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Tom Augustine

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Gloriavale: New Zealand's Secret Cult (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It's a fast-moving but well-paced work, thrumming with urgency and blessed with remarkable access.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 3, 2022 Full Review Dark Waters (2019) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Dark Waters is the kind of bleak, urgent film-making that reflects the times we're in without flinching. A pessimist Erin Brockovich for the modern era.” – New Zealand Herald Mar 6, 2020 Full Review Downhill (2020) 36% 3/5 EDIT “It is undeniable, though, that this film is far more ambitious, well-acted and well-shot than many of its American comedic counterparts.” – New Zealand Herald Mar 6, 2020 Full Review The Current War: Director's Cut (2019) 61% 3/5 EDIT “Rejon does his best to liven up the material, employing all manner of stylistic flourishes - some delightful, some distracting, but can't overcome a script trying to do too much at once and not achieving much of any of it.” – New Zealand Herald Mar 3, 2020 Full Review The Invisible Man (2020) 92% 4/5 EDIT “That The Invisible Man manages to truly be about something meaningful to modern society proves the necessity of retelling this legendary story, despite the film makers occasionally overindulging in the process.” – New Zealand Herald Mar 3, 2020 Full Review Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) 79% 4.5/5 EDIT “What follows is a gleefully ruthless, visually bombastic treat, utilizing Robbie's chameleonic talents alongside a pleasingly game cast to create something really quite spectacular.” – New Zealand Herald Feb 18, 2020 Full Review EMMA. (2020) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “While the film is hardly challenging in this respect... when watching Emma is such a delectably enjoyable treat it's difficult to complain.” – New Zealand Herald Feb 18, 2020 Full Review The Specials (2019) 82% 4/5 EDIT “It's an imperfect film... but when a film means as well as this one does, it's difficult not to get swept away in the essential kindness it radiates.” – New Zealand Herald Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Frida. Viva la Vida (2019) 3/5 EDIT “Viva La Vida's effusiveness proves effective in recounting the life of Kahlo but rarely digs beyond that.” – New Zealand Herald Feb 3, 2020 Full Review A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) 95% 4.5/5 EDIT “A well-wrought and deeply moving film.” – New Zealand Herald Jan 27, 2020 Full Review Dolittle (2020) 15% 2/5 EDIT “Dolittle is a quirky, haphazard film - clearly the victim of ruthless editing and reshooting - and lacking in clear tone.” – New Zealand Herald Jan 21, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “Thematically, 1917 is disappointingly shallow, but technically, it is undeniably impressive.” – New Zealand Herald Jan 13, 2020 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% 5/5 EDIT “But it's De Niro who lands the knockout punches here... De Niro's Sheeran is a shell of a man, whose empty gaze and remorseless duty-killings untether him from his very soul. It's a pitch perfect performance.” – New Zealand Herald Dec 12, 2019 Full Review Marriage Story (2019) 95% 4.5/5 EDIT “Marriage Story is not an easy watch; it is frequently squirm-inducing with Baumbach, for the most part, refusing to take sides... but that's what makes it one of the most satisfying dramas of the year.” – New Zealand Herald Dec 9, 2019 Full Review Charlie's Angels (2019) 52% 2/5 EDIT “Where the original TV series explored the furious politics of women's liberation, this film is blandly box-ticking in its approach to feminism.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 18, 2019 Full Review The Report (2019) 83% 4/5 EDIT “It's a film that wears its didacticism proudly - but in the face of such unforgivable acts, The Report's idealism is extremely easy to side with.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 18, 2019 Full Review Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 97% 5/5 EDIT “It's a quiet and deceptively slow film, at times featuring so little sound that one can almost hear the characters' hearts fluttering. The pay-off, in a final 20 minutes of simply exquisite, cathartic cinema, is one for the history books.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 18, 2019 Full Review Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) 68% 2.5/5 EDIT “The main issue with Double Tap is that it attempts to lean on jokes and stylistic tics that haven't felt fresh in almost a decade - trying to resurrect the lightning-in-a-bottle success of the first unfortunately only leads to a just-okay second round.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Animals (2019) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Director [Sophie] Hyde crafts Animals into a mostly joyous ode to female friendship, rolling along on a sparkling, witty script that buzzes with energy and feeling.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Hustlers (2019) 88% 4.5/5 EDIT “Hustlers is a hoot with just enough of a sour kick to cement it as one of the best of the year.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Joker (2019) 68% 2/5 EDIT “So intently focused as he is on crafting an edgy and grown-up vision of the Batman world, Phillips sacrifices consistent character development, good scripting and editing.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Good Boys (2019) 81% 3.5/5 EDIT “I found Good Boys to be an amiably cheeky, enjoyable little confection.” – New Zealand Herald Sep 23, 2019 Full Review Rambo: Last Blood (2019) 26% 3.5/5 EDIT “I found it to be a surprisingly watchable, even engrossing dramatic film in its early stretches, earning its cathartic grand guignol of vengeful bloodletting by film's end and then some.” – New Zealand Herald Sep 23, 2019 Full Review Ad Astra (2019) 83% 5/5 EDIT “Part classical space adventure, part Apocalypse Now-esque freefall into the heart of darkness, part solemn meditation on the loneliness and interiority of space, the film is directed with typical invention and muscularity by James Gray.” – New Zealand Herald Sep 23, 2019 Full Review High Life (2018) 83% EDIT “Nevertheless a fascinating, worthy effort from one of our most revered auteurs, High Life is a space oddity worth seeing in spite of its more alienating elements.” – New Zealand Herald Sep 16, 2019 Full Review
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