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  • Australia (2008)
    Review preview for Australia

    Australia undercuts its cinematic insecurities with heart, soul and imagination.

    James Benefield · 2.5 out of 5
    Sprawling epic sees English toff and drover bond over cattle and kids.
  • Aquamarine (2006)
    Two teenage girls discover a mermaid stranded in a pool after a storm.
  • Backtrack (2015)
    Review preview for Backtrack

    Brody invests his character with much more depth than is there on the page.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A psychotherapist discovers a horrifying secret about his patients that leads him on a journey to confront his past.
  • The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
    Review preview for The Cars That Ate Paris

    The Cars That Ate Paris is no ordinary horror film.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Trouble brews for a stranger in a town where car crashes seem to be a little too frequent.
  • The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (2010)
    Review preview for The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

    It's true that Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - as with all CS Lewis books - lionises God in more ways than one, but Christians are not the sole proprietors of the moral lessons learned.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The Pevensie children and their brattish cousin Eustace are whisked back to Narnia on a quest.
  • Dark City (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City

    What [director Proyas] does here is juggle genres and lop the dead cells from the brains of old cliches.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Film noir plotting meets a fiendish science fiction underworld in an extravagant fantasy.
  • Dark City: Director's Cut (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City: Director's Cut

    A stylish and engrossing mystery - an immature, yet energetic explosion of storytelling ideas.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Extravagant sci-fi fantasy about a hunted man struggling with his memory gets a directorial polish.
  • The Dry (2020)
    Review preview for The Dry

    There's also enough mystery retained to allow a viewer the satisfaction of perhaps being just a moment or two ahead of the film's revelations without making them either overly obvious or obscure.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A big city cop returns to his childhood farming community after a murder-suicide and finds himself haunted by his own past secrets.
  • Mystery Road (2013)
    Review preview for Mystery Road

    Sen has crafted a tense thrill ride without ever forgetting his roots.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An Aboriginal cop returns to his home town to investigate the murder of a teenage girl.

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