Film review: Silent Friend
Tony Leung’s second non-Chinese film is a beautiful, meditative thesis of change and isolation. It’s not trying to please everyone, but it opens up to…
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readTony Leung’s second non-Chinese film is a beautiful, meditative thesis of change and isolation. It’s not trying to please everyone, but it opens up to…
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readSydneysider Milly Alcock joins the superhero ranks in this messy, rushed and often ugly production that nevertheless is never boring or soulless
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readHugh Jackman is an old Robin Hood in a gritty retelling that tears apart the myth, and a little Australian horror movie dives deep into…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min readSteven Spielberg returns to familiar ground in a surprisingly personal and emotional film, and Dustin Hoffman passes the baton to a new generation in a…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min readA haunting and compelling German film observes four generations of women in a small farm.
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readHelen MacDonald’s famous memoir about grief and hawking finally gets an adaption with Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson.
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readAgnieszka Holland’s biopic of Frank Kafka admits that the quest to understand is an exercise in futility, but that doesn’t stop her trying.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readAnne Hathway stars as a pop superstar trying to reclaim her identity surrounded by dehumanising fame. And Jodie Foster is a psychiatrist investigating the death…
By Francisco Silva - 7 min readThe surprise of the year, this whodunnit with talking animals and starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson has little to complain about except how charming…
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readWarwick Thornton’s sequel to Sweet Country continues to explore the Australian outback between World Wars through an essential First Nations point of view.
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readMichael Jackson’s long-awaited biopic dodges the elephant in the room and delivers something so sanitised it barely registers as a movie. On the other hand,…
By Francisco Silva - 8 min readFor the first time, a French filmmaker adapts Albert Camus’ loved and complex novel The Stranger.
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readJim Jarmusch’s new film features a stellar cast in three melancholic stories about family, while a new Iraqi neo-realist film explores 90s Iraq through the…
By Francisco Silva - 7 min read