Moorhouse's willingness to push the envelope and dive into the darkest aspects of the tale with such macabre relish allows the emotions swirling within this maelstrom to resonate all the deeper.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2016

There's plenty to admire here, especially if your taste is tailored to the unusual.

| Original Score: B | Sep 30, 2016

The Dressmaker's twists are best experienced blind, and its treats are modest but genuine.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2016

Whatever were they smoking?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2016

Kate Winslet can do anything ... except save this movie from quirky overkill.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2016

The film has so many moodswings that watching it induces whiplash, and just about everybody in it, from Winslet on down to Judy Davis, playing the dressmaker's crotchety mother, flagrantly overdoes it.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2016

The second Winslet sets her sewing machine on the ground and snarls, "I'm back, you bastards," we're delighted to hear we're in for something fun.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 23, 2016

Positively explodes with a surfeit of pent-up creative energy that unfortunately doesn't know when to stop.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2016

Alternately wildly funny, wildly romantic, wildly satiric, and, at the same time, dark and tragic

| Original Score: B | Sep 22, 2016

There are giggles to be had -- especially given the talents of cast members like Winslet, Davis, Hemsworth and Weaving -- but the laughs are not quite plentiful enough to make up for its awkward contrivances.

| Sep 22, 2016

This confused and overlong film inhabits a world of caustic darkness that not even an expert seamstress could patch over with silly pratfalls.

| Sep 22, 2016

Unfortunately, and despite its promising start, "The Dressmaker" doesn't move much beyond the level of well-costumed playacting.

| Sep 22, 2016

The Dressmaker may be a revenge comedy, but it never quite conforms to our expectations of what that should mean. And that seems to be exactly how Moorhouse wants it.

| Sep 22, 2016

The Titanic is now the second-biggest disaster Kate Winslet has ever been associated with.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 22, 2016

The tone repeatedly flips from quirky to woeful. The costumes are gorgeous, though.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2016

Emotionally garbled.

| Sep 22, 2016

Overplotted, undercooked and extremely well-dressed, "The Dressmaker" has style to burn, but it has a mean streak as wide as the Outback.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2016

Winslet and Davis salvage what they can from the movie - a heroic effort, almost, making it a fun trifle, albeit one with some deadly serious overtones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2016

Perhaps it's meant to be somehow mythic, but mostly The Dressmaker is just cruel.

| Sep 22, 2016

It might not all flow, but between Winslet and castmate Judy Davis's various spitfire moments and some potent dark turns, there's a fair amount to like.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2016