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Philippa Hawker

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Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “It's a film with more to offer than formal beauty. The environments do not simply allow events to unfold inside them -- they become the story, as Barry Lyndon is presented to us through settings, music, stillness and wordless exchanges.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% 3/5 “There are plenty of well-meaning tweaks given to the story... In part, it wants to acknowledge that this is a colonial story and also to deny it: to dissolve the colonising implications and make it a "Two Worlds, One Family" celebration.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% 2.5/5 “The Napoleon-Josephine relationship sits awkwardly alongside moments of spectacle, physicality, and dramatic scale.” – Australian Book Review Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% 4/5 “It is a story of murder, manipulation, and survival, an engrossing, deliberate work that also has expansive, unexpected moments and disconcerting juxtapositions. It is packed with vivid cameos and has three striking performances at its centre.” – Australian Book Review Nov 4, 2023 Full Review A Haunting in Venice (2023) 75% 2.5/5 “In dispensing with Christie’s plot, Green and Branagh haven’t really brought anything strong or surprising to the narrative. It’s all ambiance and angle. If they are planning another Poirot, they need to rethink their approach.” – Australian Book Review Sep 14, 2023 Full Review One Fine Morning (2022) 93% 4/5 “In French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning (Un beau matin), books play a significant role: as physical objects, gifts, talismans, sources of connection, works in progress. Above all, books can represent a life.” – Australian Book Review Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Dalíland (2022) 43% 3/5 “The central performances are strong.” – Australian Book Review Jul 20, 2023 Full Review The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) 82% “There are some heavy-handed moments of affirmation in the film, but there is a likeable warmth to it, some strong performances and some grit and spark, particularly in the strand involving Ferrara.” – Sydney Morning Herald Mar 14, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% “Funny, fast and graceful, an exuberant mixture of wit, physical comedy and inventive plotting, The Lady Eve sets a benchmark for romantic comedy.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 28, 2022 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% 3/5 “The combat in the arena is exciting, fast but not overly gruesome -- blood is shed, tigers are unleashed, chariots career around the arena, but it's in a way that empties the gladiatorial spectacle of any sense of excess or extremes.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Maleficent (2014) 54% 3/5 “It's a splendid-looking film. The effects are striking throughout, whether they are dramatic battle confrontations between humans and the forces of the natural world, or small moments of delicate detail.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 14, 2018 Full Review Selma (2014) 99% 4/5 “Ava DuVernay's Selma is a beautifully observed drama of public and private lives, of personal narratives and historic moments.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 4, 2018 Full Review C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) 100% “There's a warmth and detail to the way father, mother and son are depicted and explored.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 17, 2018 Full Review Mr. Six (2015) 83% 3.5/5 “Mr Six is a comic, elegiac film that never settles into one particular genre or mood.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 14, 2018 Full Review Measure of a Man (2018) 52% 4/5 “The accumulating power of The Measure of a Man is in its small details and undemonstrative approach.” – Australian Book Review Jul 9, 2018 Full Review Trishna (2011) 62% “Alec d'Urberville, the wayward idler who seduces Tess, and Angel Clare, the compulsively virtuous youngman she loves, 'the earnestest man in Wessex', have been distilled [in this adaptation] into a single, somewhat problematic figure.” – Australian Book Review Oct 14, 2017 Full Review The Measure of a Man (2015) 92% 4/55 “The accumulating power of The Measure of a Man is in its small details and undemonstrative approach.” – Australian Book Review Oct 14, 2017 Full Review Women He's Undressed (2015) 91% “Gillian Armstrong's lively, cleverly constructed documentary is a celebration of a life and an art. It's also a playful exploration of the creative achievements of an Australian who played an important role in the Golden Age of Hollywood.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 25, 2016 Full Review Courted (2015) 91% 3/5 “Courted is an intriguing, carefully constrained work, although there's something a little disconcerting about the way the two stories are interwoven.” – The Age (Australia) May 12, 2016 Full Review The First Monday in May (2016) 77% 3/5 “The documentary doesn't really tell us much about the items in the show either. But it gives us enough glimpses of the content to ensure that it is beautiful to look at.” – The Age (Australia) May 12, 2016 Full Review Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) 64% 2.5/5 “Unfortunately, Bad Neighbours 2 hasn't found a way to recycle itself, even with a quasi-feminist comic cause.” – Sydney Morning Herald May 11, 2016 Full Review The Angry Birds Movie (2016) 44% 2.5/5 “Whatever we might think of its broader implications, in the end, The Angry Birds Movie is basically a franchise extender that follows a predictable formula.” – The Age (Australia) May 11, 2016 Full Review My Mother (2015) 84% “The film is a warm depiction of familial bonds and the strength of relationships across generations.” – The Age (Australia) May 4, 2016 Full Review The Silences (2016) 100% 3.5/5 “The Silences is a narrative of discovery, but it doesn't trade in startling revelations or reversals: it is judicious, thoughtful, resonant.” – The Age (Australia) May 2, 2016 Full Review The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) 20% 2/5 “A clumsily assembled patchwork of images, ideas, storylines and fabulous frocks that never comes together with any kind of consistency or flair. It's a mess, and a dour one at that.” – The Age (Australia) Apr 14, 2016 Full Review
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