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Genre :

Drama, Romance, Action

Release Date :

November 26, 2008

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Baz Luhrmann

Starring :

Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Wenham, Essie Davis

REVIEWS RATE: Critics Readers [Rate It]

“..old-school and conventional..”

by Claudia Puig [USA Today]

Review rate : B-

“..lavish, screen-filling, unashamedly sappy..”

by William Arnold [Seattle Post Intelligencer]

“..entertaining..”

by Moira Macdonald [Seattle Times]

“..deliriously camp and shamelessly overdone..”

by Sandra Hall [Sydney Morning Herald]

“..corny, old-fashioned epic..”

by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel]

“..big, bold and beautiful..”

by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic]

“..big and bold and brash..”

by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]

“..as vastly entertaining as Australia is vast..”

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Review rate : C+
Reviewed by Chris Farnsworth [E! Online]

Reviewed by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

Reviewed by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com]

Review rate : C-
Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]

Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]

Reviewed by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News]

Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]

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