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Grant Watson

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Biography:

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.

Reviews

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 81% 5/10 “Honestly it would be a shame to abandon Mission: Impossible here: not with a bang, or even a whimper – just a slow tortured gasp of breath like Benji with a collapsed lung.” – Fiction Machine May 17, 2025 Full Review Flight (2012) 77% 6/10 “The saving grace is in the performances. ” – Fiction Machine May 15, 2025 Full Review In the Lost Lands (2025) 25% 6/10 “Anderson is one of heirs to the old-fashioned B-movie: his work gets in, runs around indulging in stereotype and crowd-pleasing mayhem, and runs the credits before anybody watching can get bored.” – Fiction Machine May 14, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 84% “This is a wonderful small-scale blend of road movie and science fiction film with strong performances and a director showing off a versatility the industry has never really afforded him.” – Fiction Machine May 12, 2025 Full Review Metro (1997) 17% 3/10 “These elements are all jumbled together, and when mixed they not so much blend as curdle.” – Fiction Machine May 12, 2025 Full Review Seminole Uprising (1955) 5/10 “This is a frustrating film of good elements and wobbly execution.” – Fiction Machine May 8, 2025 Full Review The Collection (2012) 36% 3/10 “It is oddly generic right where the film most desperately need to be distinctive.” – Fiction Machine May 7, 2025 Full Review Enemy (2013) 73% 6/10 “Assessed on a level of tone and aesthetic, Villeneuve’s film is a stunning work. It is oppressive and unsettling, achieving Lynchian levels of discomfort and uncertainty.” – Fiction Machine May 7, 2025 Full Review The Rough House (1917) 8/10 “The timing is impeccable. The comedy is sharp as a blade.” – Fiction Machine May 2, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% 7/10 “Flawed? Yes. Enjoyable? Also yes.” – Fiction Machine Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Robot Wars (1993) 4/10 “This is not great cinema – I doubt you could even make an argument for it being good cinema – but it has an aspiration that I cannot help but admire.” – Fiction Machine Apr 29, 2025 Full Review 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
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