Jake Wilson
Jake Wilson is a film critic for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Summer holidays movie special: Our critics’ picks of the flicks
Already seen Wicked? Want a film that will please the family? Our reviewers have you covered from Boxing Day and beyond.
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★★★
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This is a film you can drift through, enchanted and sceptical at once
Starring Celeste Dalla Porta and Gary Oldman, Parthenope takes place in the kind of that world high-end advertising conjures up.
- by Jake Wilson
★★
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Jim Carrey’s showboating double-act can’t save Sonic the Hedgehog 3
The comedian takes on a second role as Dr Robotnik’s lookalike grandpa, which doubles the number of movie characters he’s played this decade.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★½
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Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg collide in this entertaining double act
A Real Pain follows two bickering cousins as they travel to Poland to honour their grandmother.
- by Jake Wilson
★½
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Russell Crowe stuck between credibility and camp in blockbuster shocker
Crowe plays a Russian gangster in Kraven the Hunter, which alternates between entertainingly awful and just terrible.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
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Where Kevin Costner’s vanity Western failed, Viggo Mortensen’s succeeds
The Dead Don’t Hurt taps into the gentler, more lyrical side of the genre, in the spirit of classic Hollywood directors.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★½
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Hugh Grant is seriously scary in his first horror film
At first, Grant doesn’t look like a monster in Heretic, then he pushes his familiar mannerisms into grotesque caricature.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
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Michael Keaton returns to his Mr Mom roots in this old-fashioned slice of life
In Goodrich, he plays a gallery owner who must look after his nine-year-old twins when their mother leaves to go to rehab.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★½
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Confused? That seems to be the whole point of this movie
The plot is familiar in Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, but it comes with a subtle twist.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
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Mescal is the star of Gladiator II, but Denzel Washington steals the show
As the gladiator Lucius, Paul Mescal wisely doesn’t try to emulate Russell Crowe’s swagger in the original film.
- by Jake Wilson
★★
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The Rock’s Christmas comedy is neither naughty nor nice
As seasonal cash-grabs go, Red One is relatively benign – and it never transcends its status as a family-friendly product.
- by Jake Wilson
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