Crime Wave
A comedy of awful errors and even worse people, Crime Wave stumbles sparingly and when it finds it’s feet it lands
Free Solo
Very few films are ground-breaking in a visual, technical or narrative sense. To manage all three is a rare achievement, though not nearly so remarkable as Alex Honnold
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
It took decades to get this film to theatres; the finished product, as much as Terry Gilliam’s perseverance, is as strong a reminder as any of why we watch movies, and always will
Wild Nights With Emily
Recounting lesser-known events and their reasons for obscurity in the life of Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon), Wild Nights With Emily takes a few less than conventional approaches
ARCTIC
Sometimes abstract just doesn’t work
You Were Never Really Here
All the pieces did well to come together for this one
The Kindergarten Teacher
Blocking. It doesn’t get talked about much, but it’s very important – and Sara Colangelo knows what she’s doing
Piercing
Putting us on a pile of rugs and ripping them all away, Piercing is having no go of the expected
Winda Sets Sights on 2019
Winda, Australia's only Film Festival dedicated to Indigenous cinema, wrapped its third annual and biggest run in Sydney
Bodied
This author has only ever seen one film twice during a single Festival run. That was Bodied