Polite Society Review - Sundance Film Festival
Writer and director Nida Manzoor broke out with her hit television show We Are Lady Parts that followed a bunch of British Muslim girls who formed a punk band. Manzoor’s debut feature Polite Society c…
Nadine Whitney is a Rotten Tomatoes accredited critic, the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, a member of OFCS, GALECA, AWFJ, and an occasional festival judge. She often wishes she was a spoiled cat.
Writer and director Nida Manzoor broke out with her hit television show We Are Lady Parts that followed a bunch of British Muslim girls who formed a punk band. Manzoor’s debut feature Polite Society c…
Powered by JustWatch Divisive director Darren Aronofsky sometimes wants you to have a bad time at the cinema because of the subject matter: Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, and The Wrestler. Som…
Edson Oda’s feature debut Nine Days asks what it is to live. The answer is complex and beyond most of us, and to an extent it is beyond Oda himself, so he has crafted an intimate drama about the great…
The sophomore directorial effort from Harry Macqueen proves that sometimes the greatest success a film can have is in its casting of the lead roles. Supernova pairs the veteran actors Colin Firth and…
Just as the American West has served as the perfect translocation for remakes of Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai films, London in 1953 is exactly the right setting for a remake of the director’s satire on bu…
James Gray’s autobiographical film Armageddon Time refuses to indulge in nostalgia and takes off any rose-tinted glasses to tell the story of a the eleven-year-old Paul Graff waking up to the reality…
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King is a stellar historical epic, but like the historical epics that inspired the director such as Braveheart, Gladiator, and The Last of the Mohicans it must be not…
It seems almost unfair to review Zach Cregger’s berserk horror film Barbarian because it really is best experienced going into it knowing nothing. Cregger is best known for his comedic work including…
Muru in Te reo Māori means a punishment or redress against the Māori community. Director Tearepa Kahi’s film does not use the title lightly, in fact the title is meant to be as incendiary as the piece…
“I'm always drawn to the people that don't neatly fit into the conventional shit that's all around, the system.” – Ana Lily Armipour. Ana Lily Armipour has drawn on her own interstitial e…
Danish director Christoffer Boe’s film A Taste of Hunger begins with a quote by literary provocateur Kathy Acker; “If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” The quote is both decep…
Sue Thomson’s eye-opening documentary Under Cover presents the plight of the largest growing cohort of homeless people in Australia; women over the age of 50. It gives the audience access to the lives…