Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a cattle driver (Jackman) in order to protect her new property from ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 3, 2009
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May 30, 2009What could have been 2008's great epic romance is instead another Pearl Harbor. Gorgeous cinematography and generally excellent production values fail to convince a jaded viewer that the fairy tale is real, because Luhrmann does not treat it that way. He attempts to recreate the ...( read more)
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May 24, 2009Baz Luhrmann's long awaited follow up to Moulin Rouge! is a bright, bold, epic adventure with sumptuous cinematography. Lady Sarah Ashley's life is forever changed when she travels to Australia to deal with a cattle farm that her philandering husband bought, and meets up ...( read more)
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April 16, 2009Once in a while there is a love story that comes along and sweeps us off our feet, this is definately one of those stories. This is a film that will definately take your breath away. A bold, lavish, wildly funny, stylish, outstanding and absolutely beautiful romantic epic of the ...( read more)
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April 4, 2009ok I adore Baz but this movie could have ended after they got the cows across the desert! or it could have been a whole other movie with the WW2 theame!
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November 19, 2009This was good. Start of it got a bit over the top comedy but just got interesting after that. Decent fictionalized tale as it delivered wonderfull cinematography, wow, must have been so hard to get it perfect. Kidman and Jackman were a great couple in the story and good performan...( read more)
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November 13, 2009This movie is not bad.It has a great story.The acting isn't bad either.
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November 12, 2009I loved this movie. Baz Luhrman is wonderful, no wonder he was the first film-maker inducted into the New York Gallery of Modern Art. This is a beautiful story and really shows Australia off. And yes, it got canned in America. Know why? Because it wasn't about Americans. No offense.
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Critic Reviews
January 5, 2009
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
November 26, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Australia tries to be a sprawling, romantic epic. Instead, it's a melodramatic exercise in tedium. full review
November 26, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Baz Luhrmann's Australia isn't a history of the penal colony turned commonwealth, but Luhrmann's absurd, cliché-ridden filmmaking ought to be a jailable offense. full review
November 26, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Comedy and tragedy, action and melodrama, full measures of quirk and swoon: It's just a plain good time at the movies. full review
November 26, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Australia is so damnably eager to please that it feels like being pinned down by a giant overfriendly dingo and having your face licked for about three hours: theoretically endearing but, honestly, ki... full review
November 26, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What a gorgeous film, what strong performances, what exhilarating images and -- yes, what sweeping romantic melodrama. full review
November 26, 2008
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
This almost three-hour epic keeps shooting for the stars but usually crash-lands with a thud. Someone should have told co-writer/director Baz Luhrmann that just because you call your movie Australia d... full review
November 26, 2008
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Australia strains to do it all, and finally all you can see is the strain. full review
November 26, 2008
Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun
Australia, set in Australia's Northern Territory, a land of romance and adventure, should have been a terrific epic, but instead is a lavish family time-killer. full review
November 26, 2008
Kimberly Jones, Austin Chronicle
Luhrmann wants it all -- comedy and tragedy, bombast and wet-eyed sentimentality. When it works, his kid-in-a-candy-store giddiness is infectious. When it doesn't, he punctures Australia's proportions... full review
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December 10, 2008i saw Kidman and Jackman at opra's show
it seems 2 B a good one
can't wait 2 see it..
allso Nicole Kidman is so great in her movies
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November 30, 2008omg ima bout to go watch it! hugh jackman is sooo damn sexyyyy,and n. kidman is awsome
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November 7, 2008can't wait to see this one. love both of them sooo much. its going to be wonderful.
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March 30, 2008baz lurham is a genius...hello? he made moulin rouge..only possibly the best movie ever made..and he made the new romeo and juliet..another creative movie..this movie therefor sounds promising
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