Anwen Crawford

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review Sep 2, 2025 3.5/5 The strength of Sorry, Baby is its unpredictability. The film is amusing in places where other directors might have chosen seriousness, and then suddenly full of dread, its veering tone mimicking Agnes’s interior state. Go to Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% - -

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review Jul 29, 2025 2.5/5 A film adaptation of a book should be judged on its own merits, and unfortunately for co-directors and screenwriters Scott McGehee and David Siegel, their film is mediocre: watchable, yet totally forgettable. Go to Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% - -

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review Sep 17, 2024 2/5 It’s a film that takes place in a nowhere made of other films; for all the cavities on show, it is depthless, and its violence is both numbing and fatuous. Go to Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% - -

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review May 9, 2024 3.5/5 The film’s ensemble cast is uniformly strong, including tiny Dzada Selim as kindergartener Mia, raucous yet wise beyond her years. Go to Full Review Housekeeping for Beginners (2023) 94% - -

Anwen Crawford Sydney Morning Herald Jul 18, 2023 3/5 Ultimately, Barbie the film suffers from the same problem as Barbie the character: it ends up flat-footed. The film is buoyed by jokes yet heavy with speeches. Go to Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% 29%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Nov 17, 2021 Eliza Hittman's drama is marked by the emotional solidarity of its teen protagonists... Go to Full Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 99% 55%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Dec 18, 2020 Who among a queer viewership will want to watch a comedy in which the leading queer characters spend all their time making each other truly miserable? Go to Full Review Happiest Season (2020) 82% 73%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Sep 25, 2020 A bonkers and very bad film that isn't even willing to be properly silly, and instead skids in and out of patches of spiritless violence. Go to Full Review The Translators (2019) 68% 48%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Aug 7, 2020 Nothing here is simple -- alliances are constantly shifting. Go to Full Review First Cow (2019) 95% 65%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) May 22, 2020 All this metatextual cleverness might be unbearable in another, tighter sort of comedy, but one lasting pleasure of the Trip series has been its utter shagginess. Go to Full Review The Trip to Greece (2020) 88% 51%

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review Nov 20, 2019 2.5/5 The sense that we're watching events occur outside a real time or place distances us from them. The film's main achievement is in visual design. Go to Full Review Judy & Punch (2019) 77% 59%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Nov 15, 2019 [Scott Z. Burns] personalises the villains and, in doing so, diminishes the scope of US power and the extent to which that power has been abused. Go to Full Review The Report (2019) 83% 82%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Oct 25, 2019 In its devotion, Blinded by the Light does something to convey the sheer desperate quality of obsessive fandom. Go to Full Review Blinded by the Light (2019) 89% 91%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Oct 17, 2019 This is the same old cautionary tale of a woman whose appetite for love exceeds what custom decrees she should settle for, and with the same conclusion: her hunger is its own inevitable punishment. Go to Full Review Judy (2019) 82% 85%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Aug 29, 2019 The first night has the intimacy, and intensity, of something more or less private that we happen to be fortunate enough to peek in on. But the second night is charged with public expectation... Go to Full Review Amazing Grace (2018) 99% 80%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Jul 12, 2019 If you can deal with its unflagging zest -- for some I suspect it will grate like nails down a blackboard in the classroom of their nightmares -- then you may enjoy watching Booksmart. I did. Go to Full Review Booksmart (2019) 96% 77%

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review May 17, 2019 3/5 Like so many American stories, Little Woods is a drama about personal agency, but it's also a dramatisation of what it means, in material terms, to have very little agency to exercise. Go to Full Review Little Woods (2018) 95% - -

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review Jan 11, 2019 2.5/5 ...why render it all over again, especially when the whole scenario is left to fizzle out, and is never revived? Go to Full Review Loro (2018) 79% 59%

Anwen Crawford The Monthly (Australia) Dec 3, 2018 They've been dismissed and patronised, but Beatlemaniacs, Directioners and other fangirls are very self-aware about their boy band "affliction." Go to Full Review I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (2018) 94% 88%

Anwen Crawford Australian Book Review Dec 1, 2018 3.5/5 Plummer plays the part with an emotional discipline that belies his youth. Go to Full Review Lean on Pete (2017) 90% 74%