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Ebony & Ivory (2024) Steve Newall OK, you’re either going to be on the wavelength of this absurd-as-absurd-can-be comedy or you really, really will not (I loved every second of it).
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Steve Newall You’ve probably never seen a video game adaptation that replicates the experience and frustration of gaming quite like this.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Lurker (2025) Steve Newall Could have come to an abrupt stop and satisfied as a character study, but finds a final act to lurk longer in your post-movie recollections.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Pavements (2024) Steve Newall Alex Ross Perry utterly nails an unconventional approach that sits perfectly with the band’s aesthetic - and in particular, truculent contrarian (and sometimes savage) frontman Stephen Malkmus. Pavements layers fact and fiction wonderfully.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Steve Newall Seen as big and loud as possible, it stuns eyes, rattles ears and shakes nerves. Superb.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Weed Eaters (2025) Steve Newall Loved it, loved it, loved it. I went into The Weed Eaters hoping for early-era Peter Jackson resource-stretching, dryballs Aotearoa humour and genre gross-out appreciation, and while it’s not as excessively gory as PJ, the pic paid off in spades.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Fixed (2025) Liam Maguren Tartakovsky’s more interested in showing the sides of these animals we try to ignore.
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Weapons (2025) Tony Stamp Weapons might just be a masterpiece. We’ll know once the dust settles and history has had its say, but walking out of the theatre, mind racing, feeling more cinematically satisfied than I had in a while, it certainly felt that way.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Bad Lieutenant (1992) Matt Glasby This time, I’m glad to say I made it all the way through, and was (un)pleasantly surprised. It’s still a punishing watch - and flawed as hell - but closer to art than exploitation.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Sketch (2024) Liam Maguren Without suited execs and random focus groups sanding off the rugged edges central to its themes, Sketch feels uncompromised in its vision and genuine in its intent.
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Splitsville (2025) Amelia Berry Now, finally, somebody has synthesised the yin and yang of Millennial cinema. The dick jokes AND the indie pop ennui, together at last.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Cat Woods This movie could be a savage, gory (and it is very gory) fantasy world of monsters, wild men, and gold-hearted women, but it is so much more emotional, intelligent and beautiful
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Familiar Touch (2024) Liam Maguren Don’t expect Familiar Touch to jump on a soapbox and monologue about health discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots. It simply isn’t that kind of film.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Being Eddie (2025) Clarisse Loughrey "At the root of it all, I love myself," is Murphy’s conclusion. That’s one of the most beautifully refreshing things I’ve heard a celebrity say of themselves of late.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Amelia Berry It’s almost astonishing that Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out Mystery, totally eschews the flashy genre switch-ups and narrative tricks that seem so core to the first two films.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Liam Maguren Once you’ve settled into the nostalgia of it all with its prominent film grain, classic score, and swingin’ sixties production, the film contorts those comfy memories with an accelerating descent into cinematic madness.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Steve Newall Like the characters in A House of Dynamite, we are left guessing about a lot as the credits roll. That doesn’t dilute the film’s impact, or the anxiety of its repeating 18-minute launch window.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Bump: A Christmas Film (2025) Stephen A. Russell So what if Bump: A Christmas Film came back so soon? Ideal end-of-year comfort viewing, the special is a gorgeous distillation of everything we love about this chaotic clan.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Luke Buckmaster This is a beautiful film, emotionally and aesthetically—a complex, melancholic kind of beauty.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Play Dirty (2025) Luke Buckmaster Play Dirty has pluck, sass, and grunt; it’s exactly what you want from a Shane Black movie.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Rory Doherty Superman says too much and not enough about its character and the heightened world he finds himself in, and we’re left with a film that’s eager to please but, like Gunn’s version of the hero, nakedly flawed.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Death of an Undertaker (2025) Stephen A. Russell Set in a Leichhardt funeral parlour and predominantly casting real-life undertakers, this gleaming tribute to life, death and everything in between ... [is] the boldly experimental filmmaking we need much more of in Australia.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) Stephen A. Russell Drawing on the visionary writer’s diary, it deftly weaves his prophetic warning about the insidious creep of fascism in the face of lazy apathy with the stark reality of where we are now in ways that will haunt you.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Stephen A. Russell A magical realist-tinged tribute to tender Black masculinity, it’s similarly emotionally discombobulating as All of Us Strangers.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Stephen A. Russell Writer/director Hasan Hadi’s beautifully judged debut feature is set during the inexorable crawl towards Saddam Hussein’s toppling by the US government that once supported him ... Deceptively simple, there are multitudes just below the surface.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Sorry, Baby (2025) Stephen A. Russell Eva Victor writes, acts and directs the hell out of her debut feature, playing Agnes, an emotionally bruised but surviving academic ... Along the way, it will wound you in the feels and then scoop you up in its gentle embrace.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2024) Stephen A. Russell Sinéad O’Shea’s bracing documentary honours the Irish writer whose novels unashamedly embraced sexuality in a way that was okay for James Joyce but scandalous for her ... O'Brien gets the last laugh.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Stephen A. Russell Cherien Dabis’ gut-punch film ... a monument to resilience in the face of unimaginable intergenerational trauma, it honours the lives behind uncaring headlines in the West, detailing how love remains even in the darkest, forsaken places.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Stephen A. Russell Encountering psychotropic snails along the way, it’s a trip.
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The Secret Agent (2025) Stephen A. Russell Drawing on everything from Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion monster movies to mobster epics by way of political thrillers, its glowing core is a Tales of the City-like found family.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Lurker (2025) Stephen A. Russell In Alex Rusell’s incendiary debut feature set on the outskirts of LA’s music scene, French-Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin makes a startling impression... Bedlam ensues in a freakishly twisted dance.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Stephen A. Russell When you watch as many movies as I do, it’s exceedingly rare to be so utterly flabbergasted by where a story goes ... a wildly unmissable ride full of hilarity, heart and haaargghs!
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Stephen A. Russell Josh O’Connor is marvellously hapless as an art thief without a clue ... But the heist, as fun as it is, is just a pretext to follow this lost soul cast adrift in a beautifully shot film that thrums with ‘70s spirit.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Stephen A. Russell Heroic Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest is his most devastatingly personal yet ... Painting an engrossing morality play ... it's a story that burns with fury, doubt, despair, hope and possible forgiveness.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Stephen A. Russell Capital letters CINEMA, you literally feel Spanish-French filmmaker Óliver Laxe’s Moroccan desert-set epic in your bones. By far my favourite Sydney Film Festival experience this year.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Alpha (2025) Rory Doherty There’s the sense that Alpha and Ducournau end up in similar positions: we do not know how the past will hold onto us, how it will affect how we see those around us, and attempts to excavate it will be messy, arduous, and vulnerable.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Rory Doherty At times our confidence is shaken, but The Phoenician Scheme reaffirms the joy of discovering something tiny and human tucked away in Anderson’s dollhouse.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Tony Stamp Stands above most other recent blockbusters thanks to McQuarrie’s visual wit and his star’s abundant charisma. Cruise is still endlessly engaging, but again you feel the pair working hard - perhaps too hard - to keep us engaged.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Rory Doherty To Aster, whose prior film Beau is Afraid was an frustrating odyssey of Freudian paranoia, emasculation is a crucial key to decoding the world’s violence and misery, and in Eddington, he pursues it to the point of self-sabotage.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) David Michael Brown An audacious, ultra-violent, foot-tapping, high-kicking historical horror with two teeth in its neck and a twist in its tail.
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
You're Cordially Invited (2025) Dominic Corry There’s nothing revolutionary happening in You’re Cordially Invited, but by feeling like something Dan Ackroyd and Goldie Hawn might’ve starred in in 1987, it brings back a welcome large scale frivolity to the mainstream comedy movie. More please.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Order (2024) Steve Newall Thinking about how these events of forty years ago have continued to ripple through the US - and into the White House in 2025 - lends The Order a chilling quality.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Liam Maguren At its most brilliant, Ross’s visual approach solidifies Nickel Boys’ most profound reminder: all these boys’ experiences, memories, and lives mattered.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Rory Doherty The most exciting film of the year so far. Black Bag reels you in with simmering, ill-behaved characters and tightly-wound thriller mechanics.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Cat Woods What is undeniable is how vital Reijn’s movie is in enforcing a woman’s perspective in all its contradictory, confounding nuances.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Rory Doherty Like King’s short stories, there’s a freedom to The Monkey; it’s unshackled from the writer’s legacy but playfully opening itself up to his extremes of humour and depravity.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Rory Doherty Somewhere between the stuttering narrative momentum and the project’s massive scale and resources (budgeted around $118 million), the focus and clarity of how Bong diagnoses social and political malaise has been compromised.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) Tony Stamp Lithgow demolishes the role, sporting gnarled fake teeth, eerie blue contacts, and an impressive New Zealand accent (often channeled through a hideous eyeless puppet, the Jenny Pen of the title).
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Liam Maguren Watching The Seed of the Sacred Fig feels more like a revolt where the simple act of watching it amplifies its purpose: to spread both awareness and the feeling of a grand injustice.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A Working Man (2025) Rory Doherty Maybe the missed opportunities of A Working Man would be less egregious if the director and star hadn’t just made a film about a beekeeping assassin.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
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