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1 Back to the Outback Review – Ho-hum Animation Won’t Thrill Viewers Whose Age Exceeds Their Shoe Size Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 December 2021;

— Review of Back to the Outback Harry Cripps , 2021 single work film/TV

'Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin and Miranda Tapsell voice Netflix’s high jinks-filled film that condescends to children.'

1 John Farrow: The Star Australian Director Who Hollywood Forgot Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 November 2021;

'A new documentary examines Mia Farrow’s father, a prolific film-maker from Marrickville with a backstory stranger than fiction.'

1 New Gold Mountain Review – Lush Neo-western Takes a New Route through Gold Rush Australia Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 October 2021;

— Review of New Gold Mountain Peter Cox , Benjamin Law , Yolanda Ramke , Greg Waters , Pip Karmel , 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'Beautiful, heightened drama series following the Chinese community in 1850s Ballarat gives a fresh, cinematic spin on history'

1 From Captain Invincible to Cleverman : The Weird and Wild History of Australian Superheroes Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 August 2021;
1 Andrew Dominik on 20 Years of Chopper : ‘Ethics Have Nothing to Do with It’ Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 August 2021;

— Review of Chopper Andrew Dominik , 2000 single work film/TV

'The director says his film was sympathetic to Mark Brandon Read and ‘on his side’. It had to be – to understand his violence.' 

1 Wakefield Review – Superbly Made and Utterly Riveting Series Based in a Psych Ward Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 April 2021;

— Review of Wakefield Kristen Dunphy , Sam Meikle , Joan Sauers , Cathy Strickland , 2021 series - publisher film/TV
'A far cry from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the ABC’s new drama is a nuanced exploration of the inner and outer worlds of patients and staff'
1 Mother and Son : the Great Australian Sitcom Is a Masterclass in the Art of the Squabble Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 March 2021;

'Garry McDonald and Ruth Cracknell are terrifically spiky and shouty in the acclaimed vintage comedy that’s still so funny, all these years later.'

1 The End Review – Spiky, Witty Drama on Death That Sometimes Shifts into the Absurd Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 February 2021;

— Review of The End Samantha Strauss , 2020 series - publisher film/TV

'A mordant humour is never far from the surface in this series that pivots boldly but not insensitively on the issue of assisted dying.'

1 High Ground Review – Simon Baker Narrowly Escapes White Saviour Tropes in Colonial Australia Luke Buckmaster , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 January 2021;

— Review of High Ground Chris Anastassiades , 2019 single work film/TV

'A white sharpshooter and an Indigenous survivor of a massacre reunite after 12 years in a gracefully directed but rather Anglo-centric western.'

1 A Sunburnt Christmas Review – A Very Australian Bad-Santa Comedy for a Jolly Holiday Season Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 December 2020;

— Review of A Sunburnt Christmas Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , 2020 single work film/TV

'Bondi Hipster Christiaan Van Vuuren’s outback romp about a nogoodnik St Nick is spirited and sweet in a backhanded way.'

1 The Furnace Review – David Wenham's Gold Thief Traverses Harsh Outback Morality Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 December 2020;

— Review of The Furnace Roderick MacKay , 2020 single work film/TV

'Debut director Roderick MacKay’s compelling meat pie western poses questions about Australian identity but never feels polemical or even political' 

1 2067 Review – Kodi Smit-McPhee Is the Chosen One in Aspirational but Cliched Climate Sci-fi Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 October 2020;

— Review of 2067 Seth Larney , Dave Paterson , 2019 single work film/TV

'High-end looks on a low budget aren’t enough to make up for writer/direct Seth Larney’s hackneyed script.'

1 All Hail the Return of Rosehaven : A Soothing Balm for Anxious Times Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 July 2020;

— Review of Rosehaven Luke McGregor , Celia Pacquola , 2016 series - publisher film/TV
1 The Very Excellent Mr Dundee Review – Paul Hogan Tries to Not Get Cancelled in Confused Film Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 July 2020;

— Review of The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Robert Mond , Dean Murphy , 2020 single work film/TV

'The meta-ish film paints its star – and ‘old fashioned comedy’ – as victims of the modern world.'

1 ‘A Battery Drain on My Mind, Body and Soul’ : Warwick Thornton on Why He Needed to Escape in The Beach Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 29 May 2020;

'It seems almost trite to say it at this point, but the director Warwick Thornton’s visually serene and philosophical six-part series The Beach arrives perfectly timed: taking audiences to a secluded beach shack at Jilirr, on the picturesque Dampier Peninsula, on the north-west coast of Western Australia.' (Introduction)

1 Blue Murder at 25 : Why It's a Pulse-pounding Australian Crime Classic Luke Buckmaster , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 29 March 2020;
1 Sandy Harbutt on the Film that Paved the Way for Mad Max Luke Buckmaster (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 November 2019;
1 Lambs of God Review – Audacious Fable of Blood-swilling Nuns Vs Church Politics Luke Buckmaster , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 22 July 2019;

— Review of Lambs of God Sarah Lambert , 2019 series - publisher film/TV

'Adaptation of Marele Day’s novel is a gothic, grisly and deliriously compelling view of cynical, contemporary Catholicism.'

1 'Profoundly Traumatic' : How Adam Cullen's Story Was Retold for the Screen Luke Buckmaster , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 May 2019;

'Writer Erik Jensen and film-maker Thomas M Wright fought ‘tooth and nail’ on the adaptation – and called in Christos Tsiolkas to mediate.' 

1 Aaron Pedersen : Is the Mystery Road Star One of the Greatest Actors of His Generation? Luke Buckmaster (interviewer), 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 12 August 2018;
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