Search: Starring Tom Budge

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.
Better Man (2024)

Review preview for Better Man

Film's ability to change scale and scope turns Better Man from a jukebox musical into something at once more and less personal.

Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5

A documentary portrait of pop music superstar Robbie Williams.
Candy (2006)
A junkie poet falls in love.
Judy And Punch (2019)

Review preview for Judy And Punch

There's layer upon layer of clever artifice here, yet the result is something that feels fresh and sexy.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

Puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
Kokoda: 39th Battalion (2006)

Review preview for Kokoda: 39th Battalion

Biting and gripping Grierson doesn't skimp on the gore and displays war how it really is, grimy, gritty and extremely bloody.

Darren Amner · 3 out of 5

Australian forces clash with the Japanese during the Second World War.
The Proposition (2005)

Review preview for The Proposition

Cave's screenplay is full of rich incidents, impossible moral choices and, most of all, complex characters, brought to grimy life by the excellent ensemble cast.

Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5

In the 1880s, an Australian outlaw is offered a pardon if he tracks down and kills his psychotic elder brother.
Son Of A Gun (2014)

Review preview for Son Of A Gun

It's a pity the plot doesn't offer more in the way of surprises

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5

Heist thriller about a tough young hoodlum who teams up with a ruthless con and finds himself attracted to a smart, street-savvy young woman.