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ABC News (Australia) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Jason Di Rosso, Keva York, Luke Goodsell, Marc Fennell, Stephen A. Russell.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Predator: Badlands (2025) Stephen A. Russell Delivering oddball comedy alongside Trachtenberg's frenetically staged action ... Badlands borrows from the Predator, Alien, Godzilla and Jurassic Park franchises, miraculously escaping feeling derivative.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Dream Scenario (2023) Keva York Cage gives a performance that is by turns subtle, funny, and excruciating, but his character is ultimately less than compelling.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025) Luke Goodsell Haters will burn with renewed fire, but if you’ve ever had a soft spot for U2, it may just make you fall in love with them all over again.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Inertia (2025) Bradley Gibson Flaws notwithstanding, Inertia has plentiful charm and energy to be enjoyed, while serving as a parable about the power of human emotion.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Luke Goodsell McQuarrie and Cruise seem to have forgotten the fact that nobody goes to a Mission: Impossible picture for the plot.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) Luke Goodsell One of the ugliest self-portraits in the history of pop star movies, alternately self-loathing and self-pitying, solipsistic and grimly exhilarating. If you’re a scholar of pop stardom, it’s also essential.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
The Penguin Lessons (2024) Luke Goodsell Coogan does nice work shading the moral ambiguities of his character, although the movie is ultimately resistant to exploring the thornier aspects of its political backdrop.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Small Things Like These (2024) Luke Goodsell As he did in Oppenheimer, Murphy suggests worlds of conflict beyond the word. In repose, his stillness says so much.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh Canada (2024) Luke Goodsell The film becomes a reckoning for a generation who set out to change the world with their art, their music, their movies — but for whom the end is fast approaching. What do they have to show for it?
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Disney's Snow White (2025) Luke Goodsell As ever, the new version makes a great trailer for the original.
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Flow (2024) Luke Goodsell It’s hard to remember the last time that Disney, DreamWorks or Pixar got anywhere near Flow’s sense of wonder or imagination.
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Luke Goodsell Its stylistic accomplishment is less in reanimating history than making it live and breathe in the present — to interrogate ideas about the gaze, and what we as an audience bring to the table.
Posted Mar 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Last Showgirl (2024) Luke Goodsell The Last Showgirl gets at something about Anderson to which we’ve never really been exposed — the actor, and the artist, behind the icon.
Posted Feb 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) Luke Goodsell Unlike so many fame-obsessed rock docs, there’s a dedicated focus on the music itself — as exclusively recounted by the people who made it.
Posted Feb 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Presence (2024) Luke Goodsell The movie is hardly diminished by its conventional narrative punch. Soderbergh and Koepp keep the movie tense and twisty right through to its disquieting final image.
Posted Feb 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Maria (2024) Luke Goodsell A soulful, sometimes spooky glance at a diva at the edge of oblivion, and a portrait as rich, melancholy and moving as its subject.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Companion (2025) Luke Goodsell Hancock might have leaned harder into his film’s underlying ideas, which are rich with potential. Still, the movie is entertaining, and more than a little mischievous.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Back in Action (2025) Luke Goodsell When the filmmaking is this generic, and the writing this uninspired, you do have to wonder how far we’re away from a movie like this being entirely, and indifferently, generated by AI.
Posted Jan 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Wolf Man (2025) Luke Goodsell Whannell strips away much of the familiar mythology, adding a fresh ripple to the tale with a tense, almost claustrophobic thriller that focuses on family — and the darkness lurking within
Posted Jan 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Luke Goodsell Jenkins might have been an inspired choice of director — and he’s approached the project with an admirable degree of sincerity — but even he can’t quite wrestle this film away from its creative redundancy.
Posted Dec 19, 2024  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) Luke Goodsell The War of the Rohirrim proves there’s a limit to the spell a franchise can cast without the spark of its creator’s imagination.
Posted Dec 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Rumours (2024) Luke Goodsell It all becomes a little repetitive, if not outright tiresome, at a certain point, once the filmmakers’ pursuit of the strange starts to outpace the flimsiness of their satire. Still, as you might expect from Maddin, there’s nothing else quite like it.
Posted Dec 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Goodrich (2024) Luke Goodsell Meyers-Shyer digs deeper than the material suggests, offering nuanced portraits of creative people who’ve spent their lives making (or curating) art at the expense of their emotional health.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Blitz (2024) Luke Goodsell There’s something quietly subversive about McQueen smuggling this story of the dispossessed into the stuffy old World War II drama.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
The Piano Lesson (2024) Luke Goodsell It feels like nothing short of an exorcism — and proof of the enduring power of Wilson’s work.
Posted Nov 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Here (2024) Luke Goodsell Here’s emotional effect is cumulative and, thanks to expert performances from the two leads, in many ways quite moving.
Posted Nov 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Smile 2 (2024) Luke Goodsell A striking 21st century pop fable, connecting its grinning curse to the malevolent effects of superstardom.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) Luke Goodsell While Super/Man is largely a conventional documentary portrait, there’s no doubt that it’s a moving one.
Posted Oct 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Luke Goodsell Folie à Deux might avoid populist kicks, but it also reveals the limit to Phillips’s subversion of our expectations.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
Megalopolis (2024) Luke Goodsell It's a bold, beautiful portrait of humanity in all of its paradox, and if it does turn out to be Coppola's swan song, then it's as vital a piece of filmmaking as his greatest work.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Jung Kook: I Am Still (2024) Luke Goodsell What emerges is a portrait of an artist in search of his identity, driven by a desire to satisfy his audience while yearning to break free as a solo performer.
Posted Sep 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Luke Goodsell In place of the playful, anything-goes abandon of the first movie, the sequel has a much more calculated, plot-heavy design. The gags are there, but they feel less organic.
Posted Sep 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Blink Twice (2024) Luke Goodsell Kravitz's stranger, more unruly instincts might have gotten lost in a familiar tale of revenge, but Blink Twice is evidence of a filmmaker feeling out some prickly, powerful terrain.
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
It Ends With Us (2024) Luke Goodsell Whatever its faults, there’s something to be said for the way in which it gets to the essence of its source material, delivering an emotional experience that manages to be both clear-eyed and thorny in its complexity.
Posted Aug 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Trap (2024) Luke Goodsell An inventive, improbable and sometimes very funny little thriller, with enough tonal swerves to keep its audience hooked.
Posted Aug 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Luke Goodsell As old-school throwbacks go, it makes for pretty good in-flight entertainment.
Posted Jul 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Twisters (2024) Luke Goodsell Sometimes all you need for a good time is a couple of hot movie stars and a strong gust of wind.
Posted Jul 15, 2024  Edit critic review
The Bikeriders (2023) Luke Goodsell There’s no seduction to Nichols' storytelling to draw us in, and no real sexiness; he doesn’t tease out the melodrama in the conflict, nor bring the inherent eroticism to the fore.
Posted Jul 09, 2024  Edit critic review
The Promised Land (2023) Luke Goodsell A film that builds toward a rousing and romantic conclusion, capping the kind of sweeping, old-fashioned movie we don't see enough of anymore.
Posted Jun 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Mothers' Instinct (2024) Luke Goodsell It has little sense of the disreputable, or the willingness — even with an admirably twisted finale — to let the material get sufficiently dark and unhinged.
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) Luke Goodsell An uneasy, if hardly unprecedented mix of brutal, unflinching violence and overripe sentimentality — a dynamic that has only become more extreme as this series settles deep into middle age.
Posted Jun 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Luke Goodsell What was once spare and brutal has become cluttered and over-extended — even if the soul is still there, rattling around somewhere in the engine.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Luke Goodsell Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has its moments, but its insistence on playing things down the middle feels like a betrayal of the series' bitter, satirical origins.
Posted May 10, 2024  Edit critic review
La Chimera (2023) Luke Goodsell It’s a movie that beguiles as it haunts, touched by both magic and madness.
Posted Apr 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Scoop (2024) Luke Goodsell Does a nice job of whipping things along at a buzzy, compelling clip — even if it occasionally betrays an air of self-congratulation typical of the genre.
Posted Apr 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Luke Goodsell For a movie that features Kong and Godzilla going up against a super-ape riding a radioactive dinosaur, it’s surprisingly dull — devoid of much in the way of wonder, soul, or the genuinely strange.
Posted Apr 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Priscilla (2023) Luke Goodsell It’s an exquisitely calibrated piece of filmmaking, at once dreamy, melancholy and threaded with quiet power.
Posted Apr 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Luke Goodsell Any movie teeming with fantastical ocean creatures, neon-streaked underwater metropolises and Nicole Kidman riding a cybernetic shark should be a blast of escapism, but the Lost Kingdom never transcends the tedium of its weightless green screen action.
Posted Apr 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Migration (2023) Luke Goodsell Illumination’s latest feature is bright and bouncy and largely pitched to audiences who’ve only recently learned to waddle, with plenty of sight gags that will quack up undemanding audiences.
Posted Apr 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Wish (2023) Luke Goodsell A grab bag of storytelling tropes, generic characters and musical styles from the well-thumbed Disney playbook.
Posted Apr 10, 2024  Edit critic review
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