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Mystery Road
An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.



















5 September 1943, Cummeragunja, Australia

19 August 1973, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia

1966, Perth, Western Australia, Australia


17 September 1945, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand


31 August 1940, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

19 February 1962, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

22 January 1971, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1947, Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand



23 February 1992, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

24 November 1970, Alice Springs, Australia


1941, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia


1971, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia


28 November 1976, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia





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 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
Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback.
August 28, 2014
This sand-blasted Aussie murder mystery tinkers with genre convention while managing to remain sincere and thrilling.
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 29, 2014
Slow-burning but very powerful.
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 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.
September 01, 2014
This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback.