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Stephen Romei

Film Critic

Australia

Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)

Publish Date: January 25, 2024
"A solid crime drama but lacks the tension and suspense needed to keep audiences on the edge of their seats (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
Bring Him to Me (2023)

Publish Date: November 6, 2023
"An impressive drama that prods the psychological side of the criminal underbelly. It takes risks with the characters themselves and with what happens to them. The director does not take the easy way out (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
Red White & Royal Blue (2023)

Publish Date: August 13, 2023
"An entertaining, humorous, high-spirited adaptation of Casey McQuiston's best-selling 2019 novel (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
Paradise (2023)

Publish Date: August 4, 2023
"This is a well-made, thought-provoking movie set in the near future. It's the sort of science fiction that feels closer to science than fiction (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Australian
Oppenheimer (2023)

Publish Date: July 18, 2023
"Christopher Nolan has done it again. He's taken a historical story we know a bit about and turned it into an edge-of-the-seat, heart-in-the-mouth drama (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Australian
John Farnham: Finding the Voice (2023)

Publish Date: May 17, 2023
"An inspiring story of someone who had to overcome the odds to be who he wanted and deserved to be (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
Judy Blume Forever (2023)

Publish Date: April 20, 2023
"That opening line to Judy Blume's 1975 young adult novel 'Forever' goes to the crux of why the American author has topped both the bestseller charts and banned books lists (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

Publish Date: April 14, 2023
"It is a powerful historical drama and Crowe is outstanding as a real life Vatican exorcist-in-chief (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
The Portable Door (2023)

Publish Date: March 26, 2023
"This movie is a spirited, fantastical entertainment for young and old (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

The Australian
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)

Publish Date: June 10, 2022
"There are lots of gently beautiful moments in 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom' (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Australian
Finding Your Feet (2017)

Publish Date: February 16, 2018
"Although it’s full of rib-tickling dialogue, it’s the drama that cuts deep (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Australian
Dance Academy (2017)

Publish Date: April 14, 2017
"[It] is better than 'La La Land' (...) 'Dance Academy' feels more real. It has something about it that is more dramatic, more emotional, more complex (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Australian
Leap! (2016)

Publish Date: January 20, 2017
"It’s exciting, beautiful to watch and ends in a manner that leaves hope for just about everyone (…) Rating: ***½ (out of 5)"

The Australian
Chasing Great (2016)

Publish Date: October 14, 2016
"Fascinating (...) Rugby fans will be interested in this. But the film offers much more than that (...) Funny, heartwarming, uplifting (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Australian

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