The tailoring is more consistent than the storytelling in “The Dressmaker,” an appreciably deranged tale of small-town intrigue that finds Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse returning quite ...

There is a murder mystery at the core of Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker. The film, which is adapted from the novel by Rosalie Ham, revolves around the small town of Dungatar, in Australia, in the ...

So Tilly Dunnage announces in “The Dressmaker” as she arrives in her hometown of Dungatar, a miserable little splotch on the map in rural Australia. It’s the 1950s, and in that greeting, Tilly — ...

“The Dressmaker” two and half stars out of four Stars: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse Length: 118 minutes Rated: R “I’m back, you bastards.” So Tilly Dunnage announces in ...

The movie careens from comedy to drama to camp without warning Winslet is really good; Davis is even better as her addled mother, Mad Molly Critic's rating: 3 stars out of 5 “I’m back, you bastards.” ...

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Kate Winslet makes a defiant entrance in The Dressmaker: announced by foreboding drums, her Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage steps off a bus in the decaying wheat-belt hamlet of Dungatar like an avenging angel.

Jocelyn Moorhouse returns from a long absence from the director's chair with this appreciably deranged small-town revenge fable. “I’m back, you bastards,” snarls Tilly Dunnage (Winslet), formerly ...