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Back to School (1986) 81% “It's just as well that [Rodney Dangerfield] has so much charm and guile, because everything but his performance is pretty ghastly.” – Sydney Morning Herald Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Children of a Lesser God (1986) 81% “More than most, the movie depends on high-pitched, sustained performances by its central characters. I think both are superb. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Something Wild (1986) 92% “Something Wild is based more on first principles than anything new, but it applies them with such vigour that the movie has a sense of limitless freedom. It tastes like free-range chicken, rather than battery-produced.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% “It's perversely original, because Lynch has no use for good taste. He's a sophisticated bull in the china shop of film, using the horror genre here to show us something awfully real. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% “In terms of the genre, Mulan is competent, rather than distinguished, constantly well animated, rather than brilliantly so. It's a war story, but one without dead bodies.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% “After the racial insensitivities of The Lion King, Pocahontas has been called a more aware Disney film but that is tosh. It's as politically aware as the average Tarzan movie.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “Aliens has energy to burn, and with Sigourney Weaver's tight-lipped, nervous, true grit, Aliens is a superior shocker.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 25, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “Nobody laughs louder at his own jokes than Mel Brooks. That's why his films are so often uneven -- he has no sense of proportion.... That's also what makes him occasionally one of the funniest men alive, because he'll try anything to make us laugh.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% “Almost compulsory, man. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% “It's part elegy for a nation that likes to gun down its leaders, part Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd comedy... The mix is kind of irresistible, because comedy with such texture is rare.” – Sydney Morning Herald Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% “Michael Ballhaus's camera gives us a ravishingly stylish New York, where postwar prosperity is at its height. Redford's great achievement is to take us inside the new medium that feeds on that prosperity, at the moment vulgarity triumphed.” – Sydney Morning Herald Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% “The stories cover supply, demand, addiction, treatment, corruption, enforcement, courts, and policy-making, and Soderbergh keeps all of it flowing with the pace of a thriller. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% “Kidman and McGregor sparkle together; some songs enchant, a fine supporting cast give us some laughs, but it's not enough. There is nothing to savour, to reflect on. It's a film where style is in search of an idea.” – Sydney Morning Herald Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Godland (2022) 92% 4.5/5 “Like all the best movies, we can’t tell where this is going. When it arrives, the finale is worthy of all that has come before. Nobody makes movies like this any more -- except that some do.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 17, 2023 Full Review Alcarràs (2022) 93% 4.5/5 “Alcarras reminds us of what we’ve been missing. It’s a beautiful, sad, authentic depiction of the drama within one extended family facing a kind of oblivion.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 28, 2023 Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% “This is a film so gorged on computer game aesthetics that the theatre seats ought to have joysticks... It's already a hit after one weekend in the U.S., but for me, "Game Over" was a long time coming.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 12, 2023 Full Review Other People's Children (2022) 91% 4/5 “The film concerns itself with quotidian life, confident that this is enough to keep us interested. In this writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski is proven right: it is more than enough.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 6, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% “Anderson writes like a playwright, building character so that he can give an actor a moment of blazing intensity, but he's also an instinctively daring filmmaker, as these experiments with time show.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Back to the Future (1985) 93% “Despite the frequent laughs, I came out of the movie vaguely dissatisfied. I expected something more original from this... and from Zemeckis, who proved in Romancing The Stone that he can produce fresh, witty and entertaining pictures.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 27, 2023 Full Review Driving Madeleine (2022) 94% 4/5 “Madeleine’s story has many twists, going to a dark place. Renaud plays her as a survivor; someone who learned to endure. Her warmth is utterly irresistible.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% “Michael Bay, directing his third film for Bruckheimer, knows what the boss wants and supplies it, though he's probably capable of better. Both men came to film via Madison Avenue, and what they're seeing here is just another product. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Extraction 2 (2023) 80% 2.5/5 “The second Extraction is more grandiose, full of pace and action, and dull as a box of rocks. It follows all the bad rules of sequels -- bigger, louder, dumber.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 17, 2023 Full Review One Fine Morning (2022) 93% 4/5 “The film achieves intimacy, rather than mere arousal. That’s just one of the ways in which it offers a certain grandeur.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 9, 2023 Full Review Bank of Dave (2023) 86% 4/5 “Director Chris Foggin builds another English “feel-good” movie, the latest in a line that goes back well into the last century... It also has a whiff of truth that saves the day.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 1, 2023 Full Review Limbo (2023) 91% 4/5 “A quiet but powerful meditation on how far we have not come in this country.” – Sydney Morning Herald May 25, 2023 Full Review
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