The Dressmaker

I can’t say this is the best film you will see all year, but I can assure you won’t see another one like it again for a long time.

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Kate Winslet stars as a '50s fashionista out for revenge in Jocelyn Moorhouse's Australia-set film.

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But it’s still a giggle, largely thanks to Tilly’s cantankerous mother (Judy Davis) and the camp local cop (Hugo Weaving).

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Worse is that The Dressmaker has almost no narrative propulsion, lulling about as it cycles through subplots.

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Jocelyn Moorhouse returns from a long absence from the director's chair with this appreciably deranged small-town revenge fable.

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Kate Winslet Saves the Poor and Miserable With Couture in the Insulting 'The Dressmaker'

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Unfortunately, and despite its promising start, The Dressmaker doesn’t move much beyond the level of well-costumed playacting.

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Star plays a social pariah who returns to scene of a crime for revenge — and makeovers — in A-list Aussie drama.

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Kate Winslet causes a stir in the Australian outback in this absurdly overripe melodrama.

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Despite Winslet's stunning cowgirl fashionista, The Dressmaker is a whole lot of weirdness packed into a story that stumbles around like an emotionally-inept drunk.

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Death, rape, domestic violence and really great dresses - this strange Australian film has it all, but somehow needs more.

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Overplotted, undercooked and extremely well-dressed, The Dressmaker has style to burn, but it has a mean streak as wide as the Outback.

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The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.

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Like the title figure’s decision to stop having Alzheimer’s halfway through, the movie’s tonal lurches are bizarre and inexplicable, and a flashback to 25 years ago might be the stupidest resolution to a murder mystery I’ve ever seen on film.

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