Penguin Bloom Review - A Well-Meaning Mess
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. 2021 is already proving to be a landmark year for Australian film, with Robert Connolly’s The Dry and Glendyn Ivin’…
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The Dry Review - A Towering Achievement, A Damning Condemnation of Morrison's Australia
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Robert Connolly’s masterwork thriller, The Dry, transfers Jane Harper’s best-selling novel to the silver screen wit…
In the Shadow of 2020 - A Review Round-Up of the Close of a Year
2020 was one of the most significant years in modern cinematic history. Not because of an overwhelming wealth of great films, but because of the insane upheaval of how films were marketed, released an…
Promising Young Woman Review - A Provocative and Moving Film Steeped in Social Commentary
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. This review contains discussions of sexual assault and abuse. It might be cliché to say, but some movies just rock…
The Magician Review - The Path to Criminal Infamy is Through a Video Camera and Violence
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On January 6th 2021, Jacob Angeli partook in an act that would confirm his place in the culture of memes. With the…
Chunderstruck: Les Patterson Saves the World
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. For the 2016 Archibald Prize competition — awarding the best portrait paintings in Australia — the top honour was gi…
A Call to Spy Review - A Wonderful Example of the Spy-Genre
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Continuing the trend of notably female-led films comes a story taking place during early WWII. A Call to Spy (a var…
Love Opera Review - A Grand Soaring Song for Equality in the Arts
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Going into Liselle Mei’s superb documentary Love Opera, I was, admittedly, ignorant about the art form of opera, with my exposure being mo…
Sound of Metal Review - A Sensitive and Quietly Affecting Film You Will Not Forget
Powered by JustWatch Sound of Metal is directed and co-written by Darius Marder, whose previous work included directing the 2008 documentary Loot and writing The Place Beyond the Pines. Here, Ri…
The Furnace Review - A Long Subdued Journey into the Golden Unknown
This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut, The Furnace, the imagery of a white-gowned choir of kids across the landscape…
The Xrossing Review - Impressive Microbudget Indie Amplifies Tension in the Perth Suburbs
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
100% Wolf Review – A Howling Great Time of an Aussie Animation Treat
Powered by JustWatch From Photon Creative’s fauna-focused series, Tales from Sanctuary City, to the iconic Emmy award winning series Bluey, there’s been a steady increase in the amount of Austra…