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Overland

Overland is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Lauren Carroll Harris
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Stranger by the Lake (2014)

Tara Judah

In many ways, adhering as it does to semiotic storytelling and other visual tropes, this is a typical genre film. It's also daring and extremely good.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
2
The Loneliest Planet (2012)

Tara Judah

A far cry from the limitlessness of experimenta and the deliberately jarring and abrasive aesthetic of the avant-garde, Loktev's visual style fits with an atypical narrative mode.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
3
Stories We Tell (2013)

Tara Judah

Sarah Polley's funny and engaging documentary is also intelligent - academically and emotionally.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
4
Le passé (The Past) (2013)

Tara Judah

The film questions responsibility and shows how sometimes people do the wrong thing. It is begs the question: what exactly is the right thing, and how can we recognise it?
Posted Jan 30, 2019
5
A Touch of Sin (2013)

Tara Judah

A Touch of Sin puts together a picture of social unrest, class injustices and violent response bubbling just beneath the surface. Each story is loosely connected but the real link is a brewing anger levelled at an unfair social system.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
6
The Selfish Giant (2013)

Tara Judah

A social-realist contemporary re-working of Oscar Wilde's children's tale of the same name, this film is unapologetically miserable, gritty, British cinema. And it's brilliant.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
7
Something in the Air (2013)

Tara Judah

I love that Assayas keeps me on my toes and I look forward to his next hot potato.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
8
Beyond The Hills (2013)

Tara Judah

The film's greatest strength is its constant insistence on ambiguity. Almost nothing is explicit and as a result, everything the viewer thinks, feels and judges is based on inference, allusion and their own prejudices and convictions.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
9
Salinger (2013)

Tara Judah

Beyond its disturbing aspersions cast on mental illness, the film tells a story that is inherently flawed by the absence of its own key player.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
10
Lovelace (2013)

Tara Judah

Lovelace is structurally sound, telling the popular Hollywood version of events before re-tracing some of its steps and revealing a glimpse of the violence that went on behind the scenes.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
11
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013)

Tara Judah

Though informative, [it does] little more than pile up in the waste bin of my cinema-going life.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
12
The Act Of Killing (2013)

Tara Judah

Beyond this intellectual actualisation, I can't help but think that the film falls short of its supposed brilliance. Surely watching socially or politically charged documentaries should achieve something more than cognition!
Posted Jan 7, 2019
13
Beloved Sisters (2015)

Tara Judah

...engaging and even arty enough to satisfy.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
14
Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2014)

Tara Judah

I loved it. I knew before it began that I would.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
15
Hannah Arendt (2013)

Tara Judah

Von Trotta's film is neither profound, nor radical. It belongs to that grand dramatic tradition that trivialises and sentimentalises history until all that's left is a series of generic conventions.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
16
Metro (2013)

Tara Judah

If we were to break down the message it would read: If only Russian women - beautiful, sexy trophies though they are - were less deceptive and more domestic, the nation wouldn't face this crisis in the first place.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
17
The Tower (2012)

Tara Judah

Ta-weo is surely the stupidest film I will see all year so I won't spend too much time explaining its Swiss cheese plot.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
18
Metamorphosen (2013)

Tara Judah

Slow, reflective portraiture...
Posted Jan 7, 2019
19
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

Tara Judah

There are limits to how much control the men directing can exert.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
20
Nightcrawler (2014)

Tara Judah

Nightcrawler attacked the mainstream media and the global financial crisis and the social inequities that create an undereducated class of internet-only consumers.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
21
Boyhood (2014)

Tara Judah

Boyhood spanned everything and nothing in 2014's most joyous examination of the passage of time.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
22
John Wick (2014)

Tara Judah

...my truly guilty pleasure of the year.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
23
Snowpiercer (2014)

Tara Judah

Convolution is preferable in an age where repetition and over-expository presentation is king.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
24
The Babadook (2014)

Tara Judah

The Babadook...is a brilliant manifestation of grief.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
25
12 Years a Slave (2013)

Tara Judah

12 Years a Slave also means that there is finally a film about slavery in America that is not told only through white people's eyes.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
26
Charlie's Country (2015)

Tara Judah

David Gulpilil stole my heart with his performance in Charlie's Country, an Australian film that represents Indigenous culture in a way that is not told solely from a white perspective.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
27
52 Tuesdays (2015)

Tara Judah

52 Tuesdays brought honesty to the screen.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
28
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)

Tara Judah

I do wonder why one of the highest-profile films about a lesbian relationship starred two straight actresses and was directed by a man.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
29
Kill the Messenger (2014)

Tara Judah

Kill the Messenger was, in my opinion, one of the more solid dramas in this year's local release schedule.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
30
Birdman (2014)

Tara Judah

Inarritu gives us cause to pause but, like so much great cinema that refuses to be absorbed in a single viewing, he doesn't allow us the time in which to do it.
Posted Jan 7, 2019