Reviews

It’s far from unheard of that a film’s production or genesis is as if not more interesting than the finished product, but it’s rarely the case for so quality a picture

I's a strange thing to say that something is deceptively good

The Death of Dick Long is having none of your genre

Kursk doesn’t want you to remember the actual disaster too closely, just some of it’s fallout

Monsters are almost always metaphors for something. Many films forget this and just have something wreaking havoc, while others make it crystal clear.

If you see this film you will never forget the title

The 9th film by Quentin Tarantino was always going to be one of the most anticipated of 2019

Irreverent opening extravaganza of little relevance to main story – check

Imitated, parodied, celebrated, overrated… there’s a lot of views on the man immortalised as Inspector Clouseau

Let’s get this out of the way first; Booksmart is a good film

One rarely expects a film as good as ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ to come along and we are always glad when it does

A solid premise matters little when the execution can barely match it

In a Festival beset by unnecessary controversies and ill-considered depictions of violence, Dirty God showed us how well it can be done

There’s no better place for dry humour than the desert. Couldn’t resist

Possibly the only Sydney Film Festival title ever to feature a question mark

Hundreds of films screen every year at the Sydney Film Festival and you can’t always rely on the best one, or close to it, getting it’s dues

Everyone involved in this movie wants you to like it, so, so much

What a waste of everyone’s time. Us, the cast, Jim Jarmusch; everyone except Tilda Swinton who here made magic all on her lonesome

A film like this makes you wonder how it never got made up till now

Both bear uneasy depictions of violence, yet one resonates powerfully and with evident quality. The other, ill-considered in near every respect

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

The Apollo 11 mission might be one of the last things that might typically call for a suspense-ridden retelling. Thankfully, the filmmakers didn’t listen.

Earning the time to tell this story, The Lives of Others Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has triumphed again

Growing older is hard, growing up is harder

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

Are zombie movies experiencing a fatigue or a renaissance?

A British gun for hire, a wedding, a less than willing bride and a mysterious stranger. What could possibly go wrong?

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