Mystery Road
An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
19 August 1973, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
19 February 1962, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
28 November 1976, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
5 September 1943, Cummeragunja, Australia
1941, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
1947, Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand
4 April 1960, Ibadan, Nigeria
1971, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
August 29, 2014
Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback.
August 28, 2014
Director Ivan Sen's fourth feature evokes old westerns, Polanski's Chinatown and other noir classics, but still feels grounded in the dust and dried blood of the Australian soil.
August 31, 2014
Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene - social, racial and economic.
August 28, 2014
A striking and menacing slow-burn thriller set in the Australian outback which blends dry humour with startling social commentary.
August 29, 2014
Slow-burning but very powerful.
September 01, 2014
This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback.
August 29, 2014
Aaron Pendersen is thoroughly believable as the conflicted Jay and the blasted landscape is photographed so well you'll be sweating and swatting the flies away from your own face after 10 mins.
August 29, 2014
A superior and taut outback adventure, you'd have to go back to Samson and Delilah to find an Australian feature this bonsa.
August 28, 2014
Mystery Road may be set in modern Queensland but it has the feel of a flinty, slow-burning western as one stetson-wearing lawman stands against an entire community.
June 27, 2016
I won't lie and say Mystery Road kept me on the edge of my seat for its duration, but there is a lot to enjoy in its delicately peeled back layers.
August 28, 2014
This sand-blasted Aussie murder mystery tinkers with genre convention while managing to remain sincere and thrilling.
