Risibly far-fetched, contrived and unoriginal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2021

He's not an impossible author to film, but a challenging one to translate from page to screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 7, 2020

While it plays out against the glories of the Dampier Peninsula, the splendors of the backdrop can't make up for the fact events in the foreground are failing to make sense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2020

Director Gregor Jordan paints a nice picture, but that's about it.

| Original Score: C | Jul 18, 2020

Because none of the core elements work, it just completely fell apart for me.

| Jul 18, 2020

It doesn't want to commit to being about what it's about... Mostly I think it's just a copout.

| Jul 18, 2020

Since nobody in Dirt Music is written as anything but a conduit for its tonal twists and turns, there's no weight to what its main characters do for love.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 17, 2020

A strangely fascinating delivery system for so much visual beauty that its flaws scrabble to gain a purchase.

| Jul 16, 2020

It's an incredibly beautiful film, but it's a challenge to emotionally connect to it... in the translation to the screen, it has lost its interiority, and anything profound it might have communicated.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2020

Dirt Music is 1 hour of a self-aware film that feels like a '90s throwback, and 1 hour of an increasingly convoluted narrative that reaches Nicholas Sparks levels of hackneyed.

| Sep 19, 2019

[T]he corny, eventually rather contrived result doesn't end up doing justice to either its cast's talents or the quality of Winton's acclaimed prose.

| Sep 13, 2019

Dirt Music isn't initially a head-splitting film, but the overlong story doesn't know how to let unrequited love take center stage without dull murder mysteries attached to the side.

| Original Score: D | Sep 10, 2019

While Jordan's infatuation with the landscape of Western Australia gives the film plenty of texture and atmosphere, the characters are underdeveloped, the story sparse.

| Sep 9, 2019

"Dirt Music" is a fine-looking romance that never finds the right key.

| Sep 9, 2019

The melody of "Dirt Music," once off-key, finally finds the right chords, nearly too late.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 9, 2019