Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene - social, racial and economic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2014

A superior and taut outback adventure, you'd have to go back to Samson and Delilah to find an Australian feature this bonsa.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Slow-burning but very powerful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Director Ivan Sen's fourth feature evokes old westerns, Polanski's Chinatown and other noir classics, but still feels grounded in the dust and dried blood of the Australian soil.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2014

This sand-blasted Aussie murder mystery tinkers with genre convention while managing to remain sincere and thrilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2014

As a straight-up, "Law & Order"-esque criminal investigation, it's watchable. But lingering shots and half-baked racial commentary overstate the importance of "Mystery Road."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2014

Mystery Road's links to the classic Hollywood western are as obvious as its hero's cowboy boots and white hat but they do nothing to diminish its Australianness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2013

A work of evocative suggestion and concrete detail, a film that uses the genre trappings of the western and the thriller to explore a complex story of crime and indifference.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2013

MYSTERY ROAD is, indeed, a bit of a mystery - but there are so many wonderful elements to the film that you wish the confusions had been ironed out more satisfactorily.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2013