The New York Times
The movie just seems to happen, to grow out of the ground like a thorny plant, revealing the intricate intelligence of its design only in hindsight.
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Winner of 7 Australian Film Institute Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and all four acting categories)
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Rolling Stone
The acting is top-notch, and LaPaglia, who makes the cop's torment palpable, gives the performance of his career.
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Roger Ebert
What's surprising is how easy it is to follow the plot, and how the coincidences don't get in the way.
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Hollywood Reporter
A strong, consistently engrossing drama that boils with emotions distinctly real and recognizable.
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BBC
Lean, hard and ruthless, the movie is flab-free– a stripped down, tough younger brother to Paul Thomas Anderson's glorious "Magnolia" (another multi-stranded, flower-named flick).
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