reviews

“The Jammed is a fast, thudding, ultra-timely expose, a bucket of icy cold water thrown on the groggy, ambivalent face of public conscience”

 Luke Buckmaster INFILM

the guardian review - 2015

In a June 2015 Review in The Guardian, entitled “Indie thriller that became a runaway Aussie success,” Luke Buckmaster describes how when "David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz gave The Jammed gushing reviews, audiences arrived to see what the fuss was about. Word of mouth spread, and the film went on to achieve the highest-grossing weekly opening screen average of any Australian indie in history. Screenings expanded across the country and two weeks became 20. 

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"...The film sparked a national conversation … McLachlan hangs everything together with a throbbing sense of immediacy, spanning the film’s pre-opening credit glimpses of a woman quizzed by police to a powder-keg finale of dramatic moments… THE JAMMED is an Aussie indie through and through -– and an oxygen-depleting thriller to savour and revisit.  THE JAMMED is an Aussie indie through and through -– and an oxygen-depleting thriller to savor and revisit.”