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Lake Mungo 2008
It's bizarre that this deeply affecting study of grief, one of the best horror films of the last twenty years, didn't make the cut for 'The 15 greatest Australian horror films' - in an article recently published in the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/30/the-15-greatest-australian-horror-films-sorted
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Silver Linings Playbook 2012
An absurdly over-praised, trite and manipulative love story featuring a manic depressive (Bradley Cooper) and a young grieving widow (Jennifer Lawrence). There are some cute scenes involving dancing.
Like Paul Haggis's Crash before it, this is one of those films which, in years to come, will be cited as an embarrassing, over-hyped anomaly on the Oscar roll of honour. Jennifer Lawrence did not deserve her Best Actress gong, and the nominations for her, Cooper, Robert de Niro and Jacki Weaver…
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Looper 2012
Superior, low-key, grown-up science fiction that prioritises ideas and emotion over futuristic set-dressing. Time travel plot is spoiler-bait. Good performances by Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and the ever-wonderful Jeff Daniels. Writer/director Rian Johnson borrows from other sci-fi movies, but makes their ideas and images his own.