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Step Up Revolution
3AW
Jim Schembri
In a world stuffed with film franchises, the Step Up series is clearly one of the smartest and deserves far more respect than it typically gets for knowing its audience so intuitively.
3/5
5
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The Lobster
3AW
Jim Schembri
An overlong mess.
1/5
5
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Gone Girl
3AW
Jim Schembri
Good old crime pulp is essentially what Gone Girl is, unspooling like a two-part mini series and paced like a standard police/mystery procedural.
3/5
5
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Act of Valor
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's very much a conventional thrill-ride action movie, though the claims to realism are undercut by too many video-game point-of-view shots as the soldiers engage the enemy.
2.5/5
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Poms
3AW
Jim Schembri
The romp is gentle in nature, cheeky in tone and is clearly determined to join Keaton's other recent films in presenting a polite yet resolute middle finger to those who stereotype the elderly.
3/5
5
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Irrational Man
3AW
Jim Schembri
Woody Allen works through familiar themes of secrecy, murder, morality and personal responsibility, extracting those fluid, naturalistic performances from his cast that have become his signature.
3/5
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Split
3AW
Jim Schembri
An armrest-clutching psychological thriller that is bound to render you breathless by the time the credits roll...with the spirit of Alfred Hitchcock watching over him, M Night Shyamalan seems to have recovered his bearings.
3.5/5
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Rambo: Last Blood
3AW
Jim Schembri
It's only a guess, but a good part of the sound effects budget for this film was probably spent on heads of lettuce, scores of which must have been torn apart in front of highly sensitive microphones to accentuate the carnage Rambo unleashes.
3/5
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Selma
3AW
Jim Schembri
As emotionally and racially charged as the film's story is, director Ava DuVernay is determined to deliver a full-bodied, balanced drama that derives its power from the central fight for understanding and respect.
4/5
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The Conjuring
3AW
Jim Schembri
A very effectively mounted frightfest, played extremely straight, with very good performances.
3.5/5
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Cut Snake
3AW
Jim Schembri
A tough little crime drama full of muted anger, growled dialogue and whispered threats...Much as we applaud the achievements of filmmakers working on small budgets, you can't hand out free passes when those limitations hobble the flow and feel of a film.
2.5/5
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Danger Close
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film is clearly designed as a tribute to the unfaltering courage of those men, yet it is not some hollow, patriotic flag waver, nor is there much glory in the outcome. The battle scenes are vivid, graphic and often brutal.
3.5/5
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Before Midnight
3AW
Jim Schembri
The trouble with those first two film was their souffle-light scenarios...Here, however, things are much juicier as infidelity, commitment, divorce, resentment and all the other soul-sapping things that clock in when you hit your 40s come into play.
3/5
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Drift
3AW
Jim Schembri
This lazy, over-long, poorly directed surf drama is the latest exhibit to suggest that 2013 is turning out to be a dud year for Australian film...it raises the age-old issue of whether local screenplays are properly developed before going into production.
1/5
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After Earth
3AW
Jim Schembri
By any fair measure, After Earth is actually quite a nifty, pacy adventure film, even though it was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who has not made a good film since his 1999 debut The Sixth Sense.
2.5/5
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Magic Mike
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thankfully, there's enough of a decent story shoe-horned in between all the gyrations and abdominal close-ups to keep Magic Mike from turning into an unofficial update of The Full Monty.
3.5/5
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A Perfect Day
3AW
Jim Schembri
A very fine cast lead by Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins (in his best movie performance in 10 years) guns this oddball, fablesque comedy-drama about bureaucracy and international aid.
3/5
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The Girl on the Train
3AW
Jim Schembri
A great, big, fat, juicy slice of masterfully directed melodrama...The remarkable central performance by Emily Blunt should put her in the outside running for an Oscar
3/5
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Angel Has Fallen
3AW
Jim Schembri
When it comes to big-screen meat-and-potatoes action, Butler has carved out a nice niche for himself, and as solid as Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen were, this third installment is easily the best.
3.5/5
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Marriage Story
3AW
Jim Schembri
One particularly symbolic scene involving Driver and a small key-chain blade says more about the nature of bad divorces than most films on the subject.
4/5
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Black Panther
3AW
Jim Schembri
As a superhero film Black Panther is fine entertainment that dutifully hits all the beats it is supposed to. Beyond that, anyone willing to decode the film as some sort of sophisticated allegory about black rights might find themselves tied up in knots.
3/5
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Hereditary
3AW
Jim Schembri
In a genre so driven by convention it's great to see another horror movie so soon after A Quiet Place take a few left turns and deliver the scares we expect by means that we don't...A very effective, cliche-averse chiller.
3.5/5
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The Revenant
3AW
Jim Schembri
The first few minutes will leave you in absolutely no doubt as to the type of visceral, vivid, immersive, armrest-clutching movie experience you're in for...Think of the opening battle sequence in Saving Private Ryan, but with muskets and arrows.
4.5/5
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Jack the Giant Slayer
3AW
Jim Schembri
Thanks to the marvel of digital visual effects and the clear influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, [director Bryan] Singer does a terrific job showing us just how realistic a battle set in a fantasy world can look.
3/5
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
3AW
Jim Schembri
Bundled with Dirty Grandpa and Bad Neighbours 2, the release of this forgettable, scatter-brained R-rated comedy belch marks the completion of Zac Efron's informal film trilogy, the chief message of which appears to be "I will now say 'yes' to anything".
2/5
5
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Masterminds
3AW
Jim Schembri
As a throwaway Friday night pizza time killer, this redneck comedy is a funny enough caper lark. Apparently based on a true story.
2.5/5
5
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A Royal Night Out
3AW
Jim Schembri
A prettily decorated, politely outrageous piece of cinematic confectionary, a carefully balanced, souffle-light slice of historical fiction that has a great deal of fun playing with the truth by dropping two real-life princesses into a teen romp.
3/5
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The Lego Batman Movie
3AW
Jim Schembri
A frantic mish-mash of ideas and references that turns out to be not-all-that funny... It's more multiplex mulch than memorable.
2.5/5
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The Three Stooges
3AW
Jim Schembri
Anyone who has ever enjoyed so much as a guilty giggle from watching the cartoonish antics of The Three Stooges as they eye-poke, head-slap and gut-punch each other will get a major kick from this loving reboot...Good, clean, stupid fun.
3/5
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Farewell, My Queen
3AW
Jim Schembri
Like the Americans, the French are infatuated with their history. They also love long close-ups of beautiful women in period costume. These elements combine in this painfully pretty period chamber piece.
2.5/5
5
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The Paperboy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Judging by her edgier scenes [Nicole] Kidman is clearly uninterested in currying any favour at the multiplex. And all credit to her.
3/5
5
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
3AW
Jim Schembri
Not the laugh-a-minute riot FG fans are accustomed to, but [the film] is consistently funny and [Seth] MacFarlane works hard to relate everything back to the main story...solidly entertaining...also puts to rest any doubts that MacFarlane can hold a lead.
3/5
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Chef
3AW
Jim Schembri
Foodies and non-foodies alike will feed hungrily on the many delights served up by Chef, a terrific, thoughtful, genuinely unusual comedy that is as much about the dynamics of social media as it is about cooking.
3.5/5
5
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Gold
3AW
Jim Schembri
As a big business movie in the wake of The Big Short, Gold gives us another dipsy adventure into the adrenalin-pumped world of high-risk speculation and financial high-wire walks...[with] an impressive acting showpiece from McConaughey.
3.5/5
5
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
A perfectly congenial, innocuous goofball comedy. It's not as funny as the first film, but it is funny enough...this chuckle-worthy little film has become subject to some of the most vitriolic reviews in recent memory; it is difficult to figure out why.
2.5/5
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
3AW
Jim Schembri
A perfect example of a film that sounds a lot more fun than it is.
1/5
5
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Ladies in Black
3AW
Jim Schembri
As a light, lovely-looking entertainment, Ladies in Black is a superlative chick flick that celebrates femininity and independence as mutually supportive qualities...the film also champions how Australia was built by a rich mix of cultures.
3.5/5
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LOL
3AW
Jim Schembri
What's of real interest here...is the casual, unforced portrayal just how indulged, spoilt, undisciplined and self-centred these iGen teens are.
2.5/5
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Omar
3AW
Jim Schembri
From button-pushing Palestinian writer/director Hany Abu-Assad, who gave us the inflammatory Paradise Now in 2005, comes an equally piercing, if less politically strident look at life under Israeli occupation.
4/5
5
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The Skeleton Twins
3AW
Jim Schembri
Acidic sibling dramedy.
3/5
5
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Margaret
3AW
Jim Schembri
In a sterling central performance, Anna Paquin (True Blood; The Piano) is outstanding as she courses through a broad palette of hard-edged emotions in this searing post-9/11 drama about honesty and culpability.
4/5
5
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Murder On The Orient Express
3AW
Jim Schembri
With the glossy remake of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express - done so memorably in 1974 by Sidney Lumet - director Kenneth Branagh presents for us a prestigious, high-brow example of a studio film that is, by any fair measure, creatively dead
1/5
5
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By The Sea
3AW
Jim Schembri
[The] direction is so leaden and the pace so slow the film largely unwinds as dramatically inert and uninteresting...one wonders how much better this film would have been had somebody had the nerve to tell [Angelina Jolie Pitt] to lose 20 minutes.
1/5
5
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Hope Springs
3AW
Jim Schembri
A grounded romantic drama about seniors, sex and the mortality of a long-standing marriage...a superbly performed, subdued and meticulously directed film.
4/5
5
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Love & Mercy
3AW
Jim Schembri
Though Paul Dano and John Cusack are perfectly Oscar-worthy as the younger and older versions of Brian Wilson in director William Pohlad's absorbing, lovingly assembled tribute film, it is the ever-versatile Paul Giamatti who shines brightest.
3.5/5
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Shazam!
3AW
Jim Schembri
More focused on pleasing kids than most superhero films, the film is graced with breezy performances, a slick sense of humour and the theme that even superheroes can't do it alone.
3/5
5
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Patriots Day
3AW
Jim Schembri
As well as demonstrating the impact the docu-drama format can have by placing you right in the middle of events, Patriots Day also shows how the battle against terrorism requires ordinary people standing up.
4.5/5
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The Martian
3AW
Jim Schembri
Easily one of the most engrossing, enthralling and entertaining films of the year...In essence, The Martian is the antithesis of a superhero movie; instead of one man trying to save the world, it's about the world trying to save one man.
4.5/5
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Spin Out
3AW
Jim Schembri
A valiant attempt at a broad Aussie comedy...The film can't be faulted for its ambition - the constant embracing of rural caricatures is clearly meant to be endearing - but the gags are either too weak or too vulgar to lift it.
1.5/5
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Star Trek Beyond
3AW
Jim Schembri
Easily the most enjoyable and pacy of the new Star Trek films.
3.5/5
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Bridget Jones's Baby
3AW
Jim Schembri
A spright, persistently funny look at a woman flailing in a comic swirl of mid-life turmoil....Bridget is in her mid-40s here, so what [we] now need is one more film where we see Bridget in her 60s trying to bring up a 21st century teenager.
3/5
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Rosewater
3AW
Jim Schembri
Writer/director Jon Stewart - the recently retired host of The Daily Show - does a solid, proficient job showing the realities of torture and of trying to find the truth in such an oppressed state.
3/5
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Riddick
3AW
Jim Schembri
Riddick turns out to be one of the most pleasantly surprising multiplex films so far this year...bizarre as it sounds, the film essentially shapes up as a quality chamber piece set in the dusty wastes of an alien planet.
3.5/5
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Paper Towns
3AW
Jim Schembri
A pleasing, cliche-averse, stereotype defying tale of mismatched teens in odd-couple love.
3/5
5
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
3AW
Jim Schembri
There are a few spots of humour and one decent chase scene, but The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is essentially a nicely costumed bland-out from one of the most overrated directors of our time.
2.5/5
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Love Is Strange
3AW
Jim Schembri
John Lithgow and Alfred Molina shine in a sweet, heartfelt little New York drama playing Ben and George, two gay men who decide to marry after a 39-year live-in arrangement...full of small, telling moments.
3/5
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Manchester by the Sea
3AW
Jim Schembri
There is an in-built drabness to the drama of Manchester by the Sea that, while never exactly boring, takes far too long to get to its sobering yet unremarkable payoff. We all enjoy a good downer, but not one that also manages to tire us out.
2/5
5
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Kick-Ass 2
3AW
Jim Schembri
Yet the film's biggest treat - and this will come as no surprise to Kick-Ass fans - is how strong and magnetic a character Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) has become. She's great. Trouble is, there's not enough of her.
2.5/5
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Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
3AW
Jim Schembri
The film features some pretty nifty stunt-heavy engagements and vehicular chases, the best being Harley's climactic bit of business on roller skates. It's really one for the books.
3.5/5
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Trouble with the Curve
3AW
Jim Schembri
Director Robert Lorenz does a proficient, if unremarkable job corralling all the cliches into a pleasing, predictable package...And let's face it: nobody serves out a big, well-deserved dose of comeuppance like Clint. Even without a gun.
3/5
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Unbroken
3AW
Jim Schembri
To be frank, as an actress Jolie has disappointed more than she has pleased. Thus, it would be a welcome mid-life shift to see less of her work before the camera and more of her work as a serious filmmaker whose defining trait is clearly compassion.
3/5
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Best Of Enemies
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Jim Schembri
An often spell-binding account of the culture-changing television debates that took place in 1968 between conservative William F Buckley Jr and liberal Gore Vidal...Compulsive viewing.
4/5
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Tomorrowland
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Jim Schembri
Disney's beautifully designed, clumsily plotted movie muddle...Tomorrowland is the latest film to prove Disney's new-found mastery of meta-cinema, wherein they make films that are essentially about Disney products.
3/5
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I, Frankenstein
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Jim Schembri
If a worse studio film comes out this year, we're in deep trouble, people. This film is so bad it will hurt your brain. And even if you leave your brain at home, your spinal column will still object...[a] godawful, lame-brained mess of a movie.
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Absolutely Anything
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Jim Schembri
Ubiquitous British funnyman Simon Pegg in a crazy sci-fi lark directed by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame? Sounds like a match made in Heaven, yeah? Unfortunately, once this tale gets going it feels more like a match made in purgatory.
1/5
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Rush
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Jim Schembri
As well as brandishing his usual mastery for pacing gutsy dramas, [director Ron] Howard's command over his division of digital artists results in some great sequences once the action moves to the track.
4/5
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Jim Schembri
A funny, feel good, crowd-pleasing movie [but it's] not the ground-breaker it's being made out to be. It's simply the latest logical progression in the growing prominence of Asians in Western films, something that has been evolving for more than 60 years.
3/5
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Transcendence
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Jim Schembri
Here's yet another example of a high-concept mega-movie that appears to have gone into production a draft or two too early.
2/5
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Five Feet Apart
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Jim Schembri
Directed with manipulative precision by Justin Baldoni, the film fashions its doomed romance drama with an emphasis on hope and how being denied a future can serve to strengthen one's resolve to have one.
3.5/5
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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
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Jim Schembri
An absolute, hands-down knock-out...Dawn is sensational, compelling, enthralling. It shows just how brilliantly reboots can work when done with care and intelligence.
4/5
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The Sessions
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Jim Schembri
Australian veteran writer/director Ben Lewin (The Dunera Boys) delivers a heartfelt gem that is as moving as it is unassuming. It easily chimes in as one of the films of the year.
4.5/5
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Son of Saul
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Jim Schembri
Easily one of the most intimate and harrowing Holocaust films yet made.
4.5/5
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Enemy Territory (Septembers Of Shiraz)
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Jim Schembri
Though the film has failed to make any impression, it is an effectively mounted portrait of how regime change can help mask the agendas of the lawless. That two highly-regarded indigenous filmmakers would dare take on such a risky project deserves kudos.
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