This is as insightful a glimpse into a country's cinema as you're likely to see at this running time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2009

It's all very foul, and completely entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Not Quite Hollywood is jammed with well-preserved clips of the Aussie movies that started pushing the limits after censorship was essentially dropped in 1971.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2009

If Not Quite Hollywood is not quite convincing, it is quite entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2009

What's cool and always kicky is seeing a country's irreverent movie trash being treated with such, well, reverence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009

All in all, this is a celebration of Australian exuberance, a national ethic of adventurousness and enormous charisma.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2009

Although Not Quite Hollywood was clearly put together with fanatical love, the suspicion remains, as often with genre cinema, that these trash-rich movies are a lot more fun to hear about, and to watch in snatches, than to sit through.

| Aug 3, 2009

There are clips from more than 80 movies crammed into 100 consistently hilarious and jaw-dropping minutes, from soft- and hard-core porn to cheesy , gory horror movies to biker and car chase movies that make The Fast and the Furious look positively tame.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2009

It's a kicky, slightly exhausting look at a bygone era of low-rent moviemaking, whose colorful trove of film clips should delight fans of cinematic esoterica, nostalgic schlock and high octane drive-in fare.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2009

This film is an affectionate, rollicking guide to the drive-in classics of Australian filmmaking from the 1970s and '80s.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2009

A survey of the week wouldn't be complete without a left-handed salute -- not to be confused with a backhanded compliment -- to the gleeful rubbish of Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

Full Review | Jul 31, 2009

Think of Not Quite Hollywood as a vividly illustrated catalogue of astonishing smut.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 30, 2009

If Mad Max (a rare stateside success) is the only Down Under-and-dirty flick you remember, you missed out on a vital drive-in culture, one that Mark Hartley's Not Quite Hollywood does a suitably supercharged job of chronicling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2009

Not Quite Hollywood returns us to a time when the price of admission was cheap and the thrills even cheaper.

| Jul 30, 2009

Its shallowness is nonetheless in tune with its subject: the gory, violent, sex-crazed Australian exploitation films of the '70s and '80s.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2009

Cheerfully celebrates the energy and creativity of this subculture, and wants to rescue it from the toffee-nosed pundits who looked down on the genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2009

There is a remarkable story to be told of outlaws carving out their own slice of the industry with scant regard for decorum, personal safety or narrative coherence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2009

The end product, while shallow and sometimes disconcertingly furtive, offers an enlightening, pleasurable peek into one of cinema's more enticing dark corners.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Mar 13, 2009

Aussie genre pics of the 1970s and '80s get a rip-roaring salute in Not Quite Hollywood.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Hartley's own film is much livelier than most of those he is out to celebrate -- partly because of its abundance of genuinely hair-raising behind-the-scenes footage.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2008