Film review: The Stranger
For the first time, a French filmmaker adapts Albert Camus’ loved and complex novel The Stranger.
Film review: Bonnard, Pierre & Marthe
Cécile de France does her best to elevate Martin Provost’s outdated biopic of the famous French painter.
Film review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Thirty-six years later, Tim Burton returns to the world he’s all too familiar with, in a bid to re-ignite his career.
Film review: I Saw The TV Glow
Boasting beautiful visuals between dreamscapes and nightmares, I Saw the TV Glow is a stimulating and emotional experience.
Film review: Blink Twice
Zoë Kravitz’ directorial debut is intense, stylish, lurid, but a missed opportunity for much more complex subject.
Film review – Alien: Romulus
On its seventh instalment, the Alien franchise looks back at its origins with mixed results but an ending so cathartic it makes up for its…
Film review: It Ends With Us
Blake Lively stars in this long-awaited Colleen Hoover adaptation that delivers the expected soapy melodrama fans of the author want, and not much for everyone…
Film of the week: The Fall Guy
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a love letter to the stunt professionals of Hollywood. Shot in Sydney’s CBD, it offers little beyond impressive…
Film of the week: Evil Does Not Exist
The Japanese director behind 2021’s Drive My Car delivers a beautiful and contemplative eco-drama that ends with one of this year’s most harrowingly haunting endings.
Films of the week: Civil War, Robot Dreams
Alex Garland divides opinions, and America, in a nihilistic war fantasy. And the surprise Spanish animated Robot Dreams is a charming piece that both breaks and…
Films of the week: Monkey Man, Origin
This week, an action film and a serious drama about the nature of institutionalised racism. One set to be a modern classic, the other no…