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Glenn Dunks

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Biography:

Glenn Charlie Dunks is an award-winning film critic from Melbourne, Australia. He has written for print and online outlets in Australia and the United States for nearly two decades including Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Metro, The Film Experience, Paradise Magazine, The Big Issue, ScreenHub and Junkee. In 2025, he launched redocumented, a new website dedicated to reviews of documentaries exclusively. He has also appeared on many podcasts as well as being a regular film contributor to Joy 94.9, Australia's first and only LGBTQI+ community radio station. He is the winner of two Australian Film Critics Association awards.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) EDIT “Time is All You've Got is hagiography in conception, sure, but Shaw as an interview subject is honest and open... It's a refreshing change of pace.” – Glenn Dunks May 25, 2025 Full Review Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (2025) EDIT “Missing the point and ignoring the realities of 30 years of American political upheaval is real big fumble.” – Glenn Dunks May 25, 2025 Full Review Light of the Setting Sun (2024) EDIT “Softly directed—I was reminded a bit of Yance Ford’s Strong Island; not a bad thing at all—I am nonetheless curious about what Du could do with a larger canvas and her own inclusion pulled back to squarely behind the camera...” – Glenn Dunks May 25, 2025 Full Review Drop Dead City (2024) 92% EDIT “What we do have here is a lot (and I do mean a lot) of old white guys talking about economics and political bureaucracy. There is an infinitely more interesting movie buried in here.” – Glenn Dunks May 25, 2025 Full Review 2073 (2024) 49% EDIT “Doomscrolling: The Movie. ” – Glenn Dunks Apr 14, 2025 Full Review American Symphony (2023) 94% EDIT “That we’re too often showed Batiste winning awards and getting standing ovations while [his partner] battles cancer in hospital over any real meaningly observations from her makes it particularly hard to latch onto.” – The Film Experience Dec 22, 2023 Full Review Sam Now (2022) 90% EDIT “Reed Harkness’s Sam Now is really something special. A debut that taps into an achingly sad story within his own family, covering decades of pain and the smiles used to cover it up. I could not take my eyes off of it...” – The Film Experience Dec 10, 2023 Full Review Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022) 100% EDIT “It’s a movie that all but lets you feel the dirt under your fingernails and the earth under your feet. Without even being there, it’s impossible to not feel the connection and therefore understand why this story is so vitally important. ” – The Film Experience Dec 10, 2023 Full Review The Eternal Memory (2023) 92% EDIT “It’s lopsided, and by emphasizing one half of her story over the other, Alberdi ends up doing a disservice to her subjects.” – The Film Experience Dec 10, 2023 Full Review Last Stop Larrimah (2023) 86% EDIT “Tancred wisely keys us into the rhythms of Larrimah, showing the relative boom times of an Australian outback town that was once a regular stop on the trek of many Australian or backpacking tourists.” – The Film Experience Nov 6, 2023 Full Review Mister Organ (2022) 95% EDIT “It feels taxing in some way to even watch the movie—like, great, now I need to go through life knowing he exists. What can I do to avoid him?” – The Film Experience Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Silver Dollar Road (2023) 82% EDIT “Peck allows a gentler curiosity to peek through the injustice and that’s something I suspect is a reflection of its subjects rather than any real mellowing of the director’s talents—of which the film is still nevertheless a strong testament to.” – The Film Experience Oct 30, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist: Believer (2023) 22% EDIT “For Green and McBride, an Exorcist movie in 2023 is little more than a run of the mill possessed teenage girl movie with CGI goo and few fresh ideas.” – The Film Experience Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Our Body (2023) 100% EDIT “It is intimate and across its runtime follows the delicate pattern of life itself. As one woman says, “I love cinema.” And despite its modesties, Our Body is a vivid portrayal of it and how the movies can capture life and death in its most profound ways.” – The Film Experience Aug 13, 2023 Full Review Black Barbie (2023) 96% EDIT “As you would probably expect, Black Barbie isn’t just about black Barbie dolls. It’s about representation, and about the biases at play in an industry that for so long never ever conceived of the idea of black children wanting a doll like Barbie. ” – The Film Experience Aug 12, 2023 Full Review Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour (1998) 100% EDIT “It bares all of the hallmarks of an independent work of documentary from the ‘90s, from its video aesthetics to its barely-an-hour-long runtime. But that’s partly why it is so entertaining.” – The Film Experience Aug 12, 2023 Full Review Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2023) 100% EDIT “...the film accentuates both the incredible intimacy and the mammoth scope of the show in equal measure. It is a joy to watch. And vibrantly queer, too.” – The Film Experience Jul 4, 2023 Full Review Fanny: The Right to Rock (2021) 100% EDIT “Luckily for Hart, the story of Fanny overlaps with a lot of other issues that give The Right to Rock a sturdier platform of relevance.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review John Farnham: Finding the Voice (2023) 92% EDIT “It's a great story, true. Albeit a familiar one. But Stockell deploys some truly perplexing and frustrating editing and sound mix choices that hamper it.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023) 82% EDIT “There’s a tunnel vision to the story being told here that, through some weird editing and scripting choices, abandons her musical skills for less interesting detours into her private life.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Victim/Suspect (2023) 79% EDIT “Schwartzman is never able to put any sort of authorial stamp on the material. Like many Netflix productions, cinematography is uninteresting and the editing rather pedestrian.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022) 91% EDIT “Buirsky shoots her talking head interviews (Cowboy actors Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt among them) often in close-up as if to play on the original movie’s confronting nature.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review The Taking (2021) 93% EDIT “...the temptation is to simply ogle and marvel at some of nature’s finest creations captured by the best of Hollywood.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) 99% EDIT “Still really uses its subject’s vast history of recorded entertainment and archival footage to create a sweeping testament and tribute to Fox.” – The Film Experience Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Museum of the Revolution (2021) 100% EDIT “Museum of the Revolution is a bit harder to take in. Even at just 90 minutes, even the most committed of devotees to this sort of documentary work may find its dispatch from the streets a bit too much like hard work.” – The Film Experience May 22, 2023 Full Review
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