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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Newcastle Hollywood Reporter	06/30/08	Weak	"Sun-drenched and hormonally charged... boasts an almost fetishistic amount of teenage skin. But dramatically it's a wipe out. Its musty dysfunctional-family storyline stands in stark contrast to the breezy fun of the visuals..."
2.	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation Hollywood Reporter	08/14/08	Outstanding	"A rollicking romp through the vaults of Aussie genre films.... There's a wistful those were the days' mood, but Hartley also makes room for some clear-eyed criticism..."
3.	Tenderness Hollywood Reporter	04/30/09	Poor	"...cheerless... A bunch of murky motives, dozy pacing and two unlikable central characters forced into painful plot contrivances make this low-budget indie increasingly indigestible."
4.	Last Ride (2012) Hollywood Reporter	06/19/09	Very Good	"...persistently terrific Hugo Weaving lights a fuse under 'Last Ride,' a spare and wrenching road movie delving into the complexities of a fraught father-son relationship."
5.	Bran Nue Dae Hollywood Reporter	01/21/10	Good (Not Great)	"As a celebration of cultural identity, the Aboriginal musical 'Bran Nue Dae' has so much feel-good fizz that you can almost overlook its rickety construction. But not quite."
6.	Tomorrow, When the War Began Hollywood Reporter	10/14/10	Excellent	"...terrifically engaging... about a band of teens forged into guerilla warriors after a military invasion of Australia... a universal coming-of-age story, with satisfying dollops of romance, drama and easy humor... a solid entertainment..."
7.	Skyline Hollywood Reporter	11/11/10	Poor	"...a spasmodic and incoherent shambles... Burdened by unspeakably bad Syfy channel dialogue and dreadful acting, it culminates in a risible finish..."
8.	Griff the Invisible Hollywood Reporter	02/16/11	Good (Not Great)	"...the piece is as mild as its hero, although first-timer writer/director Leon Ford displays an amiably idiosyncratic sensibility that should be encouraged."
9.	Rio (2011) Hollywood Reporter	04/07/11	Good	"...will have kids and their chaperones shaking a tail feather to its pulsating Latin beats.... ticks similar family-friendly boxes without reinventing the animation wheel."
10.	Thor Hollywood Reporter	04/17/11	Good	"...skitters just this side of kitsch... a noisy, universe-rattling spectacle full of sound and fury with a suitably epic design and solid digital effects..."
11.	Fast Five Hollywood Reporter	04/19/11	Very Good	"...gleefully silly and sturdy enough... Big crashes, lithe women and roiling testosterone... at least two set pieces hit new heights of metal-crunching mayhem."
12.	The Snowtown Murders Hollywood Reporter	05/10/11	Fair	"A well-made but hard-to-watch portrait of Australia's worst serial killer.... Only the truly ghoulish will find any pleasure..."
13.	The Eye of the Storm Hollywood Reporter	07/23/11	Very Good	"...explores the emotional wreckage of a dysfunctional family with caustic wit.... embraces the grandeur of the Australian literary classic upon which it's based."
14.	The Hunter (2012) Hollywood Reporter	09/09/11	Very Good	"...taps into questions of solitude and loneliness, obsession and repression of emotion... atmospheric and full of mystery, gives up its secrets reluctantly."
15.	Johnny English Reborn Hollywood Reporter	09/18/11	Fair	"...the general vibe is one of laziness. The action is by-the-numbers and the ungainly machinations of the plot are familiar from countless spy spoofs..."
16.	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Hollywood Reporter	01/17/12	Moderate	"...a cornball ride through colorful, often glaringly phony sets popping with miniature elephants, gold-spewing volcanoes and a monster-truck-sized lizard."
17.	Battleship (2012) Hollywood Reporter	04/11/12	Weak	"...the impressive visual effects and director Peter Berg's epic set pieces fight against an armada of cinematic clichés and some truly awful dialogue."
18.	Antiviral Hollywood Reporter	05/19/12	Good (Not Great)	"...a petri dish of high-concept perversity and cultural commentary teeming with lo-fi ickiness... gives a sardonic, David Cronenbergian twist to a very au courant subject..."
19.	The Sapphires Hollywood Reporter	05/20/12	Excellent	"...a sparkling charmer following the '60s pop singing group... Wayne Blair has crafted an exuberant celebration of Aboriginality that fizzes with humor and heart..."
20.	Holy Motors Hollywood Reporter	05/22/12	Excellent	"Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking... a deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking that appraises life and death and everything in between, reflected in a funhouse mirror."

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