Garrett Hedlund looks like a fourth Hemsworth, sun-bleached hair and dreamy eyes. He has the harder role, skirting between misery and a deeper layer of misery.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

A beautiful bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | May 13, 2022

Dirt Music has few pleasures to recommend it, and even with a relatively lean running time of an hour and 45 minutes, it limps to an unexciting conclusion with the pace of an injured snail.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2021

It isn't a great romantic movie, but it's certainly one of the best-looking. Despite that, it's still an overly pompous and self-indulgent melodrama. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 6, 2021

Despite being based on the best seller of the same name from well-renowned author Tim Winton, the cinematic adaptation doesn't really compliment the novel. It feels as if you could read the book quicker than getting through the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2021

Risibly far-fetched, contrived and unoriginal.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2021

Dirt Music" suffers from a lack of rhythm and a not very elaborate plot.

Full Review | Jul 5, 2021

Trades in melodrama while Macdonald and Hedlund are playing it straight. Both are bound by grief but the very thing that connects them feels at odds with the film's over-dramatic edge.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

"Dirt Music" is a film that begs to explore race, environmental impacts of working-class pursuits, and the law's reflex to "look the other way" to influential power brokers...melodramatic romance at the core has the loudest voice.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 19, 2020

While not exactly a terrible film, definitely a dull film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2020

Dirt Music wants to elicit an emotional reaction but it fails to do so.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 29, 2020

This is a very handsome film that takes full advantage of the land- and seascapes it's set on.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2020

The vibe is a Nicholas Sparks adaptation with an outback twist, though Jordan was obviously shooting for profundity and visual lyricism

Full Review | Oct 9, 2020

He's not an impossible author to film, but a challenging one to translate from page to screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 7, 2020

While it plays out against the glories of the Dampier Peninsula, the splendors of the backdrop can't make up for the fact events in the foreground are failing to make sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2020

There's beauty to be seen constantly, but the surface-level attractiveness is unable to distract its audience from the story's lack of depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 4, 2020

...there are some things that happen near the end that are inexplicable in the rational universe. Sometimes, love too, is a miracle.

Full Review | Original Score: 16/20 | Oct 1, 2020

Dirt Music is a perfect postcard promotion image for Western Australia, and while it has its fair share of stumbles (...) there is still an undeniable emotional truth to the film that resonates long and loud.

Full Review | Sep 25, 2020

...as a film, Dirt Music leaves us stuck in the mud.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2020

So much of Dirt Music feels like it happens on the fringes of a more interesting narrative.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 22, 2020