Melbourne International Film Festival News, Reviews & Interviews

We don’t deserve Pedro Almodovar; thank God he disagrees

Growing older is hard, growing up is harder

"I love Dublin so much, we got to really fall in love with Dublin"

It’s rare that a film with such efficient storytelling could flounder for nearly two hours

That which we do garner from these intimate portraits in their depiction of that so affecting our subjects' lives is moving and, due in no small part to each of the leads’ willingness to share and be so open, roundly impacting

PJ Harvey wasn’t up for recording a regular album, so she took it on the road

A near-futurist neon-dystopian theological Brazilian sex-sci-fi isn’t what you’d normally come across at the cinema

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

Sometimes abstract just doesn’t work

This author has only ever seen one film twice during a single Festival run. That was Bodied

It’s rare you see something so powerful emerge from that so inscrutable

Packing more furrowed-brow acting into a film than you are ever likely to see, The Guilty is a reliably mood-driven Danish thriller

As curious as it is frequently infuriating, Three Identical Strangers takes its fascinating subject(s) to altogether captivating places.

Nicolas Cage: The Movie is here. That’s right, internet; you spoke, and the film Gods heard you