4 out of 10 Movie ReviewsA weak plot, with weak acting with a weak excuse as to why it should be so long! Useless!
Black Sheep Reviews"Australia" is a solid effort, sturdy on its feet but a slow and steady stride instead of the adventure it so clearly wants ...
Week in RewindTo say the least, this is one of the year’s most aggressively mounted films. Too bad it doesn't all come together.
Get the Big Picture'Australia' could be worse. It could have bad performances or it could not look as spectacular as it does.
CanMagBaz Lurman is usually good at playing with archetypes. Alas, he has finally found a genre where archetypes just aren't enough.
Chicago Sun-TimesThis is the sort of film described as a "sweeping romantic melodrama," a broad family entertainment that would never have be...
Film School RejectsThere were parts of this film that were breathtakingly awesome and visually stunning. The landscape of the Australian outbac...
JobloAUSTRALIA is a film that’s simply way too earnest for our cynical age. It’s a throwback to a style of moviemaking that simpl...
CinematicalSo at the 90-minute mark, Australia more or less stops, transforms itself into a giant-sized World War II drama, complete wi...
San Francisco Chronicle"Australia" shows all the signs of having been a labor of love for director Baz Luhrmann. One problem: It's his love, and th...
Entertainment WeeklyWhen the subject of Australia is as ambitious as the character of an entire country, and the filmmaker is as effusive...
ReelViewsAustralia is big and bold and brash - although one wouldn't expect less from director Baz Luhrmann, whose vocabulary doesn't...
The New York TimesBaz Luhrmann’s continent-size epic, “Australia,” isn’t the greatest story ever — it’s several dozen of the greatest stories ...
FilmcriticIt takes a half hour before you're able to put a finger on the tone and tactic of Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
E! OnlineA 12-part miniseries stuffed into a 2½ hour movie, this soap opera tells the story of Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman, pale...
New York Daily NewsWe've seen hypocrisy in plenty of movies, but you'd probably have to go back to 1941 to find an example as blatant as this.
Urban CinefileIt's not the size that matters most in Baz Luhrmann's Australia, it's the many details, the intimate, personal moments, the ...
Dark HorizonsA flawed, formulaic family crowd pleaser that barely succeeds as campy anachronistic period fluff. Will go down as a self-in...
Cinema BlendIt sounds like a mess because it is one. A gorgeous, earnest, reckless, and brazenly captivating mess.
Emanuel LevyBy far Luhrmann's weakest film, Australia is a banal, anachronistic WWII melodrama that wears its liberal politics on its sl...
New York MagazineJackman has musical-theater chops and knows how to sell material this ham-handed; Kidman isn’t quite as deft.
Box Office MagazineUndeniably ambitious, unabashedly melodramatic, unyieldingly Baz in every conceivable way, this costly, much-troubled, forev...
Variety"Australia" provides a luxurious bumpy ride; like a Rolls-Royce on a rocky country road, it's full of bounces and lurches, ...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham
Release: November 26, 2008
Writer: Baz Luhrmann
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham
Release: November 26, 2008
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