Movies & Streaming Reviews
The latest movies & streaming reviews from Jim Schembri, professional film reviewer since 1980.
Top ‘Predator’ reboot with ‘Prey’; Gruelling cave rescue drama ‘Thirteen Lives’; restaurant mayhem in ‘Boiling Point’; More gripping cautionary tales about life online with ‘Web of Make Believe’
Bring it: A Comanche warrior (Amber Midthunder) takes on an alien foe in ‘Prey’. PREY ***1/2 (99 minutes) MA Whoever ...
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Veteran Mark Rylance shines again in tight crime thriller ‘The Outfit’
A stitch in crime: Mark Rylance plays Leonard the cutter in ‘The Outfit’. THE OUTFIT ***1/2 (105 minutes) MA Hot ...
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Choice cuts from MIFF2022: ‘Man on Earth’, an extraordinary end-of-life doco; David Cronenberg returns with the delicious ‘Crimes of the Future’; enjoy the fascinating historical journey of ‘The Lost City of Melbourne’; the remarkable ‘Blaze’ is a truly unique, great Australian film that dives into the mind of a girl who witnesses a rape
Before the shock: Julia Savage in ‘Blaze’. It hasn’t been a great year thus far for Australian feature films, so ...
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Alleged ‘coming-of-age’ film ‘Bosch & Rockit’ ranks as yet another muddled Oz-movie misfire; ‘Girl at the Window’, a horror-comedy fail
Bumpy ride: Luke Hemsworth and Rasmus King play father and son in ‘Bosch & Rockit’. BOSCH & ROCKIT * (107 ...
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British comedy ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ is full of laudable talking points about sex but founders on a sheer lack of believability
Naughty talk: Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’. GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE ...
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REVIEWS Strong Holocaust drama in ‘The Conference’; ‘The Princess’, a good, if biased archival Diana doco; ‘Everybody’s Oma’, a piercing look at the realities of living with dementia; David Bowie doco ‘Moonage Daydream’ a MIFF2022 highlight
Ghastly meeting: Nazis work out the details of the Final Solution” in ‘The Conference’. THE CONFERENCE ***1/2 (107 minutes; subtitled) ...
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With a sluggish pace and a story full of holes, Jordan Peele’s sci-fi clunker ‘Nope’ is essentially ‘Close Encounters of the Bored Kind’
Don’t look up: A UFO harasses a horse ranch in ‘Nope’. NOPE * (126 minutes) M You’ve got to hand ...
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The disaster of Woodstock ’99 is laid bare in ‘Trainwreck’, an absorbing, confessional look into the makings of a concert calamity
The party’s over: Part of the festival aftermath as detailed in ‘Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99’. TRAINWRECK: WOODSTOCK ’99 ***1/2 (three episodes; ...
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Brad Pitt endures the fast action, fast talking and garbled plot of ‘Bullet Train’, a funny, hard-to-follow, easy-to-enjoy thrill ride
One way ticket: Brad Pitt plays a bemused assassin in ‘Bullet Train’ BULLET TRAIN *** (126 minutes) MA Anyone who ...
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Neil Patrick Harris gleams as an abandoned, heart-broken New Yorker in the warm, bittersweet romantic comedy series ‘Uncoupled’
Home alone: Neil Patrick Harris plays a loser in love in ‘Uncoupled’. UNCOUPLED ***1/2 (eight episodes; three hours, 46 minutes) ...
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