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  • 2:37 (2006)
    Review preview for 2:37

    A remarkably well made film that makes no compromises to the romantic tradition of high school happy endings.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Emotions bleed at an Aussie high school.
  • Adore (2013)
    Review preview for Adore

    The situation is played with an off-hand glibness that barely leaves a lipstick mark on the surface of what the quartet are doing.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A pair of lifelong friends fall for one another's sons.
  • Blonde (2022)
    Review preview for Blonde

    After we take aside all well-intentioned intellectualising, and all the nice-looking shots, what we have are almost three hours of over-aestheticised torture.

    Nikola Jovic · 3.5 out of 5
    A fictionalised chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.
  • Elvis (2022)
    Review preview for Elvis

    Where Luhrmann and Butler score are in the concert sequences in which the King truly comes alive.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Biopic about the star and his manager.
  • Fury (2014)
    Review preview for Fury

    Ayer’s film doesn’t really have the script or plot to back up all the hardware.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    A battle-hardened sergeant takes a crew on a deadly mission in the last days of the Second World War.
  • The Loved Ones (2009)
    Review preview for The Loved Ones

    A joyous genre mash-up of John Hughes-style adolescent anxieties and drill-bit depravities (call it 'torture prom'), all married in McLeavy's wonderfully unhinged turn as a pretty-in-pink princess of perversion.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The father of teenager Lola will go to any lengths to get her the boy of her dreams... including kidnap and torture. Plus read our with Robin McLeavy.
  • Love & Friendship (2016)
    Review preview for Love & Friendship

    Whitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    A widowed woman tries to manipulate her daughter into marriage.
  • Road Train (2010)
    Review preview for Road Train

    Francis positively relishes taking his viewers on deranged, demonic detours down uncharted byroads of body horror, too, with grand guignol as icky as it is utterly irrational.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Supernatural chiller sees a camping trip to the outback turn sour.
  • The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
    Review preview for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

    As far as teen fantasy movies go, Eclipse is pretty good.

    Susanna Krawczyk · 3.5 out of 5
    As tensions escalate between the vampires and the werewolves, Bella is forced to choose between the two most important men in her life.

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