Liang makes an appealing and relatable protagonist, and her character wastes little time kicking seven shades out of the baddies in smoothly choreographed fights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2021

Flood is in many ways spectacular, but it's also very bitter in its depiction of the injustice and violence meted out to Indigenous Australians in the not-too-distant past...

| Dec 16, 2020

The back-and-forth structure is sometimes monotonous, and Wendy's problems take too much focus, but there are specifics that linger.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2020

Hot-button subject matter proves surprisingly less than compelling in Anthony Woodley's The Flood, a film about a British immigration officer interviewing a high-profile detainee.

| Apr 30, 2020

"The Flood" makes a somewhat underwhelming first impression. But it gradually overcomes that to arrive at a potent (if still quiet) cumulative impact...

| Apr 30, 2020

Written by Helen Kingston and directed by Anthony Woodley, the film is well-intentioned and rooted in harrowing real-life stories. Unfortunately, it's made in the style of British television, with cinematic clichés that telegraph outcomes.

| Feb 27, 2020

A careful, studied portrait of one of the most incendiary topics of modern politics.

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

This drama notes the casual indignity with which the government treats displaced people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2019

During the course of the drama, we see changes in this character, the horror and hardship of that plight. Staggering...

| Jun 21, 2019

Directed by Anthony Woodley... this is a resolutely earthbound story, dedicated to the 70 million displaced people around the world, but rarely preachy, and with just enough humanity peeping through the bleakness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2019

A a thoughtful and timely reflection on the humanity within the refugee crisis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2019

It's upstanding, do-gooder cinema with a cagey heroine who eventually comes round.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2019

Everyone is so decent-minded in this bleeding-heart treatise-drama, directed by Anthony Woodley from a script by Helen Kingston, that you want to scream.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2019

It feels glib, programmatic and contrived, particularly the ending, and almost at times like a bien-pensant image of how things are behind the uncaring newspaper headlines.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2019

An understated, lean film, shorn of flashy camerawork or narrative pyrotechnics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2019

Falls to pieces under mild scrutiny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 18, 2019