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  • Knowing (2009)
    Review preview for Knowing

    What at first seems a simple premise with a dumb-assed popcorn resolution might well unravel in your head into something altogether more resonant and perplexing (or not).

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    A boy finds a time capsule containing deadly predictions, leaving his professor father in a race to avert disaster.
  • Romulus, My Father (2007)
    Review preview for Romulus, My Father

    Builds up an emotional head of steam that draws audiences towards it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Tale of familial love and emotional upheaval in post-war Australia. Touring.

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