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…
Film review: Disclosure Day, Tuner
Steven Spielberg returns to familiar ground in a surprisingly personal and emotional film, and Dustin Hoffman passes the baton to a new generation in a…
Film review: Sound of Falling
A haunting and compelling German film observes four generations of women in a small farm.
Film review: H is for Hawk (plus ticket giveaway)
Helen MacDonald’s famous memoir about grief and hawking finally gets an adaption with Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson.
Film review: Franz
Agnieszka Holland’s biopic of Frank Kafka admits that the quest to understand is an exercise in futility, but that doesn’t stop her trying.
Film review: Mother Mary, A Private Life (plus SFF ticket giveaway)
Anne Hathway stars as a pop superstar trying to reclaim her identity surrounded by dehumanising fame. And Jodie Foster is a psychiatrist investigating the death…
Film review: The Sheep Detectives
The surprise of the year, this whodunnit with talking animals and starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson has little to complain about except how charming…
Film review: Wolfram (plus ticket giveaway)
Warwick Thornton’s sequel to Sweet Country continues to explore the Australian outback between World Wars through an essential First Nations point of view.
Film review: Michael, Alphabet Lane
Michael 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,…
Film review: The Stranger
For the first time, a French filmmaker adapts Albert Camus’ loved and complex novel The Stranger.
Film review: Father Mother Sister Brother, The President’s Cake
Jim 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…