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Baz Luhrmann's movie Australia is a winner, say first reviews | NEWS.com.au Entertainment
HE SET himself an enormous challenge, but Baz Luhrmann has pulled off an incredible film in Australia . Shoehorning two complete films into one package, Australia sees Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley, a privileged aristocrat drawn to the outback to sell her late husband's failing cattle ...
 Review: Australia, the movie
Review: Australia, the movie
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk — Nicole Kidman and Brandon Walters in Australia, the movie... (more) Review: Australia, the movie
Baz Luhrmann's Australia is good, but not a masterpiece
theaustralian.news.com.au — BAZ Luhrmann's eagerly awaited Australia is certainly the epic that we all expected. It's very ambitious, it... has enormous sweep and scope as it tells a story that takes place in the Northern Territory between 1939 and 1941. VIDEO: Australia trailer | ... (more) Baz Luhrmann's Australia is good, but not a masterpiece
Fox says it hasn't tampered with 'Australia'
Fox says it hasn't tampered with 'Australia'
latimesblogs.latimes.com — The blogosphere has been full of breathless tales that Baz Luhrmann has been forced to dump the... unhappy ending he filmed for "Australia," his $130-million adventure epic (due out later this month) that stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Australia's... (more) Fox says it hasn't tampered with 'Australia'
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Well, at Least One Aussie Likes 'Australia'
RopeofSilicon.comNews.com.ua has what they are claiming to be the first review of Australia even though I would say it hardly counts as a review, let alone an actual article. Claire Sutherland writes: It’s a movie with a message, but Luhrmann provides the audience with no shortage of thrills, from a cliff hanger cattle stampede to the bombing of Darwin. Kidman and Jackman are perfect together, Jackman’s broad speaking drover a perfect foil to Kidman’s snooty English rose. [...] Australia features some of the most beautiful photography ever seen in an Australian film, from the Bungle ...

Australia Reviews Begin to Trickle in
Awards Daily — ... Meanwhile, this review is the flipside, suggesting a winner waiting to spring, “HE SET himself an enormous challenge, but Baz Luhrmann has pulled off an incredible film in Australia.” ...

Australia, round 1.
GreenCine Daily — ... provides the audience with no shortage of thrills, from a cliff hanger cattle stampede to the bombing of Darwin," writes Claire Sutherland for the Herald Sun (via ...

Early Buzz: 'Australia' and 'Revolutionary Road' Are Big Winners
Cinematical — ... is beginning to leak out. First up, Australia's Herald Son has published one of the first reviews of Baz Lurhman's Australia -- starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman -- saying it "features some of the most beautiful photography ever seen in an Australian film, from the Bungle Bungles in the Kimberley to the Northern Territory in the midst of the wet season," and that the film "has international blockbuster written all over it." Over at the ...

More Thumbs Up 'Australia' Reviews
:: The Playlist :: — ... . gives it four stars. And the Herald Sun down under says it's "a winner" a film "with a message, but... no shortage of thrills." ...

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filmofilia.com 11/20/2008 — Some early reviews have criticised the length of the “ Australia. ” At the media conference, Baz Luhrmann said he didn’t expect everyone to like it but was hoping it would become a classic. “It is between the film and the audience,” he said of the reviews at ...
Movie Review: Australia (2008)RopeofSilicon.com
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in Australia Photo: 20th Century Fox Australia is a film that is a drastic miscalculation on the part of director/co-writer Baz Luhrmann. This much stalled project once starred Russell Crowe, then Heath Ledger and ultimately Hugh Jackman and has taken ...
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Michael Bodey of The Australian has filed a review of Baz Luhrmanns' "Australia" for The Australian. He says the World War II romantic epic is "intermittently brillant, largely good but ultim... (more)
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Australian site Watoday has the first review of highly awaited Baz Luhrmann ’s epic adventure “ Australia ” which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman . “…The anxiously anticipated Australia is not a bad film. But it’s far from a great one, and ...
Reviews Of ‘Australia’ From Down Under Range From Mostly Positive To MixedFataculture
The Aussies have naturally seen Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia” before the rest of the world and it seems, much like “Revolutionary Road,” that the opinions on the film are semi-divided (keep in mind it is two reviews, albeit from major papers). However, no one seems to ...
Reviews On 'Australia' From Down Under Range From Mostly Positive To Mixed:: The Playlist ::
The Aussies have naturally seen Baz Luhrmann 's " Australia " before the rest of the world and it seems, much like " Revolutionary Road ," that the opinions on the film are semi-divided (keep in mind it it two reviews , albeit from major papers). However, no one seems to be taking it to ...