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Shane Danielsen

Shane Danielsen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Brothers' Nest (2018) 92% EDIT “What it is, refreshingly, is smart - not only in terms of its plotting, the steady drip-feed of information and clarification, but also in the intelligence it extends to its characters.” – The Monthly (Australia) Jul 9, 2018 Full Review The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) 68% 2/5 EDIT “Emphatically urging you to laugh, it inspired -- in this reviewer, at least -- barely so much as a chuckle.” – sbs.com.au May 4, 2015 Full Review Reaching for the Moon (2013) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “As the essentially solitary poet, [Otto is] excellent, conveying at once a rich and complex inner life -- its details elusive perhaps even to Bishop herself -- and also a profound uneasiness with the world outside.” – sbs.com.au Mar 31, 2015 Full Review Foxcatcher (2014) 88% 4/5 EDIT “It's a film of deceptive power; its effect is gradual and incremental.” – sbs.com.au Jan 29, 2015 Full Review The Interview (2014) 51% 1/5 EDIT “A comedy fatally short on laughs.” – sbs.com.au Jan 16, 2015 Full Review Beloved Sisters (2014) 71% 3/5 EDIT “There's nothing airless or genteel about it; on the contrary, it fairly seethes with life and passion, like the three sides of the doomed love triangle it describes.” – sbs.com.au Jan 7, 2015 Full Review We Are the Best! (2013) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The music here is really just a Macguffin, a way into Moodyson's real subject: the complex and often unequal dynamics of adolescent friendships.” – sbs.com.au Jan 4, 2015 Full Review Starred Up (2013) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Jack O'Connell is electrifying.” – sbs.com.au Jan 2, 2015 Full Review The Congress (2013) 71% 2/5 EDIT “It's an intensely frustrating film, one that veers between excellent and silly in the space of seconds.” – sbs.com.au Dec 4, 2014 Full Review Nightcrawler (2014) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Persuasive and smartly-scripted, Nightcrawler arrives at an interesting moment for Hollywood cinema.” – sbs.com.au Nov 24, 2014 Full Review In Order of Disappearance (2014) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Billed as a black comedy, Moland is aiming here for the same delicate balance between laughter and violence as the Coen Brothers' Fargo. Trouble is, unlike that film, it's not especially funny.” – sbs.com.au Sep 12, 2014 Full Review Predestination (2014) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's a thoughtful, ambitious adaptation, whose pieces finally lock into place with a satisfying, if not entirely unexpected click.” – sbs.com.au Aug 1, 2014 Full Review Snowpiercer (2013) 94% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's very much part of a cinematic tradition: heir to the hermetically enclosed, purpose-built steampunk dystopias devised by Terry Gilliam and Guillermo del Toro and Caro & Jeunet.” – sbs.com.au Aug 1, 2014 Full Review Gloria (2013) 100% 4/5 EDIT “What could in less capable hands so easily have been mishandled, lapsing either into patronising comedy or sappy sentimentality, is accorded generous and sympathetic treatment here.” – sbs.com.au Feb 28, 2014 Full Review The Wind Rises (2013) 88% 2/5 EDIT “There are more boring movies than this one. There aren't many more disingenuous.” – sbs.com.au Feb 28, 2014 Full Review The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Martin Scorsese's finest in more than a decade.” – sbs.com.au Feb 21, 2014 Full Review The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It's his grandest plaything to date, his most splendid and glittering toy -- yet for all the ornamentation on display, it's also his most human and humane.” – sbs.com.au Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Tom at the Farm (2013) 77% EDIT “The film, initially intriguing, succumbs, like its maker, to an over-inflated sense of its own importance.” – IndieWire Sep 13, 2013 Full Review Django Unchained (2012) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Impolitic though it might be to suggest it, there's something extremely satisfying about the violence here-though, for my money, it resides less in seeing these racist thugs get their comeuppance, than in the director's staging of it.” – sbs.com.au Jan 24, 2013 Full Review Trouble With the Curve (2012) 51% 1.5/5 EDIT “Watching this film (agonisingly protracted at almost two hours) is a little like spending time with an curmudgeonly uncle you hate visiting.” – sbs.com.au Dec 7, 2012 Full Review Savages (2012) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Stone does his best with the material-aided by no less than three credited editors-but can't compensate for the void at the film's centre. An absence less of morality, than of simple chemistry.” – sbs.com.au Oct 18, 2012 Full Review Lore (2012) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Like Lore herself-fierce, defiantly unsocialised-it is a rebuke to notions of middle-class propriety, as well as a formidable work in its own right, by one of the best and most distinctive filmmakers this country has ever produced.” – sbs.com.au Sep 20, 2012 Full Review
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