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Grant Watson

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Grant Watson is a film critic based in Melbourne, Australia. He currently reviews contemporary and classic film for his own website FictionMachine, as well as the film review websites FilmInk and VCinema. Between 2003 and 2009 he wrote the film column The Bad Film Diaries for the science fiction journal Borderlands; for which he was awarded the William Atheling Jr Award for Science Fiction Criticism and Review on two occasions. He has also previously worked as the screen events manager at Western Australia's Film and Television Institute, where he curated numerous film programs and retrospectives.

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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985) 3/10 “You should not misinterpret my amusement: Wizards of the Lost Kingdom is bottom tier entertainment. It was featured on cult comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which is as good an assessment of its quality as any.” – Fiction Machine Apr 25, 2025 Full Review We Make Antiques! (2018) 83% 7/10 “Spending 105 minutes with these characters was an absolute pleasure.” – Fiction Machine Apr 24, 2025 Full Review The Butcher Boy (1917) 6/10 “ Somebody slipping in a comical fashion was funny in Shakespeare’s time. It was probably funny before Greek and Roman theatre. It was funny when Arbuckle did it, and those same pratfalls – preserved for more than a century – still hold up today.” – Fiction Machine Apr 23, 2025 Full Review The Younger Generation (1970) 4/10 “I do not think there is any serious risk of The Younger Generation ever finding an appreciative audience. One sort of rather average film drama is simply replaced halfway through with another, tonally unrelated, average film drama.” – Fiction Machine Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 10/10 “This is a handsomely staged film, peppered with fascinating ritual and detail, populated by a world-class cast, and focused almost entirely on human interaction and moral drama. It is truly sensational stuff.” – Fiction Machine Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Red Peony Gambler (1968) 7/10 “This is an energetic action film, packed with sword and knife fights and tense exchanges between rival criminal gangs.” – Fiction Machine Apr 16, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% 8/10 “Eisenberg’s script is observant and whip-smart, but it only works as well as it does because the actors he has cast perform their roles with such thought and delicacy” – Fiction Machine Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Rumours (2024) 75% 6/10 “Common thoughts will likely be ‘what am I watching?’, ‘whose idea was this?’, and ‘are those zombies furiously masturbating?’” – Fiction Machine Apr 12, 2025 Full Review The Thicket (2024) 79% 8/10 “Fans of the rough, gritty end of the American western will have a ball with The Thicket.” – Fiction Machine Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Trap (2024) 57% 4/10 “It is nonsense, and for the most part it is particularly humourless nonsense.” – Fiction Machine Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Batman Forever (1995) 39% 3/10 “To fully understand its multitude of sins requires multiple watches: in one viewing you will notice all of the comedy sound effects, but it takes a whole separate session to realise all of the scenes are in the wrong order.” – Fiction Machine Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Shotgun (1955) 4/10 “Shotgun boasts a gritty premise, the kind that would become increasingly popular among westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. Here, however, the film pulls a lot of its punches. The result feels very middle-of-the-road and ordinary.” – Fiction Machine Apr 6, 2025 Full Review Man With the Gun (1955) 5/10 “There is a poor narrative focus in the screenplay, which forces the film to witter away its core strengths in favour of unresolved romantic melodramas.” – Fiction Machine Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Crow (2024) 21% 4/10 “It is all just rather underwhelming and unnecessary.” – Fiction Machine Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Nina and the Hedgehog's Secret (2023) 7/10 “Rich in charm and boasting a surprisingly sophisticated and mature approach.” – Fiction Machine Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Savior (1998) 60% 7/10 “This bleak, somewhat relentless film about an American mercenary in the Bosnian War found little success back in 1998. Rewatched some decades later, and its brutal moments of violence and queasy moral ambivalence give a clear indication why that was.” – Fiction Machine Mar 27, 2025 Full Review With Honors (1994) 22% 6/10 “Good cast, nice production values, but a weak script.” – Fiction Machine Mar 26, 2025 Full Review Always Have Always Will (2025) 7/10 “This is a warm, engaging melodrama full of heart and rich in character and story detail. It is also the exact sort of Chinese feature that will run under the radar with an international audience.” – Fiction Machine Mar 24, 2025 Full Review V/H/S/Beyond (2024) 90% 6/10 “As with Shudder’s previous instalments, the new film operates as a curate’s egg: five horror-themed short films with an even mixture of good and bad parts. ” – Fiction Machine Mar 24, 2025 Full Review The Snake Prince (1976) 6/10 “The Snake Prince is a delightful cheesy and wonderfully odd slice of Hong Kong pop culture.” – Fiction Machine Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987) 0% 3/10 “I mean, on the one hand this is terrible filmmaking. On the other, if a film delivers what its core audience are craving and satisfies them, who are the rest of us to judge?” – Fiction Machine Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Rising Sun (1993) 32% 3/10 “A fairly hollow and uninvolving murder mystery liberally decorated with a representation of Japanese culture that is best described as ‘vile’.” – Fiction Machine Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 8/10 “Once free to enjoy the sequel on its own merits, it is easy to find a smart, deliberately excessive Hollywood blockbuster with its own elaborate, idiosyncratic style and appeal.” – Fiction Machine Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Five Guns West (1955) 7/10 “It is an extremely cheap production, with one estimate putting its budget as low as $60,000. It is also tensely developed, pivots on a killer concept, and turns its limitations of cast and location into palpable strengths.” – Fiction Machine Mar 11, 2025 Full Review The Debt Collector (1999) 9/10 “That it is not better known or available today is its own kind of tragedy.” – Fiction Machine Mar 10, 2025 Full Review
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