Movie review: Tusk
VETERAN US indie filmmaker Kevin Smith tries his hand at a horror flick with Tusk, the story of a bunch of misfits in rural Canada.
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Movie review: The Judge
REVIEW: The Judge brings courtroom drama back to the big screen with two actors of the highest calibre — Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall.
Movie review: Advanced Style
REVIEW: The elderly New York fashion plates of Advanced Style charmingly pay no heed to what’s on trend.
Movie review: Dracula Untold
REVIEW: Dracula Untold ain’t no classic but it’s clear the cast is having a bit of a lark, and that’s no bad thing.
Movie review: Annabelle
REVIEW: Conjuring prequel Annabelle is a solid horror flick but doesn’t live up to the standards of its parent.
Movie review: Gone Girl
REVIEW: Gone Girl is one of the best films that will be released in 2014. But do what you can to see it without any hints.
Movie review: Life of Crime
REVIEW: Life of Crime may be a low-rent version of American Hustle, but Jennifer Aniston and her co-stars will get your attention.
Movie review: The Equalizer
REVIEW: If you love Denzel Washington and action-packed films, The Equalizer is long, but a violent revenge flick you’ll enjoy.
Movie review: The Little Death
REVIEW: Josh Lawson’s jarring comedy The Little Death is erratic and insensitive, despite his attempt at making light of sex, love and the taboo.
Movie review: The Skeleton Twins
REVIEW: The Skeleton Twins soon syncs up to an engaging comic rhythm that will ultimately propel both the film and its audience to a better place.
Your school holiday movie guide
NEED help choosing the most appropriate movie for your kids this school holidays? Movie reviewer Leigh Paatsch has done the hard yards for you.
Movie review: Jodorowsky’s Dune
FILM buffs with a love for cinema’s secret history must make tracks for this extraordinary documentary ASAP.
Movie review: The Maze Runner
IMAGINE a latter-day Lord of the Flies fused with a discarded plot line from TV’s Lost. If you like the sound of that, The Maze Runner is bound to get you in.
Movie review: The Infinite Man
IT’S one of the cleverer, more ambitious and challenging Australian films of recent times. What’s more, The Infinite Man is a comedy.
Movie review: We Are the Best!
IF you are born with the right set of ears, you don’t just listen to punk rock. You live it. That’s the message behind We Are the Best!
Review: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
THINK booze, broads and bullets – Sin City: A Dame To Kill For feels more disjointed than the original Sin City, but there’s not a dull moment.
Movie review: Wish I Was Here
ZACH Braff impressed Hollywood with Garden State, but his new film Wish I Was Here had 60,000 Kickstarter investors, who may be disappointed.
Movie review: The Boxtrolls
THIS stop-motion animated stunner’s calculated combo of the gorgeous and the grotesque is anything but your average child-pleasing cartoon.
Review: Tarzan
THIS cheaply-animated rewrite of the Tarzan legend stars Kellan Lutz, as the famous vine-swinging, loincloth-sporting man of the jungle.
Review: The Immigrant
HEARTBREAK is always but a breath away in The Immigrant, an intense period drama that is as beautiful as it is bleak.
Review: The Giver
HAVEN’T got the stomach for The Hunger Games? Not a fan of Divergent? Try The Giver, which is almost guaranteed to polarise audiences.
Review: Step Up All In
FANS of the Step Up movies will be perfectly content with the hard work — and even harder twerkin’ — that has gone into choreographing this latest instalment.
Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
YOU remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, right? There were the toys, TV shows, movies and yes, the cheese-injected pizzas – now two decades later, they’re back.
Movie review: The Grandmaster
THE martial arts guru behind Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is at the top of his game, but at times, the action is lost.
Movie review: If I Stay
EVEN the acting chops of Chloe Grace Moretz can’t save this low-grade weepie film from being a faulty version of The Fault In Our Stars.
Breathtaking visuals steal the show
HOW to Train Your Dragon 2: Some films hit the ground running. This sequel knows full well it can go one better than that.
No saving Grace. It’s really that bad
GRACE Of Monaco: The bank balances of rich fat cats are at stake. Only Nicole Kidman’s Grace can save the day. What will she do? Don’t ask. What should you do? Don’t watch.
Groundhog Day meets War of the Worlds
EDGE of Tomorrow: It’s the cleverest affair to carry the Cruise brand in years. Even if you’ve written the bloke off, you might just want to take a look.
Woodley faultless in well-balanced weepy
THE Fault in Our Stars: Shailene Woodley gives a pitch-perfect lead performance in a movie that hits the tear ducts of its target audience like a weep-seeking missile.
Jolie casts her spell to save Maleficent
MALEFICENT: It may go down in history as the cheapest-looking $200 million movie ever shot, but an inspired Angelina Jolie stops the rot.
Q: Is MacFarlane’s new movie funny?
A: NOT really. A Million Ways to Die in the West has a gastrically panicked Neil Patrick Harris, some offensive jokes and an ungainly lead. And that’s just the start.
Quality time with a quality human being
GARDENING With Soul: A no-nonsense nonagenarian nun delivers pearls of wisdom in this absorbing and genuinely memorable documentary.
Jolie works her magic in Maleficent
BY THE twenty-minute mark of Maleficent, it looks for all the world as if Angelina Jolie has bet her long-awaited movie comeback on the wrong horse.
ScarJo strips but little’s laid bare
UNDER the Skin: Don’t try to decipher what happens when Scarlett Johansson’s character lures single men to her home. In all likelihood, you will be wrong.
Return Trip even more amusing
THE Trip to Italy: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon serve up a delicious mix of whip-smart, world-weary banter and celebrity impersonation duels.
Portuguese pin-up out to change the world
SON of God: A likable, if limited actor delivers the messiah as a mischievous male model in this well-intentioned biopic.
X-Men mashup lacks the X-Factor
X-MEN Days of Future Past: This joint venture for two major Marvel movie stablemates should be delivering the best of both X-Men worlds, but at times it’s a total drag.
On the way from misery to happiness … uh-uh
SUNSHINE ON LEITH: How these two inspired the Scottish Mamma Mia! — an irrepressibly appealing jukebox musical.
Incredible journey casts powerful spell
IDA: It’s shot in a starkly foreboding black-and-white with long periods of absolute silence but this film is quite simply a masterpiece.
Time travel X-Men lose the plot
IT’S got a ripper cast and the 3D effects are breathtaking. Butsomething’s not quite right with X-Men: Days of Future Past , says Leigh Paatsch.
Tragic tale softens hardest hearts
THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN: This weapons-grade weepie earns each and every tear it is guaranteed to squeeze from the driest of eyeballs.
Parental guidance not recommended
CHILD’S POSE: When her son kills a small boy in a car accident, iron-willed Cornelia will stop at nothing to save him from the consequences in this stunning character study.
Zero Theorem amounts to nothing
THE ZERO THEOREM: The opening shot — Christoph Waltz sitting at his computer in the nude — emits an instant warning sign this movie won’t be playing the crowd-pleasing card.
New Godzilla is cagier and ragier
GODZILLA: It’s a long wait to see the star of the show, but an extended monster v “MUTO” smackdown on the streets of San Francisco will make it worth your while.
One plus one just doesn’t add up
NEW employee James looks exactly like Simon. Even wears the same clothes on the same day. Without fail. So why does no one bother to notice?
Baldwin gets the big names talking
RYAN Gosling ditches the PR puff to reveal plight of the modern actor as Alec Baldwin tackles Hollywood heavyweights in Cannes caper.
True story of pride and prejudice
LESS 12 Years A Slave, more Downton Abbey — this period drama is stuffed to the brim with heated words and frosty glances in lavish drawing rooms.
Big name cast creates tasty morsel
DESPITE a few bland ingredients, the likable Chef serves up plenty of feel-good moments for those with an appetite for such fare.
Blockbuster winter movie guide
IT’S a blockbuster movie season headed our way. Leigh Paatsch previews the monster hits and super successes about to hit our screens.
Ladies’ man answers a hire calling
HERE we have a genial, gentle rom-com with a difference from writer-director John Turturro.
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