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Karl Quinn

Karl Quinn's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Family McMullen (2025) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “What once seemed fresh and charming now feels rehearsed and rehashed. The Family McMullen has the air not of indie cinema but of a Hallmark movie.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 11, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “The great strength, and perhaps also the greatest weakness, of this documentary is the depth of talent director Colin Hanks has assembled to share memories of the late Canadian actor John Candy...” – The Age (Australia) Oct 15, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Cosy and comforting? Absolutely. Cutting edge? Not a bit. Just as the data ordered.” – The Age (Australia) Aug 26, 2025 Full Review A Nice Indian Boy (2024) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “A Nice Indian Boy may not break too many rules, but it does play the rom-com game with an uncommonly high level of compassion and commitment that’s to be applauded.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 10, 2025 Full Review The Wolves Always Come at Night (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Brady lived in Mongolia years ago, and her embrace of this form of hybrid storytelling is clearly designed to afford agency to its subjects...That’s all to be applauded. I just wish there was a little more connective tissue on those narrative bones.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 3, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “Abou Sangaré is magnificent as Souleymane...He is on screen for virtually every second, and he holds your attention without fail.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 26, 2025 Full Review The Unholy Trinity (2024) 42% 3/5 EDIT “But while there are some flashes of wry humour dotted throughout – can a movie with Jackson ever not have at least a little twinkle in its eye? – this is mostly a straight-shooting exercise in genre.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 24, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “[Danny Boyle’s] use of jump-cuts, of varied focal lengths and exposures, and above all his use of music and sound design (think Trainspotting, times 10) all combine to create and sustain a state of high anxiety in the audience.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 23, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Materialists is a romantic film for pragmatists, a pragmatic film for romantics. Opposites attract, and it’s a perfect match.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 16, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% 3/5 EDIT “ It doesn’t exactly set sail for uncharted territories, but it does make for a perfectly satisfying (dis)pleasure cruise. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Karate Kid: Legends (2025) 58% 3/5 EDIT “...Karate Kid: Legends offers little by way of innovation and plenty by way of giving the people what they want. It’s derivative, corny and, in its utterly predictable way, great fun.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “It’s thrilling, funny, absurd in the best way. It’s pure spectacle, and that’s the entire reason these movies exist.” – Sydney Morning Herald May 19, 2025 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% 4/5 EDIT “It meanders at times, but it soars too, lifted high on a belief love and family really do matter, no matter how scrappy and unconventional a form they may take.” – Sydney Morning Herald Feb 19, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% 4.5/5 EDIT “The technical stuff -- almost all of which plays out within the tight confines of the broadcast studio -- is fascinating. But the meat of September 5 lies elsewhere, in the big moral questions it poses.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Cunk on Life (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Love her or loathe her, Philomena Cunk might be the perfect creation for our age. Blissfully and wilfully ignorant, she careens down the misinformation superhighway, sideswiping science, expertise and pomposity with abandon.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Acknowledging your sources is all well and good, but ultimately, you need to step out of the shadows of your inspiration. Robert Eggers is a truly gifted filmmaker; if only he had taken us away from all this debt.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Nugget Is Dead? A Christmas Story (2024) 2.5/5 EDIT “We do do dysfunctional families well. We do know how to cringe at the suburbia from which most of us have sprung... Laughs, though? The stockings are a little light on there, I’m afraid.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 3, 2024 Full Review He Ain't Heavy (2024) 3.5/5 EDIT “For those who believe Australian cinema is too dark, too small, too focused on grim reality rather than the glittery stuff of the silver screen, He Ain’t Heavy will serve as proof. ” – The Age (Australia) Oct 30, 2024 Full Review A Family Affair (2024) 36% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s generic, predictable, mildly enjoyable and instantly forgettable. Whether or not her character is making a bad match with her hunky actor boyfriend, I reckon Kidman deserves a lot better than this insipidly formulaic pap.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 5, 2024 Full Review The Estate (2022) 32% 2.5/5 EDIT “ It’s a decent premise but, sadly, it amounts to less than the sum of its parts.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 2, 2023 Full Review The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari (2022) 83% 4/5 EDIT “The Volcano does a great job of capturing those two minutes of terror, and the lifetime of pain that many will have to endure as a result. ” – The Age (Australia) Dec 10, 2022 Full Review Ithaka (2021) 73% 4/5 EDIT “In its own small way, Lawrence’s film -- with its stirring soundtrack by Brian Eno, no less -- is an attempt to turn that light back where it belongs. Here’s hoping it’s not too late.” – The Age (Australia) Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It's a document of our times that soothes with laughter and comforts with the knowledge that no matter how much it felt otherwise, we really weren't alone.” – The Age (Australia) Jun 7, 2021 Full Review Pieces of a Woman (2020) 76% 2.5/5 EDIT “Awards talk aside, it's a bit of a mess. But it does do a decent job of capturing the impulse to blame when joy is supplanted by tragedy and loss.” – The Age (Australia) Mar 3, 2021 Full Review Friday on My Mind: The Story of The Easybeats (1970) EDIT “It makes you proud to be Australian - in all its multicultural glory.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 12, 2020 Full Review
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