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Summary Jaded police detective Travis Hurley (Simon Baker) arrives in the remote Australian Outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of a local Indigenous girl 20 years ago. As truths about the crime begin to unfold, Travis gains new insight into the unsolved case from the victim’s fractured family, the surviving witnesses, and ...

Directed By: Ivan Sen

Written By: Ivan Sen

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Limbo

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Jaded police detective Travis Hurley (Simon Baker) arrives in the remote Australian Outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of a local Indigenous girl 20 years ago. As truths about the crime begin to unfold, Travis gains new insight into the unsolved case from the victim’s fractured family, the surviving witnesses, and ...

Directed By: Ivan Sen

Written By: Ivan Sen

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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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100
Mar 22, 2024
Limbo is a cinematic monument for the shadows of the doomed.
By Michael Talbot-Haynes FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 19, 2024
Limbo is entirely engrossing as it brings its discomfiting points home.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
May 17, 2023
The cast, in weather-beaten and woebegone mode, are uniformly excellent, directed by Sen in beautiful unison, their performances different notes in the same melody.
By Luke Buckmaster FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 24, 2023
It is a tough, muscular film with the grit of crime, but a heartbeat of compassion.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
72
Mar 21, 2024
A return to form for writer/director Ivan Sen—an Indigenous Australian filmmaker whose 2013 movie Mystery Road, its sequel and its miniseries spin-off all deal with similar subject matter—this cold-case thriller hacks through its genre clichés and Christian symbolism early so we can appreciate its charming, somber core.
By Jacob Oller FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 19, 2024
I was wholly taken in by the forlorn setting and by the racism subtext in play here. But too little happens in “Limbo” for my taste, and there’s a fine line between “patient” storytelling and a film so slack in its pacing as to lower the stakes and test the viewer’s patience.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 2, 2023
If viewers manage to sync with this specific wavelength, they will definitely enjoy Sen’s methodical noir deconstruction. Still, it might be asking too much from the audience, especially where there’s so little payoff to be found in this corner of the Australian outback.
By Marco Vito Oddo FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bunya Productions, Windalong Films
Release Date Mar 22, 2024
Duration 1 h 48 m
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Website https://bunyaproductions.com.au/productions/limbo/
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Awards

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 6 Wins & 8 Nominations
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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