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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Mayor Pete (2021)

Glenn Dunks

There is no grit on display here or even drama. It's been buffed and glossed to a neatly perfected shine-and the result is transparent as a tool of political propoganda for Buttigieg's inevitable next run as President.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
2
Titane (2021)

Glenn Dunks

On one hand, Titane feels too mature (as if it can't acknowledge the inherent silliness of its concept) and yet not mature enough (like a rebellious teen daring you to react to its antics).
Posted Nov 25, 2021
3
13 Minutes (2021)

Glenn Dunks

If Gossling was trying to say something about diversity in the mid-west as I suspect she was, the cringey dialogue needed to be far less on the nose and her characters not as frustratingly silly.
Posted Nov 21, 2021
4
A-
Tanna (2016)

Glenn Dunks

...a truly one-of-a-kind cinematic experience that thrills both as a marvel of filmmaking, and as a document of a world that, to many of us, would appear to be a land before time, safeguarded from the destructive arrival of the white man.
Posted Jul 19, 2021
5
B+
WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Glenn Dunks

I suspect those whose childhoods are marked by rabbit eared television sets-screening snow-covered local broadcasts and do-it-yourself commercials for local pizza joints or small-town psychics-will find much to enjoy...
Posted Jul 19, 2021
6
A
Ghostwatch (1992)

Glenn Dunks

Perhaps it was ahead of its time, but one of the most successfully convincing hoaxes since Orson Welles's War of the Worlds should probably boast a greater legacy.
Posted Jul 19, 2021
7
A-
New Order (Nuevo orden) (2021)

Glenn Dunks

...a frenetic portal into a (fictional) civil war. Edited with a strong, propulsive energy, it's a film that traverses political and social themes, focusing on race and class in ways that are hardly subtle, yet thoroughly engaging.
Posted Jun 2, 2021
8
Jungle (2017)

Glenn Dunks

The changing dynamics of their friendship - especially Jackson's impressive portrayal of a physically depleted adventurer whose polished demeanour gradually unravels - give Jungle's second act a particularly vibrant hum of tension...
Posted May 2, 2021
9
Ecco Homo (2015)

Glenn Dunks

Lowenstein and Milburn's film does a great job of revealing not only the depth of this attitude, but also the increasingly labyrinthine lair of lies that Davies had created to mask it. He could barely tell the same lie twice...
Posted May 2, 2021
10
B+
A River Changes Course (2013)

Glenn Dunks

Rather than discussing the Khmer Rouge, Mam's film instead focuses on the little-seen world of the country's provincial population...
Posted May 2, 2021
11
A+
The Missing Picture (2014)

Glenn Dunks

...somehow turns clay into an emotionally captivating storytelling device that, when combined with the emotive French-language narration of Randal Douc and hypnotic musical score of Marc Marder, makes for a truly astounding work of cinema.
Posted May 2, 2021
12
Exil (2016)

Glenn Dunks

Cambodian expat director Rithy Panh's latest work is a haunting, dreamlike piece of cinema that masterfully dislodges the audience from any clear sense of time or space.
Posted May 1, 2021
13
B-
You Cannot Kill David Arquette (2020)

Glenn Dunks

Real, completely fiction, or some sort of elaborate half-breed hoax like Joaquin Phoenix in I'm Not There, the experience of watching You Cannot Kill David Arquette is an entirely perplexing one.
Posted Sep 13, 2020
14
A
State Funeral (2019)

Glenn Dunks

Sergei Loznitsa's 135-minute triumph is a beast of a film and one with its roots firmly in Soviet documentary... a herculean effort of archival dumpster diving
Posted Aug 24, 2020
15
B
Girls Lost (Pojkarna) (2015)

Glenn Dunks

The use of the fantastical could have easily verged on twee, but instead offers its characters and the audience the sort of movie magic that can open minds.
Posted Aug 8, 2020
16
B
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau) (2017)

Glenn Dunks

Already notorious for a lengthy gay sex club orgy sequence that opens the film, Paris 05:59 proves to be much more than just a titillating night out for the boys (the characters and the audience)...
Posted Jul 26, 2020
17
B+
Kiki (2017)

Glenn Dunks

Kiki is a film that celebrates some of the bravest members of the LGTBQ universe and in many ways the film demands that we absolutely must continue to be as bold and brave as them.
Posted Jul 26, 2020
18
B+
Berlin Syndrome (2017)

Glenn Dunks

Berlin Syndrome posits actual answers for the terrible questions people ask of sexual-violence survivors. And, significantly, it addresses them through a riveting piece of art cinema made not-so-coincidentally with women in key production roles.
Posted Jul 18, 2020
19
C+
Adore (2013)

Glenn Dunks

Its Australian title, 'Adoration', sounds as flat on the tongue and unsure of itself as the actual film. Anne Fontaine never finds the right voice for her film's message and ends up with this disappointing, albeit handsomely made, effort.
Posted Jul 18, 2020
20
A
The Assistant (2020)

Glenn Dunks

But in [Kitty Green's] treatment of Garner's Jane, a woman who is told to not worry about being sexually confronted by her boss because she's "not his type", she has clearly tapped into a well of stark reality that is rarely portrayed on screen.
Posted Jul 2, 2020
21
B-
The Eulogy (2018)

Glenn Dunks

As a film that shines a spotlight on a curious moment of Australian cultural history, it is certainly an interesting story and one that Hosking was wise to let unfold in as unfussy of a way as possible.
Posted Oct 16, 2019
22
B+
The Nightingale (2019)

Glenn Dunks

But the blood and the trauma is just one part of The Nightingale. It is an amazingly rendered work of cinema
Posted Aug 28, 2019
23
A-
Support the Girls (2018)

Glenn Dunks

It's sweet, but not syrupy; it's truthful, but not cynical. It's a breath of fresh air, accessible, and a real gem of American independent filmmaking...
Posted Aug 28, 2018
24
C+
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Glenn Dunks

The savagery that Lee is capable of shaved down for a demographic that aren't accustomed to the evolving, bold electricity of Do the Right Thing or Bamboozled and instead in many ways resembles something closer to a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Posted Aug 12, 2018
25
B
You're Killing Me (2015)

Glenn Dunks

What results is a vibrant and fresh film, a unique entry into any queer film festival that at often times can take itself too seriously. It's a perfect Friday night movie with even more laughs than bloody corpses.
Posted Mar 30, 2016
26
A-
Nasty Baby (2015)

Glenn Dunks

It adds further shading to this already multi-dimensional world and should hopefully make audiences question their own reactions as well as their thoughts on class, privilege and ultimately their own personal morality.
Posted Sep 29, 2015
27
B
Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

Glenn Dunks

[It's] a celebration of one actor who somehow made it out alive and whose story is still, sadly, a powerful one to tell.
Posted Sep 29, 2015
28
B+
Cut Snake (2015)

Glenn Dunks

In Tony Ayres' Cut Snake, the true blue Aussie crime flick gets a queer coat of paint. It masks itself as a standard crime flick, but subverts what we have come to expect from these films...
Posted Sep 29, 2015
29
B+
A Poem Is A Naked Person (2015)

Glenn Dunks

Blank isn't afraid of the artistic wrath that he may incur and rather than making a Leon Russell film, has made what is defiantly a Les Blank film full of all of the idiosyncrasies that one would expect.
Posted Aug 12, 2015
30
B+
Magic Mike XXL (2015)

Glenn Dunks

[If] what you want is playfulness, energy, goofy glee, and a complete and utter lack of pretentiousness then Magic Mike is a Trojan (Horse) full of fun.
Posted Jul 10, 2015
31
B
Amy (2015)

Glenn Dunks

Watch alongside Montage of Heck and just feel miserable about what the world missed out on but be thankful of what they left behind.
Posted Jul 2, 2015
32
B-
Jurassic World (2015)

Glenn Dunks

When the script isn't simply recreating famous scenes from the original with less engaging characters who speak a lot and yet say so very little, it's blindly ignoring plot holes and conjuring up half-baked ideas...
Posted Jul 2, 2015
33
B+
Terminator Genisys (2015)

Glenn Dunks

What's different [to Jurassic World] is that this entry into the series has a desire to build its own future, its own timeline of events from amongst all the references and mythos and sly nods to the previous films.
Posted Jul 2, 2015
34
B+
Strangerland (2015)

Glenn Dunks

I was deeply impressed by Strangerland and likely for many of the reasons that others have not.
Posted Jun 15, 2015
35
B+
54 (1998)

Glenn Dunks

[The Director's Cut] is out and proud, not at all shying away from the sexual aggression of Phillippe's character as he calmly removes his clothes for any gender.
Posted Jun 15, 2015
36
C+
Poltergeist (2015)

Glenn Dunks

Instead of a reboot that takes advances in technology, the ever-expanding suburban sprawl or a clear audience desire for haunted houses, we're left with little more than a faded photocopy.
Posted Jun 7, 2015
37
B+
Partisan (2015)

Glenn Dunks

This is a film of great restraint, one that chooses to take its time observing through the eyes of its young protagonist...
Posted May 28, 2015
38
A
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Glenn Dunks

It turns out we do need another hero, and it comes in the guise of George Miller.
Posted May 15, 2015
39
B+
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

Glenn Dunks

A fitting tribute to the zany worlds of Jacques Tati and his unspoken, bumbling Monsieur Hulot as well as the silent movie stars and comedies that came from the silent era onwards.
Posted May 6, 2015
40
B+
The Tribe (2015)

Glenn Dunks

It's a tough film ... and one that makes its audience feel as lost in its characters' world as its characters might well be in ours.
Posted May 6, 2015
41
A-
Hungry Hearts (2015)

Glenn Dunks

It took ahold of my mind in such a way that I found myself constantly thinking about it long after the screening. I couldn't get its images out of my head, its twisted tale of unconventional horror making me feel uncomfortable long after the credits.
Posted Apr 21, 2015
42
B-
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Glenn Dunks

Despite the overall enjoyment factor of the film, with this, its eleventh film, writer-director Joss Whedon seems intent on pushing some of Marvel Films' more tiresome elements to the extreme.
Posted Apr 21, 2015
43
B
The Water Diviner (2015)

Glenn Dunks

If [Crowe's] performance wasn't as strong as it is then The Water Diviner simply wouldn't work at all and it would be harder to forgive some of his less impressive directorial judgements.
Posted Apr 17, 2015
44
C-
Unbroken (2014)

Glenn Dunks

At least one can give the film points for consistency as this humdrum sentimentality certainly extends to the music with an appalling, pandering original credits song by Coldplay.
Posted Dec 23, 2014
45
B
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

Glenn Dunks

It's a figure-eight effect where the shifting sands of the story make our loyalties and our readings of the central mystery ebb and flow. It's a work of wonderful manipulation...
Posted Oct 30, 2014
46
B+
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

Glenn Dunks

The Town that Dreaded Sundown is perhaps the first of its kind: it is both a sequel and a remake, and in both cases it improves upon its original.
Posted Oct 20, 2014
47
B+
Camp X-Ray (2014)

Glenn Dunks

[The] film succeeds in following a grand tradition of cinema that doesn't necessarily expose the folly of war, yet rather the more specific folly of sending young, still red-in-the-cheek soldiers into a war zone.
Posted Oct 20, 2014
48
B+
Stations of the Elevated (2014)

Glenn Dunks

Kirchheimer appears more interested in the way the subway interacts with urban life, cutting through neighbourhoods like a scalpel through flesh and how people have taken to the individual subway cars as canvases to educate, provoke, and infuriate.
Posted Oct 17, 2014
49
A-
Canopy (2014)

Glenn Dunks

Canopy is a movie rich of its own world, an 80-minute work of filmmaking that rises above mere war or survival films and becomes something unique.
Posted Sep 1, 2014
50
B-
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)

Glenn Dunks

I just wish that, given it's a film about art, Through a Lens Darkly had taken a bit more of an artistic method to its message.
Posted Aug 21, 2014