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Review of A Simple Favor (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2018

[A Simple Favor is an] uneven but quite engaging domestic thriller - a variant on Gone Girl given a comic spin by director Paul…

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Review of Alice in Wonderland (1951)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2018

Carroll's dream logic seems to liberate the animators: everything is constantly transforming, including prim Alice herself…

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Review of Paper Moon (2013)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2018

Shot in black and white by the versatile cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, this has a mix of folksiness and precise craft that anticipates the…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2018

You don't need to have grown up with [Rogers] to be fascinated and moved by Morgan Neville's documentary portrait, made in a spirit of…

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Review of The Predator (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2018

In this instance, Black seems intent on catering to as many different types of nostalgia as possible…

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Review of Dumbo (1941)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Sep 2018

Though the character's eventual comic triumph is never in doubt, there are traumatic moments along the way, including an extraordinary,…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 06 Sep 2018

Enough information is provided to let us discern the rudiments of a conventional plot - but our understanding of this remains tentative,…

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Review of The Nun (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 04 Sep 2018

[The Nun] handles sacred iconography with kid gloves, taking pains not to offend the orthodox - and delivering neither the shock of…

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Review of Mile 22 (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 28 Aug 2018

For all the pretense of gritty realism, the film is weirdly unreal: the clock may be ticking, but everyone has a lot of time to kick back and talk…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 21 Aug 2018

That script, by Todd Berger, is the film's biggest problem. Various promising themes are introduced without being followed through…

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Review of Mirai (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 21 Aug 2018

Mirai can be recommended to both adults and children...Those aged around eight and up may be amused to recognise aspects of their younger selves…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Aug 2018

If there's any sense of menace in The Meg, it lies in the prospect that many more such films may be on the way…

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Review of West of Sunshine (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 08 Aug 2018

A conventional but touching social-realist drama…

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Review of Our New President (2018)

By Karl Quinn (16) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Aug 2018

It's a scattergun approach that all adds up to compelling evidence of an orchestrated campaign led from the very top…

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Review of Ash Is Purest White (2018)

By Stephanie Bunbury (1) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Aug 2018

Through all this, Jia is a keen observer, sympathetic to human passions but never nostalgic; the new China may be cold and acquisitive, but…

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Review of Submergence (2017)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Aug 2018

This is the film of an old man who has retained a humble, almost naive attitude to experience, an awareness there are depths he has left…

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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Aug 2018

Beneath the film's pop feminism bubbles an anger that might potentially have more than one target - and which leaves you wondering what…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 01 Aug 2018

With the Resident Evil saga apparently complete and no further Mad Max adventures on the immediate horizon, Mission: Impossible must…

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Review of Beirut (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 25 Jul 2018

As a personal statement it may belong more to its screenwriter and producer, Tony Gilroy...More shrewdly realistic than the average…

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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 Jul 2018

For a supposed action film, The Equalizer 2 is a slow burner, giving Washington the chance to prove as an actor he's a master of his domain…

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