salon.com - 11/26/2008
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Nov. 26, 2008 | Calling a Baz Luhrmann movie a crazy mess isn't necessarily a damning statement. But it isn't an automatic compliment, either, and "Australia" is the type of crazy Luhrmann mess that needs to be approached with caution and a degree of patience. "Australia" is an ambitious ...
rottentomatoes.com - 11/26/2008
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Synopsis: Set in northern Australia before World War
II, an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a sprawling...
ranch reluctantly pacts with a cattle driver (Jackman) in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive... Set ...
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Australia Movie Reviews, Pictures
reelzchannel.com - 11/24/2008
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An English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) and a cattleman
(Hugh Jackman) drive a herd across the Australian Outback...
to save her ranch from a hostile takeover. Directed by: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Nicole Kidman , Hugh Jackman | Full Cast & Crew Year: 2008 ...
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Australia (2008) Movie Trailer, Review, Clips, Movie ...
variety.com - 11/29/2008
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'Benjamin Button,' 'Australia' take important risks They are
anomalies. Jumbo-sized anomalies. At a moment when belt-tightening is...
the order of the day, "Australia" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" reflect grandiose creative appetites and ...
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Luhrmann, Fincher dream big - Entertainment News, Peter ...
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Cattle Drive on Drugs
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Cattle Drive on Drugs A commanding majority of Rotten Tomatoes critics have today reminded themselves that Baz Luhrman , the director of Australia , is more or less certifiable (in a creative, go-for-broke sense of the term) as well as confronted the fact that Australia itself is a work of overwhelming psychedelic cinematic kitsch . Many of them clearly emerged from their Australia screenings "drained and weakened," as Salon 's Stephanie Zacharek puts it , "as if suffering from a gradual poisoning at the hands of a mad scientist." Or, as ...
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia: Five Reasons The Critics Are Wrong
SpoutBlog —
... to look like a documentary that was shot on location. Besides, the CGI attack on Darwin, which many people say looks fake, looked pretty darn realistic to me. It looked better than Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, and that wasn’t so shabby either. Maybe everyone should just go back to using miniatures so people will stop talking about CGI.
Nicole Kidman Can’t Act
“Why won’t Nicole Kidman’s face move?” Stephanie Zacharek - Salon
“Think Katharine Hepburn in The African ...
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