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Flicks.com.au is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Blake Howard, Glenn Dunks, Luke Buckmaster, Sarah Ward, Travis Johnson
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Nightmare Alley (2021)

Travis Johnson

There is no more singular and distinct voice working in mainstream cinema than Guillermo del Toro right now, and Nightmare Alley might be the most thorough explication of his obsessions and themes yet.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
2
Back to the Outback (2021)

Travis Johnson

It actually feels a little mean to dunk on the new Australian CGI animated film Back to the Outback. It ain't great by any stretch of the imagination, but neither is it terrible,
Posted Dec 6, 2021
3
The Protégé (2021)

Travis Johnson

We get plenty of shoot outs, some impressive close quarters combat, and a fantastic fight between Q and Keaton that splits the difference between 'battle to the death' and 'seduction scene'.
Posted Dec 6, 2021
4
Eternals (2021)

Travis Johnson

Well, they can't all be winners. With the arrival of Chloé Zhao's Eternals, somewhere Alan Taylor, director of Thor: The Dark World, is breathing a sigh of relief; he's no longer responsible for the worst Marvel film.
Posted Dec 6, 2021
5
The Card Counter (2021)

Travis Johnson

Are we only the worst thing we've ever done or can we transcend our past transgressions? This is the question at the heart of The Card Counter.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
6
Burning (2021)

Travis Johnson

So here's to Burning: a genuinely great film that won't make a lick of difference.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
7
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Travis Johnson

Grief is inevitable; as we grow older, we'll inevitably attend more funerals than birthday parties, and the reward of a long life is watching everything but your own self be swept away by time and tide. But perhaps love is inevitable as well.
Posted Nov 3, 2021
8
Army of Thieves (2021)

Travis Johnson

Army of Thieves is a brisk, frequently goofy riff on the old heist movie formula. That it takes place in a world about to be plunged into a zombie apocalypse is so incidental as to be almost surplus to requirements.
Posted Nov 2, 2021
9
Halloween Kills (2021)

Travis Johnson

It's a reasonably good time and if we're going to grade on the curve (which the slasher genre, with all its endless sequels, demands), Halloween Kills is one of the better entries into the franchise.
Posted Oct 28, 2021
10
Lamb (2021)

Travis Johnson

As a tone poem Lamb works a treat, but unless you're willing to give yourself over completely, odds are good you'll be more frustrated than entranced.
Posted Oct 24, 2021
11
Nitram (2022)

Travis Johnson

A sublime, thoughtful, and excruciatingly empathetic look at that old sawhorse, the banality of evil.
Posted Oct 1, 2021
12
Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

Glenn Dunks

A movie for queer hims, hers and theys to watch with parents, and for those older viewers to sit and get misty-eyed over what never was for them.
Posted Sep 14, 2021
13
Streamline (2022)

Travis Johnson

An engrossing coming-of-age story and a stunning turn from Levi Miller.
Posted Sep 12, 2021
14
Misha and the Wolves (2021)

Travis Johnson

A film with a gaping hole at its centre, and an intriguing but ultimately frustrating viewing experience.
Posted Aug 18, 2021
15
Kiss or Kill (1997)

Travis Johnson

An experimental, confronting riff on a well-worn genre trope, dripping with atmosphere, and packed with excellent performances.
Posted Aug 16, 2021
16
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

Luke Buckmaster

To get to the final message about What Really Matters we are required to sit through the sensational whoop-de-do of the big game, which seems to go on for an eternity.
Posted Jul 8, 2021
17
Werewolves Within (2021)

Travis Johnson

As you may have guessed, the killer is a werewolf. Maybe that makes it a who-ate-em rather than a whodunnit?
Posted Jul 1, 2021
18
Bound (1996)

Travis Johnson

Bound [is] more than a simple but sexy genre exercise, [it's] a smart and vital classic of modern queer cinema.
Posted Jun 30, 2021
19
Saint Maud (2020)

Travis Johnson

What is more horrifying: the existence of God or His absence?
Posted Jun 29, 2021
20
Great White (2021)

Travis Johnson

'Realism' in a shark flick is a spurious notion; rather, movie sharks are avatars of our primal fear of being further down the food chain than we'd like.
Posted Jun 29, 2021
21
Playing with Sharks (2021)

Travis Johnson

One thing the film does not shy away from is the guilt that many conservationists feel over their early attitudes."
Posted Jun 29, 2021
22
Buckley's Chance (2021)

Travis Johnson

Buckley's Chance offers precisely zero surprises and is steeped in a very clichéd vision of Australia, but it's largely inoffensive and offers the occasional moment of charm.
Posted Jun 29, 2021
23
Land (2021)

Luke Buckmaster

Land is far from terrible but contains a frustrating tension between lightness of touch and explicit heavy-handedness.
Posted May 4, 2021
24
The Mauritanian (2021)

Sarah Ward

Harrowing, moving and infuriated by the inexcusable tactics employed by the so-called leader of the free world, but also consistently boxed in by its conventional choices.
Posted Mar 27, 2021
25
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

Luke Buckmaster

It requires the entering of an unspoken agreement between viewer and filmmaker. Which is: we suffer through interminable human interplay and dialogue pilfered from old instruction manuals, and they deliver scenes of cataclysmic eye-gouging destruction.
Posted Mar 24, 2021
26
Cosmic Sin (2021)

Luke Buckmaster

As for Bruce Willis: despite the Buzz Lightyear getup-or perhaps because of it-this man will not, cannot be hurried, adding to a growing collection of performances in which he barely seems capable of staying awake let alone saving the world.
Posted Mar 16, 2021
27
Chaos Walking (2021)

Luke Buckmaster

The gawkiness of the male adolescent experience seems to seep into everything, from the coarse chemistry between the two leads to the film's jarring perspective on sound-image relations.
Posted Mar 10, 2021
28
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2021)

Sarah Ward

Although this is the lesser of SpongeBob SquarePants' three movie outings thus far, there's no such thing as a bad SpongeBob film.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
29
I'm Your Woman (2020)

Sarah Ward

A neo-noir-leaning crime thriller that finds space for characters that aren't usually given it on multiple levels, values their perspectives and journeys at every turn, and delivers a knockout movie that's complicated, gripping and magnificent.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
30
Sylvie's Love (2020)

Sarah Ward

Every element does what it's supposed to: make the audience feel and swoon.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
31
One Night in Miami (2020)

Sarah Ward

An impassioned interrogation not only of the period, as embodied by this one specific night, but also of the ongoing quest for racial equality in the US.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
32
Dark Whispers - Volume 1 (2019)

Sarah Ward

Never forgets to stitch its individual parts together and brandish an overall perspective.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
33
The Witch of Kings Cross (2020)

Sarah Ward

There's nothing routine about The Witch of Kings Cross-not even its moody dramatisations earn the term.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
34
To All The Boys: Always And Forever (2021)

Sarah Ward

Rom-com cinema gets a box-ticking new entry-cum-tribute that eagerly goes weak at the knees for the genre's fantasies.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
35
I Care a Lot (2021)

Sarah Ward

Pike's not-so-secret skill is her ability to weaponise confidence-and, playing a professional guardian with only her own best interests at heart, she's a cool, calm and collected slap in the face.
Posted Feb 28, 2021
36
Pieces of a Woman (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

It is indeed composed of pieces: one (the birth sequence) much larger than the others. They don't come together as a cohesive whole.
Posted Jan 13, 2021
37
Ammonite (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

The mood is so dour; this solemness-suffused film feels stiff and sad. Even the waves on the beach seem joyless and duty-bound.
Posted Jan 13, 2021
38
D+
Happiest Season (2020)

Glenn Dunks

With caricatures written in broad strokes by DuVall and Holland, they prefer flat slapstick and half-arsed, unfunny attempts at irreverent humour... In many ways it wishes it were Schitt's Creek
Posted Nov 26, 2020
39
Mank (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

Looks lovely and glossy, like a licorice boiled lolly, evoking a gentle sort of nostalgia that rounds the script's pointy corners, assisting in turning what might have been a cynical piece of work into a prolonged and confused hat tip to a bygone era.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
40
Time (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

The film has hymn-like ambience and the texture of a photo album drained of colour, that wistful monochrome look communicating the absence of profound things-the details, the energy, the vibrancy of moments
Posted Oct 22, 2020
41
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

The results are still shocking-more than any of the dick jokes or gags about a woman's "vazhïn"-because it's rooted in a terrible real worldness that has, at its core, nothing to do with the comedian; he's just the force that draws it to the surface.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
42
Totally Under Control (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

The immediacy of the events depicted in Totally Under Control threw a spanner in the works and pushed the filmmakers out of their comfort zone, even resulting in a degree of technological ingenuity-the creation of a portable "COVID-cam"
Posted Oct 13, 2020
43
Dirt Music (2019)

Luke Buckmaster

The vibe is a Nicholas Sparks adaptation with an outback twist, though Jordan was obviously shooting for profundity and visual lyricism
Posted Oct 8, 2020
44
Black Box (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

Director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour's sci-fi thriller takes the theme of missing and distorted memories and gives it an actual, navigable space.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
45
The Lie (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

The director does a fine job building and escalating tension; there is a sense throughout that the director is tightening the screws, reducing the amount of oxygen in the room.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
46
C+
The Boys in the Band (2020)

Glenn Dunks

There is no reflection; no revision. It is as if 50 years have gone by without a single original thought about how to tell this story beyond including flashes of penis.
Posted Oct 4, 2020
47
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

It's not the explosions of batshit craziness that most enthrall but the events leading up to them, when you can sense the walls of logic are going to collapse in on themselves but you can't quite see the fold marks.
Posted Sep 14, 2020
48
The Social Dilemma (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

Pleasant weekend viewing this is not. But it's a must-see documentary and it's important to have this conversation now.
Posted Sep 14, 2020
49
Host (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

It would be a bit rich to describe Host as a metaphor for the fear of isolation, or a metaphor for anything...But it does reflect contemporary forms of powerlessness.
Posted Aug 28, 2020
50
Wendy (2020)

Luke Buckmaster

Wendy is very much a work of atmospheria, sometimes maddening but with a style, a mood, a feeling impossible to shake.
Posted Aug 28, 2020