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Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a quadruple threat as writer, director, composer and cinematographer of this wily Australian thriller.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Goldstone is nothing if not a focused, unified piece.
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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
The pace might be slow, but it allows some great performances to breathe.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Its sociopolitical concerns — primarily around indigenous land rights — are muted and muddled by a script that favors manly grunting and moody looks over clarifying dialogue. Riven with racism and sharp bursts of violence, Goldstone nevertheless has a rough, desolate beauty.
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Arizona Republic by Kerry Lengel
As a cinematic diatribe set in a stark moral universe, Goldstone comes in loud and clear.
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Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
It is not a story of justice, but of a kind of standoff between good and evil. Initially, there seems precious little of the former.
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Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
This is Pedersen's second movie for Sen in the same role (after "Mystery Road," with a reported Australian television series in the works), and his Jay is the kind of compellingly gloomy, intelligent and tough justice-seeker easily worth a whole series of politically thorny, culturally resonant crime sagas.
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Screen International by Sarah Ward
Even when the lines uttered sound more like a statement than an actual conversation, Sen remains a master of everything he controls as Goldstone slowly inches towards its bullet-riddled finale.
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Village Voice by Serena Donadoni
When the violence comes, as it must, Sen stages his shoot-outs with the physical and emotional wallop of the best westerns, but he’s more interested in restoring the faith of law enforcement officers whose belief in justice has eroded.