Supergirl will give you bad movie fatigue
After James Gunn’s energetic but disposable Superman in 2025, I was looking forward to catching a superhero sidequel that featured a character who doesn’t have decades of cinematic history behind them…
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Milly Alcock tries her best to salvage the super generic Supergirl
Milly Alcock is the sole bright spot in the derivative adventure, propping up a script that does little to serve her or the titular character.…
Visar Morina on his devastating Kosovar drama Shame and Money
My biggest challenge was to create a shift. To start with a social environment, and basically to examine what it does to the people offering themselves every day and being treated like they are treated.…
Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus
The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…
“Australia. Find out who you are, and you’ll know how to love somebody else.” - Asian-Australian Memories of Film, Identity and Belonging
In 1983 Hungarian-Australian director Carl Schultz adapted Sumner Locke Elliott’s award-winning novel Careful, He Might Hear You into a film Australia itself has largely forgotten. Set in Depression-e…
Pixar’s Toy Story 5 embraces familiar warmth to tackle childhood in the digital age
Toy Story 5 feels like a natural next step for a franchise that has proved its relevance for over three decades.…
Tony Kaye’s documentary on his legendary battle with Hollywood is wildly engrossing
Tony Kaye’s documentary is a vivid portrait of a man so over his head that he’s become more than a little mad.…
Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…
Leo Woodall earns his leading man credentials in Daniel Roher’s engrossing Tuner
The highly enjoyable and entertaining Tuner upends a lot of expectations and zigs where many other films would zag, keeping the momentum from sagging.…
Recluse is an unsettling and uneasy journey into the modern uncanny
A contemporary Gothic horror where the aspect of dread permeates both the house and the people who spend time there.…
Jaume Claret Muxart journeys along the Danube in the beautiful, beguiling and bewildering Strange River
A story without answers, choosing seductive visual composition and familial convergence over the trappings of a traditional coming-of-age narrative.…
The North is a beautiful decree for digital detoxification
Bart Schrijver’s film The North begins with an earnest proclamation: ‘The trail is best enjoyed without your phone. Please turn it off.’…