Reviews
Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up Review
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is the latest cinematic release from Warner Brothers, featuring the timeless Looney Tunes. With a lega...
Spit Review
David Wenham (Fake, Seachange) and Jonathon Teplitzky (Churchill, The Railway Man) reunite to deliver a Spitieri-centric Aussie crime comedy. Followin...
Hard Truths Review
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Fatman, The Sea Beast) effortlessly portrays a woman on the edge of an emotional breakdown. However, Mike Leigh’s Hard T...
I’m Still Here Review
Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) isn’t just a film; it’s an emotional gut-punch, a reckoning with Brazil’s unhealed wounds through the...
The Last Journey Review
In The Last Journey (Den sista resan), Swedish TV duo Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson embark on a road trip to the south of France, documenting Fi...
Bird Review
Life ain’t always empty. Few directors capture working-class life as authentically as Andrea Arnold. Arnold is one of a very few class-conscious direc...
The Last Showgirl Review
“This is the role I have been waiting for my entire career,” Pamela Anderson told the crowd at the Toronto Film Festival. Anderson has seen a long ove...
The Story of Souleymane Review
L’Histoire de Souleymane (or “Souleymane’s Story” in English) is a complex political storyline wrapped in a touching narrative of the titular So...
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Review
The opening hour of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy takes its sweet time—way too much of it, in fact. We meet Bridget several years after Bridget Jon...
Queer Review
Sometimes films set out to be unpleasant and unsettling – putting their audiences in a state of discomfort ultimately drives them to a greater underst...
We Live in Time Review
There is nothing that quite compares to a tear-jerker or a good romance and We Live in Time seems to be already demonstrating its prowess in both cate...
Monster Summer Review
Monster Summer is a nostalgic 90s horror flick that sets out to capture the attention of the whole family. It seems very rare that a ‘scary’ film actu...
Conclave Review
Ed Berger’s Conclave is interesting. It may be tempting to skip a pontificating deep-dive into the ritual process of electing a new Pope, for fear of ...
Paddington in Peru Review
Paddington in Peru, the third cinematic entry for Michael Bond’s famous bear, falls short of its predecessors. Directed by Dougal Wilson (his feature ...
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Review
Jeff Fowler and his familiar fast band of hyperactive heroes return to Aussie cinemas this boxing day, with Sonic The Hedgehog 3. A surprisingly decen...
Nosferatu Review
Robert Eggers continues kicking goals with Nosferatu, released by Focus Features and Universal this New Year. Long story short: if you’re a fan of Egg...
Audrey Review
Natalie Bailey (Retrograde, The Thick of It) and Lou Sanz (The PM’s Daughter) present cinema goers with a sardonic, dysfunctional, contemporary Aussie...
Your Monster Review
Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera) is having the worst time. Not only has her boyfriend broken up with her while she’s been undergoing cancer treatment, b...
Wicked Part 1 Review
I’ve heard it said that movies come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn, and Wicked (Part 1). From the director that brought...