Damage received a positive review from Sarah Ward in her review for Screen Daily. She writes: "Filled with poetic dialogue, this sensitive and stirring Australian drama from theatre veteran and actor Madeleine Blackwell is equally portrait and statement, honing in on two strangers fighting to control their lives while discovering that they have more in common than they realise."
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Damage received a positive review from Penelope Debelle of InReview. She writes: "All this is remarkably effective and moving. The film has taken years to find a distributor who believed in and understood a minor, low-budget, heartfelt film that is more a meditation on grief and loss than a story with a plot. There is no neat ending because life doesn’t work that way."
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Damage was the recipient of a positive review by reviewer Julian Wood for Filmink. It received a rating using their ticket value system of $16.00 from their maximum $20.00. Wood comments: "In its understated way, this is quite a powerful examination of the various forms of damage that life can bring, and the strategies people must adopt to survive them."
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