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"Comic potential is frittered away by lazy plotting that requires Esther to jump through only the most perfunctory of hoops while hiding the secret from her family." -- Variety
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)n/a
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"Heavy on CGI slapstick and light on meaningful emotional content." -- Variety
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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"This film-school grad project does rep an arresting debut for British-based German helmer Laurin Federlein." -- Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007)60%
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"Though occasionally too caught up with bold visuals and a complex audioscape, this mood piece has a suspenseful storyline and enough fleshed-out characters to maintain interest." -- Variety
Posted Dec 5, 2007
 
Modern Love (2006)n/a
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"A competent horror filmed in eye-catching Aussie outback locations." -- Variety
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Rogue (2008)100%
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"Plot and character rarely rise above functional, but the screenplay does have some intriguing psychosexual undercurrents, and [director Chris] Graham produces enough vigorous action to leave genre buffs satisfied, if not ecstatic." -- Variety
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Ferryman (2007)n/a
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"A finely chiseled drama about an unstable Chinese mother struggling to reconcile her desires with her children's needs in early '70s Australia, The Home Song Stories speaks bittersweet truths about life in the Chinese diaspora." -- Variety
Posted Aug 25, 2007
 
The Home Song Stories (2007)n/a
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"Centered on an ordinary young woman-turned-rescuer of victims, pic's integrity and committed performances should spark strong fest interest and generate discussion of a supremely ugly subject." -- Variety
Posted Aug 11, 2007
 
The Jammed (2007)n/a
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"Armed with more imagination than most thrillers with teen protags, Oz-U.K. co-prod Like Minds is an intriguing whodunit centered on two privileged British schoolboys with an unhealthy interest in the Knights Templar." -- Variety
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Murderous Intent (2006)29%
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"The acting process is joyously celebrated in Casting About, a captivating documentary shot entirely in audition rooms during the search for three thesps for a feature film." -- Variety
Posted May 8, 2007
 
Casting About (2007)63%
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"The first feature in an Australian Aboriginal language feels authentic to the core as it tells a cautionary tale set 1,000 years ago." -- Variety
Posted Apr 23, 2007
 
Ten Canoes (2007)98%
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"Loaded with underdog heroics and bursting with youthful enthusiasm, Hula Girls may be utterly predictable but it sure is a lot of fun." -- Variety
Posted Oct 17, 2006
 
Hula Girls (2007)50%
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"Oversupplied with particularly nasty bloodletting and underdone as an involving portrait of one of the Bard's mightiest and most psychologically intriguing tragic figures." -- Variety
Posted Sep 13, 2006
 
Macbeth (2007)48%
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"This adaptation of Elliot Perlman's 1998 novel shifts uneasily at times around weighty themes, but its essential humanism still strikes chords." -- Variety
Posted Sep 8, 2006
 
Three Dollars (2006)n/a
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"[A]n illuminating meditation on that deepest of Buddhist philosophical concerns -- impermanence." -- Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2006
 
Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006)55%
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"Pacy, broad-based overview of the punk rock scene from 1977 to present packages a who's who of luminaries and rare performance clips into a vibrant proof-of-life statement underpinned by keen analysis of sociopolitical issues." -- Variety
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Punk's Not Dead (2007)88%
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"Kokoda is long on the muddy-bloody details of jungle warfare and short on fleshed­-out characters." -- Variety
Posted May 6, 2006
 
Kokoda (2007)n/a
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"An imaginative, humorous and truthful contemplation of human reaction to the inexplicable." -- Variety
Posted May 5, 2006
 
Look Both Ways (2006)77%
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"A consistently involving character study." -- Variety
Posted Jan 18, 2006
 
Jewboy (2005)n/a
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"Hillcoat and Cave have here found their most fertile ground yet for allegory-rich examinations of life and death in remote, pressure-cooker environments." -- Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2005
 
The Proposition (2006)86%
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"A well-observed study of outsiders distinguished by precise performances from a well-cast ensemble." -- Variety
Posted Jul 28, 2005
 
Oyster Farmer (2005)59%
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"The story is a fascinating one and it sustains interest throughout but the telling is heavy handed." -- Urban Cinefile
Posted Sep 10, 2001
 
Amistad (1997)78%
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"Writer-director Patricia Rozema has made significant alterations to the original text and her instincts have worked superbly." -- Urban Cinefile
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Mansfield Park (1999)75%
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"There's just not quite enough before the showpiece to make it memorable as a whole." -- Urban Cinefile
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Perfect Storm (2000)47%

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