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Nikki Gemmell

Nikki Gemmell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “This will never belong in the pantheon of cinematic concert greats such as Talking Heads’ Stop making Sense, Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace or Prince’s Sign o’ the Times, but it’s mightily enjoyable – because of the sheer generosity in the showmanship.” – The Australian Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 60% 5/5 EDIT “The movie is soaked in a yearning that females of all persuasions will recognise. Here’s to our inner, liquid howl of want.” – The Australian Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A playful, nervy title, just like this movie. Its perceptive wisdom will stay with me.” – The Australian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Addition (2024) 60% 3.5/5 EDIT “ It’s not going to set the world on fire, but it’s fun, sexy and thoroughly enjoyable. It’s also informative about the frustrations and wonders of existing with neuro-dazzlement, and what happens when drugs quell the vividness.” – The Australian Feb 3, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “No Other Choice is a wickedly funny lament for a kinder, gentler existence. It’s also ravishing to look at.” – The Australian Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s easy listening, easy watching. A sequin-saturated, warm and funny blast from the past with top notes of drama and tragedy. ” – The Australian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “Christy has the feel of a B-grade movie, a regular sports biopic, but a good one. It lacks the power of complex, surprising emotional storytelling because the filmmakers have to span decades, cramming in episodes from a busy life.” – The Australian Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “Moments of urgent narrative propulsion are flat. There’s little dramatic conflict. No grit. A tugging love story is buried in there somewhere but it’s been lost in translation. The entire production feels like it’s suffering from drama avoidance syndrome.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 76% 4.5/5 EDIT “The film is fantastical yet grounded in moving truths, warm and heart tugging and laugh-out-loud witty. You exit its world with a glow of satisfaction.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 4/5 EDIT “Is this second half better than the first? No. But they’re part of a whole. Wicked will go down in history as one of the greatest films of the musical genre, and, refreshingly, with two females and their friendship central to the narrative.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “[If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is] a portrait of exhausted helplessness, as the film’s title so aptly suggests. I’d give this movie two stars, but Byrne’s monumental performance lifts it to three.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “This is an incendiary take [on motherhood], tender and terrible, and we don’t see this perspective enough in film.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The film is smart, warm and oh, so relatable. Terrifying too, but hopeful.” – The Australian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “Del Toro’s Frankenstein is an overlong, relentlessly violent and indulgent mash-up of the original. It takes the bare bones of Shelley’s story and kills its clear, clean clarity. ” – The Australian Oct 28, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 3.5/5 EDIT “This one isn’t among Guadagnino’s most resonant, but it’s a film of now; providing a corrective, perhaps, a rebuke to the recent past. It proves that nothing is black and white – or in terms of the oeuvre of a boldly compelling filmmaker, predictable.” – The Australian Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Homebound (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The film stands powerfully alongside Gallipoli, Withnail and I, Brokeback Mountain and Moonlight as a moving paean to the bindings of brotherhood.” – The Australian Oct 4, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 2/5 EDIT “This sequel feels as long as an extended guitar solo you did not ask for, in a concert that started two hours late.” – The Australian Oct 4, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “A sophisticated chase film, with added flavour of society breaking down, yet it’s not done as provocatively as Alex Garland’s Civil War.” – The Australian Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Kangaroo (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Kangaroo follows the predictable path of children’s films, but it’s elevated by the sheer force of its plucky personality, thanks to its dry-as-a-bone wit from scriptwriter Harry Cripps (The Dry, Penguin Bloom.)” – The Australian Sep 26, 2025 Full Review
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