Australia

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$ 211 Million
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Positive Reviews 104
Negative reviews 29
Average Rating 3.3/5
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2.0
Dorothy sings of a land over the rainbow.And Luhrmann pulls levers to whip up tornados of complications, not so much a wizard as an overmatched man be .. EW
3.8
Still, what a gorgeous film, what strong performances, what exhilarating images and yes, what sweeping romantic melodrama. Rogerebert
3.0
So, as choppy and manipulative as the two and a half hour tale can get, the Man Behind the Curtains gift for theatricality makes Australia hard to res .. Common Sense Media
4.5
The film marks Sam Raimis return to both directing and directing a superhero movie, and Benedict Cumberbatchs 6th cinematic outing as Doctor Stephen S .. We Got This Covered
2.5
The problem goes back to control: Luhrmann wants it all comedy and tragedy, bombast and wet eyed sentimentality. Austin Chronicle
2.5
Its a fine romp, epic in both ambition and visuals if not narrative and if director Baz Luhrmann had stopped at the end of the love storys trajectory, .. Time Out
1.0
Viewers are constantly dislocated by a tornado of bling that ultimately does neither the story nor the characters and certainly not the actors justice .. The Guardian
2.5
An unwieldy stab at an old fashioned movie epic, Baz Luhrmanns Australia is corny, implausible, well intentioned and even somewhat enjoyable in its ow ..
2.0
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman effortlessly don the mantles of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable here; the screen is crammed with ravishing images. Screen Daily
4.5
The loose, unshaven Drover drives the tutting, overdressed Lady Sarah two days inland to Faraway Downs, a rundown wreck of a property, picturesquely p .. Screen Daily
4.0
By turns cheeky and heartrending, the limpid eyed newcomer knits the disparate threads of this sweeping epic together, single handedly lending this sh .. The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
The problem goes back to control: Luhrmann wants it all comedy and tragedy, bombast and wet eyed sentimentality.
4.0
Watching Luhrmann swinging for the fences and missing is still a hell of a lot more entertaining than watching most other contemporary filmmakers hitt .. E Film Critic
1.3
By unnecessarily extending the film (and shortening what should have formed its crux), Australia manages the almost unfeasible feat of becoming a less .. E Film Critic
5.0
Luhrmanns imagination too, demented and over reaching though it might be, is a glorious and vagrant thing to behold.His passion and romanticism, preci .. Telegraph
4.5
Now, increasingly, hes a reporter an admirably fearless one at that. Telegraph
1.3
Its not uncommon for beautiful actresses to inspire hushed awe in audiences, but with actors, its rare. San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
As if what went before, with its swooning romance, fistfights and luscious landscapes wasnt epic enough.
4.0
It sounds like a mess because it is one.A gorgeous, earnest, reckless, and brazenly captivating mess, nearly three hours of pure entertainment, but a .. Cinema Blend
2.0
Though Luhrmann starts with plenty of potential, he squanders it almost immediately. Ny Daily News
3.8
AUSTRALIA is a film thats simply way too earnest for our cynical age. JoBlo
2.5
Long in the making and almost as long in the watching Baz Luhrmanns Australia is epic piffle. Philly
4.0
Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge) directs this old fashioned adventure story that is filled with m .. Spirituality And Practice
2.0
Not just long and extravagant but woozy and ultimately rather silly...Luhrmann might have been aiming, Selznick like, for a new Gone With the Wind, bu .. One Guys Opinion
3.1
We should want to leap to our feet and cheer at this moment.Instead, its hard to generate enough enthusiasm to do more than shrug. ReelViews
3.1
Its too bad that Luhrmann had to waste the all encompassing title Australia on such a mixed mess; imagine what Peter Weir or someone else more talente .. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.0
Australia is a big sprawling movie that has its moments, but its crazy patchwork of incoherent style leaves the film emotionally unengaging.
2.5
Australia tries to be a sprawling, romantic epic. Instead, its a melodramatic exercise in tedium. Usa Today
3.0
Its long, but it is worth it because it is as entertaining as it is lengthy. Lariat
3.0
A lively, rollicking, overlong, overstuffed movie that tries my patience as much as it entertains me. Eric Ds Nider
3.0
For Luhrmann, too much is never enough.Still, in its way, Australia delivers the kitschy goods. News Review
3.0
Its manager, Neil Fletcher (DAVID WENHAM), claims aboriginal magic man, King George (DAVID GULPILIL), is the murder suspect. Screen It
2.0
It wants to dazzle us with its grandeur and intoxicate us with its old fashioned sense of romance to steamroller us into submission. Independent
4.0
Its a rather askance parallel, even insistent echoes of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, but it draws out a surprisingly emotional resonance. Shadows On The Wall
3.5
The latest installment in Soul Jazz Records Boombox series, tracing the evolution of recorded rap in the late 70s and early 80s, provides us with the .. Pop Matters
3.0
The latest installment in Soul Jazz Records Boombox series, tracing the evolution of recorded rap in the late 70s and early 80s, provides us with the .. Pop Matters
3.0
In addition, the frequent references to The Wizard of Oz dont really work.Despite its flaws, Australia remains an exciting, romantic and ultimately mo .. View London
2.5
Halfway through, Australia veers sharply into Serious Issue mode. News Day
2.0
Wrong.This almost three hour epic keeps shooting for the stars but usually crash lands with a thud. Cs Monitor
3.0
The story itself may pose a problem for some viewers averse to comic book mystical deifications of Outback Aboriginal culture, or others who just migh .. Film Journal International ..
2.5
Still, the movie is well shot and handsome looking, and it has a good cast. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.0
If Luhrmann takes too long to tell the tale, it is at least a tale worth telling, shining a light on racism and mistreatment, folding it neatly into a .. Az Central
3.1
Australia strains to do it all, and finally all you can see is the strain. Boston
3.5
Its also much too long at almost three hours, deliriously camp and shamelessly overdone an outback adventure seen through the eyes of a filmmaker stee .. Smh
4.5
The Lowdown: A deliberately unrealistic, larger than life old school epic thats constantly engaging, beautiful to look at and more emotionally engagin .. Mountain X
3.8
Jackman is enormously appealing as a jovial hunk with a deep streak of heroism. Star Tribune
4.5
Its all delicious corny and pretty darn honest and wonderful at the same time.
3.1
At once sprawling and intimate, melodramatic and comic, magnificent and utterly bonkers, it bears entertaining witness to Luhrmanns love of old movies .. Toronto Star
2.0
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1.0
All this Australia offers is a cringe, but not a very cultural one. Guardian
3.5
Baz Luhrmanns sprawling epic boasts gorgeous cinematography, a passionate romance, more than a few thrilling sequences plus the magnificent Hugh Jackm .. Reel Talk Reviews
3.5
This throwback to a noble cinematic tradition has no shortage of flaws. Reel Talk Reviews
5.0
Its like Cinema Paradiso, in that it celebrates the magic of cinema. Daily Mail
2.0
Its a mystery to me how Baz Luhrmann continues to be regarded as a director worth following. Slate
3.0
Hard hitting social commentary is not forte and while he strives for analogy and pertinence, all is lost in a dust cloud of galloping horses and magic .. Flim List
3.5
The film looks magnificent but is far too long.The star power is dazzling but I didnt believe the central characters or their relationship.
5.0
What you do get... is a firm commitment to epic, triple espresso shot extreme romance (the kind spelled XTREEEM!) and the kind of tear jerking that in .. Movies
5.0
The movie is all bitter partings and joyous reunions and nasty Japanese dive bombers who fly in and mess up everything. New Yorker
4.0
For one thing, it is animated by a sort of irresistible exuberance. Time
2.5
Never quite locks together into the sweeping cinematic journey Luhrmann clearly set out to create. Mr Brown Movies
2.5
As it is, the film is a technical triumph in search of a heart that feels real. The Movie Boy
3.5
Australia works well enough to recommend, but this will likely be the least worshiped movie in Luhrmanns filmography. Bullz-Eye
4.0
Its heart and soul live in conjuring up memories of the kind of epic movie they just dont make anymore. Hollywood
2.0
Australia offers plenty of fun, and parades more spectacle, sweeping camera movement and gushy sentimental romance than can possibly be absorbed in 2 .. Seattle Pi
2.0
Baz Lurhman never sets a consistent tone for movie. Theres too much camp for the film to be taken as a serious drama, and the filmmaker flirts with ou .. Coles Mithey
2.5
The best that can be said for it is that at least its a beautiful failure. Pajiba
3.8
Kidman and Jackman ooze movie star chemistry, the latter in particular hefting this rather sluggish and ill defined tale upon his rugged shoulders car .. Movie Freak
4.0
That aside, the overall look and scope of the film tends to make up for the storytelling cliches, and the breathtaking visuals of Moulin Rouge! couldn ..
3.0
Fortunately, the drama behind the release of this movie isnt overshadowing the drama within the film itself.And while this isnt Titanic in scope and a .. 7M Pictures
1.3
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it. Film Freak Central
2.5
This costly, much troubled, forever in production epic nonetheless falls short of its lofty ambitions; undone by an unfortunate combination of hubris, .. Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
The beautiful locations and production values cant compensate for all the thin characters and lack of originality. E Online
2.5
It may not be the stuff from which classic films are typically born but such cliches provide a great featherbed of easy to digest references for the t .. The Age
2.5
Even when it presents more potent historical accounts, its far from compelling.
3.5
Australia tells a boilerplate tale already deeply embedded in the narratives of many a guilty imperial aggressor and its former colonies. La Weekly
4.0
Some of it doesnt work, but it remains a gloriously ambitious romantic epic and a truly memorable big screen movie experience. Mirror
3.5
And, instead of making it all seem new generation, its old school romanticizing makes it fall short of that target. Varia Gate
3.0
At its best, its funny, inventive and sweepingly sentimental. At its worst, its a dead root, a miscast romance between a sexless pairing of actors. Abc
1.5
The plots key turning points have either too much or not enough emphasis and are often in the wrong spot. Abc
4.0
Everything about it is big, brash and achingly beautiful; a popcorn epic to get lost in. Digital Spy
4.5
The photography is a knockout. All Australia needed was a script with a sustained story and a stronger sense of where, and how, tragic drama should ta .. Ft
5.0
Its an ode to a place (exotic to some, familiar to others), yes, but more than that, Australia is state of mind: wonderment, grandeur, beauty, love, e .. Christianity Today
2.5
Unfortunately, between its predictably and the absence of chemistry between Kidman and Jackman, Australia amounts to little more than an amusing if ju .. News Blaze
2.5
This is a mixed bag of entertainment.Big 1940s cinema style swells of emotion, panoramic cheeky cattle stampedes, and awesome WWII air raids fill the .. Ross Anthony
3.0
it has the uncanny ability to manipulate its audience into involuntary oohs and ahhs even while provoking it by using every hoary plot device imaginab .. Killer Movie Reviews
4.0
Rather, Australia is an enchanting throwback to an era of filmmaking which strived to entertain its audiences with dazzling spectacle and melodrama, c .. Matts Movie Reviews
3.0
The cast sells the stuffing out of anything the script gives them, creating more of a poignant journey for the final act than a violent one.The conclu .. Brian Or Ndorf
4.4
Australia appealed to the eyes as a travelogue but engaged the continents dark heart. The Filmy Ap
4.0
Not just unashamedly old fashioned, but altogether smug about it... For myself, I admire the defiant mustiness of the whole project. Antagony & Ecstasy
3.8
Playfully sweeping cameras, big, heartfelt emotions, and lots of spectacular spectacle. Big Picture Big Sound
1.9
The lead farm hand, Drover (Hugh Jackman), isnt even remotely impressed but doesnt have much choice other than to deal with her.
2.5
The sing song delivery is unnatural and reeks of overly attempted cuteness.Australia is not a complete loss, but it could have been a contender. Waffle Movies
4.4
Baz Lurhmanns nationalist fantasia is an epic, comic, sentimental and emotionally poetic adventure that embraces a nations pride and shame in equal me .. Js Online
2.5
Jackmans assured performance serves as a welcome anchor for the jam packed story line. Straight
2.5
A successful epic is more than just the sum of its expansive parts. Hollywood Chicago
5.0
Australia is a five course meal of a movie, an old fashioned yarn full of iconic imagery, soaring music and wonderful acting. Montreal Film Journal
4.0
Its a love story, a Western, a World War II saga, a social conscience drama and a remix of every classic Old Hollywood grand gesture ever committed to .. News Week
3.0
But, the movie is proof that an average script overcooked and over complicated can become a good movie through sheer directorial willpower and four X .. Sky
3.0
Australia is an epic love story, and a quite extraordinary piece of kitsch. Everything about the film is wildly over the top. Entertainment Times Online ..
4.0
If it sounds shallow and predictable, Australia is, in fact, anything but. Entertainment Times Online ..
3.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie. Window To The Movies
3.8
Comedy and tragedy, action and melodrama, full measures of quirk and swoon: Its just a plain good time at the movies. Chron
4.0
Instead its a thoroughly enjoyable romp a the cinematic equivalent of a bath full of Quality Street. Metro
1.9
More importantlywhy leave a corny, old fashioned screenplay corny and old fashioned Scene Stealers
2.5
an endurance test of good intentions and tangled ideas, exploited facts and fuzzy fictions, where the performances, like the plot, are slapped onto th .. Film 4
3.0
Instead, the film proves to be nothing more than a bloated mess that proves to be Luhrmanns worst film to date. Bowling Green Daily News
4.5
Yes, this is filmmaking in the old fashioned epic style but only up to a point. La Times
3.0
Much like Scorseses Gangs of New York, its a film that has been long labored over, and the artists love of the material is clear, but the inspiration .. Decent Films
4.0
Australia looks spectacular.It has some truly amazing shots of the outback, displaying both its tremendous beauty and overwhelmingly cruelty. Streaming Quickflix
4.0
Yet its almost naturalistic in comparison to the magic realism reserved for Nullah, a mixed race aboriginal boy, and for the ancient culture that clai .. Wsj
3.0
Australia provides some remarkable moments: remarkably beautiful, remarkably imaginative and, against all odds, genuinely moving, which in a movie thi .. Guide Live
3.0
Either theres a huge inside joke at work in Australia, or else the movie is just corny and weird. We liked watching it enough to vote for the first in .. Jam! Movies
5.0
Sean Penn isnt quite the public speaker that Harvey Milk was, but thats about the only shortcoming in his knockout performance as Milk.He still manage .. East Bay Express
2.5
The movie, though, is cautious and rather wan, a sort of Tiger Beatified Twin Peaks.But a lot of people have so much invested that theyll love it anyw .. Ny Mag
2.5
A note worthy attempt but its hard to ignore all the inconsistencies in this movie like the thrown in fish out of water segment about the Wizard of th .. Review Express
1.5
Its story is such a fusty melange of Western movie cliches that we might as well be camped out in the old cowpoke canyons of Utah, listening to the gh .. M Tv
3.5
A moviemaker as creative as Luhrmann should make more movies. If nothing else, Australia proves he needs the practice. Tri City Herald
3.0
Were that all Australia amounted to, it would be a dull and predictable, but hardly appalling, entry in the wannabe Gone with the Wind subgenre. Nicks Chager
3.5
If for some reason you hate the song, Somewhere Over the Rainbow you must avoid this film. Otherwise, its a crowd pleaser, especially the fairytale li .. The Scorecard Review
2.5
I mean, to pay quaint homage to the genre is expected but at least do it with the same heart and spirit. Can Mag
3.0
Its a corny, old fashioned epic with the usual digital compromises, but a gorgeous picture with genuine moist eyed moments, most thanks to Nicole Kidm .. Orlando Sentinel
1.5
A flawed, formulaic family crowd pleaser that barely succeeds as campy anachronistic period fluff. Will go down as a self indulgent disappointment in .. Dark Horizons
3.0
Its an endurance test that ends in moans of recognition as characters seem to be acting out scenes from other, better movies. Really, you dont want to .. Detroit News
3.0
The film will be nominated for gorgeous cinematography, the landscape forming the backdrop of a story that is more conventional than the sort director .. Compuserve
3.8
A beautifully rendered but flawed pastiche of the grand epics of old. The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
2.5
Still, noble intentions should never be confused with artistic achievement, and the film is more Academy Award doormat than politicized portrait. Cine Passion
3.0
An epic thats cute when it should be sweeping and richer in Aboriginal mysticism than genuine cinematic magic. Metromix.com
2.5
Call it a little show on a big stage, or tiny brushes on a huge canvas. But you also have to call it disappointing. Metromix.com
5.0
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3.0
This is a movie that doesnt just want to take over the cineplex it wants to own it. For better and worse, it has a hell of a time doing so, though not .. Week In Rewind
4.0
I adored it for the keeping alive so many of the sumptuous, romanced drenched elements of classic films like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca and Giant, .. The Diva Review
3.0
Its always nice to see pretty people doing great things, but in telling the story that should have been most his own, Luhrmann has ceded his vision to .. Movie Mom
3.8
Kitsch and cliche drive the story, but the faces and locations are stunning when the movies over, you feel like youve been somewhere and seen somethin .. Gomemphis
5.0
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4.5
Australia strains hard for epic Gone with the Wind territory, but it is undone by its own hubris, although, to be fair, the scenes of the Australian o .. The Tyee
2.5
It feels like an old fashioned movie epic, yes, but never a top shelf one. Blog Oregonlive
1.5
Australia is what you get when the film projector overheats and the only thing that comes out is pure corn syrup. Brandon Fibbs
2.0
Australia is sloppy, way too long, has awful dialogue, some bad special effects and very annoying characters.
3.1
The worst culprit of overacting is David Wenham, whose dastardly henchman Fletcher ends up perhaps the most risible movie villain since Billy Zanes Ca ..
2.5
Although visually interesting, this latest from Baz Luhrmann is all over a map bigger than Australia. Denton Record-Chronicle
4.0
Its as big and bold and unabashedly old fashioned as anything since Titanic, and as with that film, youll forgive its excesses and revel in its sweep. MSNBC
3.8
Australia offers an often engaging story with some amazing cinematic moments. News Ok
3.1
Unashamedly old fashioned and corny, if not quite up to the directors usual high standards. La Movie Boeuf Wordpress
1.5
Its not the ingredients that make a cinematic adventure a classic epic Australia has all of the ingredients its how you cook them and this one is over .. Movie Retriever
3.5
But there is something to be said for the well made, old fashioned epic and if this is your thing, and youre in the mood to sit still for nigh on thre .. Knight At The Movies
2.5
With plot is similar to a Barbara Stanwyck 50s Western by way of Out of Africa, Luhrmann directs Kidman in a surprisingly scene chewing performance.
3.0
Luhrmann labors to frame his work as a grandiose social problem film rarely has a movie tried so hard, and so fruitlessly, for our love Ie Weekly
2.8
You dont find many three hour fairy tale love story war films about race relations featuring the ultra competitive beef market in northern Australia. .. Sea Coast Online
2.5
Australia, director Baz Luhrmanns sweeping, romantic epic that takes place in the outback during the World War II era, is exactly like the Energizer B .. Wd Times
5.0
Heres a film you probably sneered at as its ads played for its mega plex roll out. I beg you not to let you keep that from now buying the DVD. Blunt Review
3.8
The film is trying at times, but there is no question that the sheer spectacle of the film makes much of the consternation worth it. Cinema Sight
1.0
You half expect a bloodied and battered Ben Affleck to be running shirtless in slow motion while an Aerosmith ballad blasts forth like cover fire from .. Rich Mond
2.5
But what might have worked as a buoyant throwback adventure yarn is instead weighted down with historical baggage, racial sermonizing, and, yes, frequ .. Tnr
3.5
Its a bracing bit of naughty iconoclasm very much out of keeping with the loopy yet disarmingly earnest set pieces that constitute this overstuffed sp .. Style Weekly
2.5
It is a huge film in scale, scope, look and feel, and of course budget. It is also a huge disappointment. Screen Wize
1.5
Country: United States Afghanistan Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Ban .. Miss Flick Chick
2.0
o Baz Luhrmann htizei enan oyranoksysti apo filodoksies, pairnei to asanser gia tin taratsa kai boytaei sto keno Movies for the Masses
2.5
The grand canvases of the raw outback and the fiery destruction of the Japanese warplanes were all completed with intricate detail. What Culture
3.3
A very loud, crazily colourful and delightfully strings free romp fun while it lasted and fondly recalled, but not, alas, the big love we yearned for. Time Out Sydney
3.8
Australia looks spectacular but, at two hours and 46 minutes, feels long. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
3.8
The excess is part of its charm; Luhrmann sees the classic movie genres as a magical playground and he wants to play on all the rides. Ac Weekly
2.5
Had the team abandoned the tediously tidy final third of the film and all the awful World War II shenanigans we obviously dont care about, Australia w .. Peterborough This Week
3.5
Despite its flaws and it certainly has flaws I think Australia is an impressive and important film. The Australian
2.5
With three storylines, a ludicrous performance by Kidman, and Bazs self indulgence getting the best of him, AUSTRALIA is one of this years biggest blu ..
2.0
But Lurhmanns compellingly bright direction reminds us that we can sing and dance even when life throws us its worst. Edge United States
3.0
A wildly enjoyable experience, reconstituting some of the great traditions of the art form in engaging, unexpected ways.
2.0
Jackman persuades as an Outback cowboy, Kidmans cut glass accent doesnt. Walters as Nullah is a great discovery. Australia is a soap opera of moods bu ..



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