Film review: The Invite
Olivia Wilde rebounds from a critical and public flop with a funny and entertaining character study about marriages.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readOlivia Wilde rebounds from a critical and public flop with a funny and entertaining character study about marriages.
By Francisco Silva - 4 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 readAn impressive feature debut, Scrapper charmingly merges the British tradition of ‘kitchen sink drama’ with magic realism.
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readCeline Song’s feature debut is a worthy successor of Before Sunrise and Lost In Translation. Heartbreaking and beautifully acted, but it is Song’s direction that elevates…
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readOn his third feature, Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason steps up his game in a beautiful but bleak meditation on the destructiveness of masculinity against an…
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readFor his eleventh feature, Wes Anderson uses all the tricks to prove he’s not losing his sentimental and visual playfulness.
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readThe new Australian cult horror film delivers the goods but falls short of brilliance.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readIt is the long-awaited double-bill of the year from two acclaimed-filmmakers: Barbie versus Oppenheimer.
By Francisco Silva and Amy Dale - 6 min readThis uniquely international production, shot in Australia, offers a new take on Bizet’s Carmen. With Paul Mescal and Melissa Barrera, it is visually powerful and more…
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readThis week Australia’s finest filmmaker is joined by the country’s finest actor, for a film about the destructive nature of our colonial past, while the…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min readSpielberg out, Mangold in, as Ford takes up the character for the last time in a bid to make peace with the fans after the…
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readJennifer Lawrence does her best to elevate this raunchy comedy that tries hard to replicate the charm, and humour, of the classics in the genre.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min read