An important documentary, particularly with everything going on in this moment...

| Jun 16, 2020

You don't need to be Australian, know a bean about Aussie Rules football or have even heard of its subject, indigenous AFL player Adam Goodes, to walk away from this moving documentary fired up and challenged.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2020

Goodes is now rebuilding his psyche. Less certain is that of Australia, a country that, like others, relies for its self-image on a certain amnesia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2020

Gordon uses blockbuster tools - pairing bold visuals with the kind of thundering sound design that makes your joints rattle - to turn this well-organized sociology lesson into a more visceral cinematic experience.

| Jan 13, 2020

A sobering but emotional reminder of unresolved history.

| Aug 30, 2019

It's an unashamedly polemical film. Grant himself is a pervasive presence on screen, eloquently summarising the state of the nation's moral health and backing up Goodes with the worst of his own experiences as a young Indigenous man.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 20, 2019

The loudest voices are just loud. And this is the surprising and welcome thing about The Australian Dream. In the end, it is a story of optimism and hope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2019

Emotive, inspiring and argumentative, driven by a clear desire for justice and equality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2019

To put it in more emotional terms, if The Final Quarter left you seething at how appalling this country sometimes is, The Australian Dream might have you feeling cautiously optimistic about how good it can be -- if it has the will to try.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 1, 2019