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Paul Byrnes

Film Critic

Australia

Australia

53 pro reviews

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Latest published

Nowhere Special (2020)
Publish Date: March 24, 2024
"Norton shows his depths here with a finely judged turn, bouncing between anger, frustration, affection and despair. It’s a strong film all around, poised and more delicately emotional than the subject might suggest (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Driving Madeleine (2022)
Publish Date: June 21, 2023
"Madeleine's story has many twists, going to a dark place. Renaud plays her as a survivor; someone who learned to endure. Her warmth is utterly irresistible (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Limbo (2023)
Publish Date: May 24, 2023
"A quiet but powerful meditation on how far we have not come in this country (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
The Innocent (2022)
Publish Date: April 12, 2023
"A delicious hybrid -a drama, because the emotions are played straight; a romance, because the characters are looking for love; and above all a comedy, because Garrel pushes it quietly towards logical mayhem (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Linoleum (2022)
Publish Date: March 29, 2023
"Nothing is what it seems in this wonderfully ambitious and weird film (...) [This] feature debut feels more like an over-extended short (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
The Portable Door (2023)
Publish Date: March 22, 2023
"Sam Neill and Christoph Waltz bring fine comic energy to the spectacular design, but the story bends itself in knots trying to be inventive (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Your Place or Mine (2023)
Publish Date: February 9, 2023
"Witherspoon and Kutcher achieve gender equality for the romcom -not an insignificant task- but it hardly matters when the film is so listless (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
True Spirit (2023)
Publish Date: February 1, 2023
"This is a family-friendly picture, wholesome and tailored for the American market -although I suspect that director Sarah Spillane also shaped it to inspire teenage girls, in particular (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Shotgun Wedding (2022)
Publish Date: January 25, 2023
"The comedy is patchy, gusting funny. The film is best when at its most ridiculous, worst when it turns serious (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
You Can Go Now (2022)
Publish Date: January 25, 2023
"A powerful piece of work, with all the anger, recrimination and hurt that we see in his art. Bell is a provocateur, a poet, a piss-taker, maybe even a prophet (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Transfusion (2023)
Publish Date: January 4, 2023
"If the script has more depth than a run-of-the-mill actioner, it is partly because of Worthington's intense performance and partly because Nable's direction is confident and careful (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Carnifex (2022)
Publish Date: December 12, 2022
"Don't let anyone say they don’t make movies like they used to. 'Carnifex' is a textbook 1970s-era monster mash-up (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Margrete: Queen of the North (2021)
Publish Date: November 22, 2022
"Dyrholm is magnificent as the queen, navigating with stern authority among the disreputable nobles. The director is Charlotte Sieling. She co-wrote the script, which comes with impeccable feminist undertones (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Poker Face (2022)
Publish Date: November 21, 2022
"Crowe's direction is efficient at best, intrusive at worst (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
The Velvet Queen (2021)
Publish Date: November 9, 2022
"Munier's breathtaking images are transcendently beautiful. That is all the eloquence the film needs (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
The Night of the 12th (2022)
Publish Date: October 13, 2022
"The grandeur of the film comes from the depth of emotion. These may be the hard-boiled characters, but they are still human (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Full Time (2021)
Publish Date: July 27, 2022
"Laure Calamy has an extraordinary ability to project warmth, as well as strength. Her character here is down but never out, no matter how hard life pushes her (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Maigret (2022)
Publish Date: May 25, 2022
"This is a more than minimal Maigret. If you are ready for Depardieu in quiet mode, it may suffice (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021)
Publish Date: April 22, 2022
"The powerful war drama that’s so tense, it’ll make you squirm (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald
The Amazing Maurice (2022)
Publish Date: January 9, 2022
"The result is funny, wacky, fast-paced and somewhat hollow. It's a tad shrill and exhausting (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

Sydney Morning Herald

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