Melanie Lynskey

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 18, 2001Schoolgirl Lovers-Killers/True Crime
Peter Jackson emerged to wide acclaim with this film based on a true-life New Zealand murder. It is also a film of absurd pretensions where Jackson seems less interested in the real incident and more distracted by effects trickery
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Rating: ★★
Jul 15, 2012End of the World Romantic Comedy
The End of the World seems the least likely backdrop for a romantic comedy. Newcomer Lorene Scafaria seems less interested in depicting social collapse than in making an insipid romcom road movie with two leads who fail to strike up any connection
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The Changeover (2017)

The Changeover (2017)
Rating: ★★
Mar 26, 2018Young Adult/Teen Witch's Journey
Adaptation of a book by NZ author Margaret Mahy. Mahy has a sublimely poetic turn of phrase in the writing but the film strips the book down to the point we get no more than a by-the-numbers Young Adult work
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XX (2017)

XX (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 5, 2017Women-Directed Horror Anthology
As directors, women are underrepresented – in terms of the content listed on this side, for example, probably less than 5% has been made by women. As a believer in equal opportunities for all, one can only cheer on XX where five women have gotten together to make a horror anthology
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Don’t Look Up (2021)

Don’t Look Up (2021)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 8, 2022The End of the World/Satire
The perfect film for the Covid era. A devastatingly on the ball satire on the ineptitude of people’s response in the face of an extinction level threat to the Earth from an oncoming comet as government agencies tries to minimise the news
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