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 3.5/5 |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) |
"Even if you're long past the age of the characters in this film, you can enjoy the world of these girls who want, so badly, to become adults." |
David Stratton |
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4.5/5 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"A witty, elegant and deeply affecting film." |
David Stratton |
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 2.5/5 |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"The predictable story may be enough to keep dog-obsessed children entertained, assuming they don't get distressed by the pups-in-peril aspects, but for adults it's only sporadically entertaining." |
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2.5/5 |
Bonneville (2006) |
"For a film about discovering your own journey, it sure sticks to the main roads." |
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4/5 |
Caramel (2008) |
"It's one of the best films about women you're likely to see this year." |
David Stratton |
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2.5/5 |
The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
"It is missing conviction." |
David Stratton |
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3.5/5 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"Prince Caspian has most of the elements required for a fantasy-action-adventure story, and the book has been intelligently adapted for the screen." |
David Stratton |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"At the core of what is undoubtedly the most intense, and even at times horrific, superhero movie yet made is Ledger's extraordinary performance." |
David Stratton |
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2.5/5 |
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"It has been shot and edited with that hectic, all-too-familiar brand of impressionistic choppiness often used by Hollywood directors to make a silly story unintelligible." |
Evan Williams |
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3.5/5 |
The Edge of Love (2008) |
"An intense and strangely beautiful film..." |
Evan Williams |
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3/5 |
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) |
"I fear many viewers may lose patience. But those who stay to the end of this delicate and beautiful film will be amply rewarded." |
Evan Williams |
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3/5 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"These amiable actors elevate what may otherwise have been a rather ordinary exercise in nostalgia." |
David Stratton |
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2.5/5 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Hancock isn't by any means a dead loss, but it could have been a lot better." |
David Stratton |
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4.5/5 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"It's an exhilarating film, one of the best he has given us." |
Evan Williams |
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3.5/5 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"As the idea is no longer fresh and the plot has basically the same structure, it doesn't quite match the original. But the sequel delivers enough new developments to keep it interesting." |
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3.5/5 |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"It's a film well tuned to its own sense of nostalgia and the images of its time." |
Evan Williams |
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3.5/5 |
Kung Fu Panda (2008) |
"More original plotting could have bolstered this visually magnificent production." |
David Stratton |
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4/5 |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"Leatherheads, which opens with the logo that Universal used back in the 1940s instead of the present one, is so successful at reviving the screwball comedy that you're prepared to forgive it some flaws." |
David Stratton |
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2.5/5 |
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) |
"If further proof were needed of my dispiriting theory that the best novels rarely make the best films, it is to be found, richly scented and sumptuously packaged, in Love in the Time of Cholera." |
Evan Williams |
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3.5/5 |
Mongol (2008) |
"Even the most intense human drama is somehow reduced by the landscape." |
Evan Williams |
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) |
"a startling and very funny new feature-length documentary exploring the outrageous Ozploitation cinema made in Australia in the 1970s and '80s." |
Tony Moore |
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3.5/5 |
The Orphanage (2007) |
"The Orphanage goes beyond the superficialities of the average horror movie to delve into more important themes, such as grief and guilt." |
David Stratton |
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3/5 |
Rats and Cats (2008) |
"Rats and Cats is an excellent example of independent Australian film and deserves to be seen; with a little more care in the development of the story it might have been outstanding." |
David Stratton |
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2.5/5 |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"Here is an unashamed celebration of materialist values, an orgy of labels, brands and product placements as sinful, by implication, as the behaviour of the characters." |
Evan Williams |
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3.5/5 |
Shine a Light (2008) |
"As a concert film it's among the best: intimately shot, smoothly edited, endlessly involving." |
Evan Williams |
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2.5/5 |
Son of Rambow (2008) |
"It's a fun idea, but quite awkwardly staged and, in the end, not particularly engaging." |
David Stratton |
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4/5 |
Standard Operating Procedure (2008) |
"Standard Operating Procedure is a brilliantly, almost self-consciously, stylish film." |
Evan Williams |
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Step Brothers (2008) |
"It's clear that much of what is on the screen is there because writers Ferrell and McKay found it funny, not because it serves the plot." |
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3/5 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"The characters are more likable than usual." |
Evan Williams |
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3/5 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"To its credit, this is a romantic comedy with a more serious side than most. But in her seriousness, Hunt loses sight of the need for laughter." |
David Stratton |
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3.5/5 |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"In the end, despite its flaws, this is a genuinely funny film, and there aren't that many of those around." |
David Stratton |
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4/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"A rich and provocative work of art that manages to be fun." |
Evan Williams |
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2.5/4 |
Wild Child (2008) |
"It's an unoriginal story but one with potential, and the actors who play Poppy's school chums are lively company." |
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1/5 |
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"Occasionally the film is so bad it's almost funny, if you think a scene in which a cat is used as a football is funny." |
David Stratton |
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