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With an interesting premise & gorgeous visuals, A Cure For Wellness sadly gets bogged down by its 130 minute runtime and poor story delivery.
Though with timely themes and a fine cast/director, The Circle attempts to do too much with its material, instead ending up as lost potential.
Small Crimes’s script fails to capture the continuity of Zeltserman’s novel, and Katz doesn’t make the transition any smoother at the helm.
Berlin Syndrome is aligned with many kidnapping narratives, but it suffers from an unfocused approach, but in subject and character focus.
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The Bar is a predictable story that constantly betrays its established characters in order to service the cynical narrative.
City of Tiny Lights reflects urban British society as it really is, with culturally diverse characters and communities at its heart.
Unforgettable is an attempt at a provocative erotic thriller, but it relies on overused tropes and cheap parlor tricks to get it done,
Two great performances are wasted in Rupture, a mess of a horror movie which sets up mysteries it doesn’t even know how to answer.
The stale found footage genre is revitalised with ambitious anthology film The Dark Tapes, a stunning directorial debut from Michael McQuown.
Jasper Jones, Rachel Perkins’ sweet coming-of-age story about racism in a rural town, is one of the best Australian films of recent years.
Though inspired by the erotic thrillers of the ’90s, Bad Girl ultimately fails to do anything original or exciting with its material.
Reservoir Dogs, though seemingly a time capsule due to having premiered 25 years ago, is actually quite potent in today’s post-truth world.
It’s no fun to criticise an aspiring filmmaker’s low budget passion project- but when the result is as misguided as Quarries, it’s necessary.
Ghost in the Shell is full of visual splendor, yet ultimately lacks the originality or prowess of the original Japanese anime film.