In a melodrama that paints a vivid caricature of a town and its secrets, Winslet shines like a star who gets better with each role... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 30, 2024

Not all of the fits and starts of many, many dalliances of the film end up working, but the presence of Oscar winner Kate Winslet demands attention.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 7, 2024

A delightful feminist take on the spaghetti Western.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

The Dressmaker is recommended for those who enjoy a female tour de force and the unexpected visual pleasure of cinema cut from different cloth than standard Hollywood issue.

Full Review | May 20, 2022

Filled with stunning outfits, a superb cast and a soupcon of subversive humour, The Dressmaker is one of the best Australian movies in years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 18, 2021

The actors embrace the mayhem, with the remarkable, energetic Davis in the lead.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2021

Moorhouse matches the aesthetic hyperbole with a tone heightened to an unrelenting fever pitch.

Full Review | Jan 5, 2021

...easily one of the most iconic, defining entries in the Australian film pantheon.

Full Review | Dec 15, 2020

...a goofy screwball comedy/melodrama mash-up set in the 1950s. The top-notch cast is led by Kate Winslet...

Full Review | Jun 18, 2020

The Dressmaker contains enough plot twists and mood changes for a whole season of TV drama.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2020

It could become this cult-y camp classic. It's there.

Full Review | May 6, 2020

I had so much fun in this movie. It was so silly, bonkers, twisted, fun.

Full Review | May 6, 2020

Despite its getting lost in the final act, the movie manages to be enticing and darkly humorous to the core. Not a bad entry from Down Under.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2020

Watching this mostly gentile outing morph rather magically into a subversive revenge comedy left me reeling at first, then laughing very loudly indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

'The Dressmaker' needs some alterations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2019

What stops The Dressmaker from being a stand out film is the storytelling itself: important facts that would have made for intriguing clues are left to the last minute, costing it that finesse which could have made it great.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2019

It continually surprised me and all the performances are so campy and fun that it worked.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2019

The Dressmaker is a peculiar little offering from Australia that matches elements of drama with farce.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2019

You can't accuse The Dressmaker of putting style over substance because it has both in spades.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

The Dressmaker wagers that its audience might only get out to see one film in theaters this year, so it should cram all the genres they love into its two-hour runtime.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2018