All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)
33%
“An entertaining kid's film. The animation is flat and uninspiring, but the story and characters are fun.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 23, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
93%
1.5/5
“No one could deny that there is a certain amount of rah-rah fun, speed and excitement in The Empire Strikes Back. But it is the Twister of yesteryear: pure video-game spectacle, all glittering explosions and brittle one-liners.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 23, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
54%
2/5
“The Phantom Menace is inoffensive, time-filling fluff - generally good to look at, and occasionally exciting. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 16, 2025
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American Psycho (2000)
68%
“A smug, monotonal, buttoned-down rendering of the one-gag novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it wastes the acting talent of Christian Bale and gives post-modern irony a bad name.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 5, 2025
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Scream 3 (2000)
43%
2.5/5
“A mainly by the numbers affair, enjoyable enough while it lasts, but instantly forgettable. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 20, 2025
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Mulan (1998)
92%
3/5
“Mulan is not in the league of The Little Mermaid, but it moves quickly and has enough energy and invention to keep both young and old audiences satisfied. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Dec 20, 2024
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
80%
2.5/5
“Particular aesthetic effects, such as the curious out-of-focus backgrounds to mimic live-action photography, quickly become tedious. None the less, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a disarmingly enjoyable diversion. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Dec 18, 2024
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Scream (1996)
77%
3.5/5
“You probably have to be a horror-freak to really understand the immense ingenuity of this movie, but in every department -- direction, acting, sound design -- it is a stunner.” –
The Age (Australia)
Oct 10, 2024
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Seven (1995)
84%
3.5/5
“What really counts is the labyrinthine process whereby the gruesome signs and clues left by the killer are "decoded." That, and director David Fincher's intricate evocation in sound and light of a world going straight to hell.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 28, 2024
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In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
59%
“Carpenter's work with music and sound design has never been so radical and the film's set pieces are breathtakingly executed.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 2, 2024
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Grease (1978)
66%
3.5/4
“For all it's blemishes, Grease is still an undeniably enjoyable and colorful confection. If anything, the passage of 20 years has increased its allure as a camp pastiche of an imaginary, bygone era.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 31, 2024
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Heat (1995)
83%
“Although there is much that is impressive and pleasurable in this film, it left me somewhat disappointed. Mann's determination to forge an epic, almost three hours' long, leads him to stretch the script thin.” –
The Age (Australia)
Dec 20, 2023
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Un Chien Andalou (1929)
100%
4.5/5
“Buñuel scrupulously respects certain conventions of classical continuity and linkage, creating a certain, disquieting narrative sense among these fragments from the unconscious.” –
Film Critic: Adrian Martin
Nov 2, 2023
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Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992)
45%
“An engaging combination of florid, baroque horror and colorful teen comedy, Amityville 1992 is one for "exploitation" cinema connoisseurs.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 27, 2023
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The Man Without a Face (1993)
68%
“Gibson handles ably, if not imaginatively, this cross between a typical episode of The Wonder Years and a hothouse family melodrama in the vein of The Prince of Tides.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 27, 2023
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Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
79%
“Robert De Niro has rarely shown such judicious acting restraint as he does here, with extremely moving results.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 27, 2023
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Hard-Boiled (1992)
92%
“Hard-Boiled is action cinema at its finest and most imaginative. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 27, 2023
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Manny & Lo (1996)
64%
3/5
“Its toughness, its bizarre humour and its constant element of surprise ensure that it is a perfectly modern and searching testament to contemporary experience.” –
Film Critic: Adrian Martin
Jul 24, 2023
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The Matrix (1999)
83%
4/5
“Rarely has a blockbuster been so enjoyable. Superbly staged and edited, it never loses its drive and intrigue. Reeves has come a long way as an actor since the woeful Johnny Mnemonic, and so has the entire cyberpunk genre on screen.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 12, 2023
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Magnolia (1999)
82%
2/5
“Once the script framework is locked down -- nine characters passing through a single day and night in the San Fernando Valley -- Anderson can only trudge relentlessly through the bleak stations of American misery.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jun 30, 2023
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Starship Troopers (1997)
72%
“Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is an odd and most distressing film.” –
Film Critic: Adrian Martin
Mar 16, 2023
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Twilight (1998)
61%
3/5
“The dead opposite of a "spectacular," Twilight will satisfy those who can gladly attune themselves to the novelistic subtleties of psychological mystery-thriller action. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 2, 2023
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The Assignment (1997)
62%
3/5
“In its low-rent way, it aims for every frisson, reversal and shock-tactic -- and mostly succeeds. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 2, 2023
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Wild Things (1998)
64%
3/5
“Wild Things is a richly enjoyable piece of hokum that blends camp humor and low melodrama with mind-boggling plot moves of Dario Argento and the structural cleverness of Quentin Tarantino. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 2, 2023
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
80%
1/5
“The latest, gruesome effort from Joel and Ethan Coen is surely one of the least bearable films of 1998. Suddenly, the dubious facets that were kept under control in their previous films march to the foreground and obliterate all else. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 20, 2023
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