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  • Australian Rules (2002)
    Review preview for Australian Rules

    What makes the film work is the incredibly earnest acting of the main players.

    Trinity · 3.5 out of 5
    Racial tension hides beneath the surface of a tidy Australian fishing town.
  • Balibo (2009)
    Review preview for Balibo

    Despite its structural instability, Connolly still manages to find plenty of poignancy and to gather an emotional head of steam.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing, a month later a veteran correspondent follows them, determined to find out the truth.
  • Blood Vessel (2019)
    Review preview for Blood Vessel

    This is a B-movie, there's no denying that, but it's a B-movie made with love and no small measure of skill.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Somewhere in the North Atlantic, late 1945. A lift raft adrift at sea, and in it, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship: With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost - until an abandoned German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival.
  • Bronson (2008)
    Review preview for Bronson

    Tom Hardy makes other movie hardmen look like they belong on the Muppet Show.

    Tony Sullivan · 4.5 out of 5
    Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal". Out on re-release.
  • Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
    Review preview for Chernobyl Diaries

    An efficient if inauspicious directorial debut with a horror thriller enlivened by spectacularly oppressive location work but hampered by faddish cliches tailored towards its tech-savvy teen target audience.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    Young holidaymakers get more than they bargain for when they hire an "extreme" tour guide who takes them to the abandoned town where the Chernobyl nuclear reactor employees used to live.
  • Dying Breed (2008)
    Review preview for Dying Breed

    Dwyer has taken this cinematically uncharted landscape and, like the convict runners of old, transported to it all manner of unsavoury foreign elements.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Four friends find out something - or someone - murderous lurks in the rain-slogged Australian bush.
  • Snakes On A Plane (2006)
    Review preview for Snakes On A Plane

    Its confidence is beguiling.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Some snakes. On a plane. What more do you need to know?
  • These Final Hours (2013)
    Review preview for These Final Hours

    A compelling, interesting and well-acted redemption tale.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    The world is about to end and a young man is heading to one last party when he encounters a young girl searching for her father.
  • Wolf Creek (2005)
    Review preview for Wolf Creek

    Australia's finest horror film in years.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Backpackers go looking for hedonism in the Aussie outback... and find horror.

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