Davies has no new insights into the heroin spiral, but this silly melodrama benefits from the palpable chemistry between Ledger and Cornish

| Original Score: C | May 15, 2009

Without real characters or a fresh take on drug addiction, Candy has little to recommend it for anyone who's seen The Basketball Diaries or Requiem for a Dream.

| Feb 6, 2007

Undeniably affecting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2007

There's no moment that truly feels original until Candy's climactic breakdown at the end of the movie. By then, it's too late.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Those with the stomach for searing drama will recognise superior writing, direction and acting in one of the most heartbreaking films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

For all its depiction of a descent into drug addiction, Candy is filled with surprisingly sweet moments and goes down more easily than seems possible given the subject matter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2006

Just because you're a poet and in love and jamming spikes in your veins in the deepest downest underer, it doesn't make you Nick Cave.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2006

There's a formula here, and it's not the liquid being shot into popping veins.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

...Because we never had a strong handle on who all these people were at the beginning, it's difficult to care about whether they're capable of redemption in the end.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2006

Unfortunately too many elements of this Australian feature have been recycled from other addiction stories...

| Dec 1, 2006

It's one thing for a movie to show us the perils of addiction. It's another for it to give us two people who can't seem to find any joy in it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

... for a druggie movie, "Candy" is surprisingly dynamic and involving ...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2006

As good as the main performances are, they're inevitably flatter than the language of the film's narrator.

| Nov 30, 2006

... a flawed but engrossing parable on love and sacrifice.

| Nov 30, 2006

Rehab comes not a moment too soon.

| Original Score: C | Nov 30, 2006

[Heath Ledger] is alive and awake and interesting every minute of Candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2006

I think it's a very strong effort.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2006

... doesn't add anything substantively new to [the story of heroin addiction], though it has been nicely directed by Neil Armfield ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2006

In the end, Candy is a little too sweet and not quite harmful enough to the audience's health.

| Nov 17, 2006

Though it's a well-worn story, Candy does touch on a universal anxiety. For two people basking in the heat of an all-consuming love, what happens when the power gets cut off?

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 17, 2006