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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
Supernova (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

Macqueen's script smartly identifies that it's as much Tusker looking after Sam as the other way around. It's one of the relatable truths in a film full of them.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
2
4/5
Sweat (2020)

Huw Oliver

Through it all, Koleśnik gives a remarkable performance that nails the public/private schism at the heart of Instagram celebrity.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
3
4/5
The Reason I Jump (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

The Reason I Jump captures that idea in an unpatronising, optimistic way, while giving neurotypical people a preconception-busting wake-up call.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
4
3/5
Luca (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

What Luca most conspicuously lacks is Pixar's penchant for throwing up a big tent for all ages. There's less for grown-ups in the studio's youngest-skewing effort since the Cars franchise.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
5
Harry & Son (1984)

David Pirie

The result is a curiously indigestible phenomenon, like being forced to eat five courses of avocado by an overbearing dinner-party host.
Posted Jun 1, 2021
6
2/5
Nobody (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

This film is just angry, a deadening thud of pointless nihilism that actually seems to celebrate saving a marriage through mass murder.
Posted May 27, 2021
7
2/5
Voyagers (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

Voyagers is not a film blessed with subtlety, especially not when it comes to laughable wild animal montages when the kids go, err, wild
Posted May 27, 2021
8
3/5
Mortal Kombat (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

Leaning all into a foul-mouthed Aussie stereotype, [Josh Lawson] makes Hugh Jackman's Wolverine seem terribly polite.
Posted May 27, 2021
9
4/5
My Name Is Gulpilil (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

An intimate journey though his career and his personal life, into his dreams and fears, it's astoundingly generous.
Posted May 27, 2021
10
3/5
Cruella (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

Like Cruella's occasionally piebald hair, it's very much a movie of two halves: fun to look at, if a little fleeting.
Posted May 26, 2021
11
4/5
In the Heights (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

There is so much musicality to the everyday here that it makes perfect sense when a hundred or so people break into a choreographed street dance for no obvious reason.
Posted May 26, 2021
12
Target (1985)

Geoff Andrew

An uneven film, to be sure, but far more ambitious and intelligent than most spy thrillers.
Posted May 26, 2021
13
5/5
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Keith Uhlich

Dry eyes are not an option for this 1937 Depression-era masterpiece.
Posted May 20, 2021
14
The Power and the Glory (1933)

Trevor Johnston

Tracy, previously a villainous supporting player, grabbed his first lead and never looked back, but the movie as a whole is more significant for its place in the history books than as a living, breathing, viewing experience.
Posted May 13, 2021
15
2/5
Army Of The Dead (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

Army of the Dead resembles nothing so much as a watered-down Aliens with slot machines.
Posted May 11, 2021
16
3/5
Rembrandt's J'Accuse (2008)

David Fear

[Greenaway] once studied to become a painter himself; apparently, he's harbored dreams of being an amateur sleuth as well.
Posted Apr 20, 2021
17
Un homme est mort (A Man Is Dead), (Funerale a Los Angeles) (The Outside Man) (1972)

Tom Milne

Perfect casting for Trintignant as a French hitman imported to America and efficiently executing his contract, only to discover that there appears to be a contract out on him.
Posted Apr 16, 2021
18
3/5
Home (2009)

Keith Uhlich

Terrific performances and superb cinematography lift cowriter-director Ursula Meier's feature debut above its thuddingly metaphorical premise.
Posted Mar 25, 2021
19
2/5
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

It's all a bit #ReleaseTheDeletedScenes.
Posted Mar 15, 2021
20
3/5
Blue Story (2020)

Greer McNally

It's a vital story about contemporary London.
Posted Feb 24, 2021
21
3/5
The Nest (2020)

Zachary Shevich

As he proved with 'Martha Marcy May Marlene', Durkin is a master of tone, and 'The Nest' is another finely calibrated mood piece.
Posted Feb 21, 2021
22
4/5
Ordinary Love (2020)

Joseph Walsh

Don't expect dramatic fireworks - very little happens narratively - but prepare for this quiet film to tiptoe into your heart.
Posted Feb 20, 2021
23
5/5
Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

It's a living record of a found family that has striven to build a better Australia for First Peoples, a film that places culture at the heart of our national story.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
24
4/5
Swallow (2020)

Greer McNally

This is Bennett's show... It's a role you can imagine a young Isabelle Huppert playing, and there's no higher praise than that.
Posted Feb 17, 2021
25
2/5
Kajillionaire (2020)

Kate Lloyd

Kajillionaire takes a heartbreaking story - a child of abuse trying to escape her sociopathic parents - and bloats it so full of Little Miss Sunshine kook that any emotional sharpness is left soft and doughy.
Posted Feb 15, 2021
26
5/5
Saint Maud (2020)

Philip De Semlyen

I've seen Saint Maud twice and each time it found new ways to freak me out. Take the leap of faith.
Posted Feb 14, 2021
27
Babes in Arms (1939)

Tom Milne

First of the Garland-Rooney musicals, clothing a tired plot with much charm, energy and, mercifully, no Busby Berkeley chorine patterns.
Posted Feb 12, 2021
28
4/5
White Riot (2019)

Chris Waywell

'White Riot' uses archive footage and stills brilliantly. It dispenses with expositional voiceover and clocks in at a lean 80 mins. But all of that pales beside its central message.
Posted Feb 12, 2021
29
3.5/5
Another Round (Druk) (2020)

Stephen A. Russell

There's a louche '70s swagger to the film, as it follows this tightening band of brothers' increasingly erratic behaviour non-judgementally. The tragicomic tracing of male fragility is fascinating.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
30
3/5
Totally Under Control (2020)

Zach Long

A timely and competent first chapter, but it's only a fragment of a story that's still being written.
Posted Feb 7, 2021
31
2/5
Malcolm & Marie (2020)

Philip De Semlyen

There's a tonne of interesting questions raised but you're too numbed to absorb them.
Posted Feb 5, 2021
32
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Time Out Staff

Aiming for the stars, the film hits a magazine spread by Norman Rockwell, and obstinately stays there: a respectable enough achievement in its way, but one that ultimately dims the mind as it stirs up the emotions.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
33
4/5
Simple Passion (2020)

Huw Oliver

Laetitia Dosch is subtle and exquisite as a divorced Parisian lost in infatuation.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
34
3/5
Rams (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

Deadpan Aussie dramatic comedy is a good stand-in for Icelandic quirk in this likeable remake.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
35
3/5
Greenland (2020)

Philip De Semlyen

Gerard Butler finally faces an adversary he can't punch.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
36
5/5
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

Dave Calhoun

Politics, music, fashion, history, religion - this is one of those super-smart cultural documentaries that has entry points from all sides.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
37
5/5
Passing (2021)

Dave Calhoun

Rebecca Hall's wonderful, poetic debut sticks close to Nella Larsen's story, never offering easy answers or a neat resolution.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
38
3/5
CODA (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

It's likeable but very familiar.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
39
3/5
In The Earth (2021)

Dave Calhoun

It's a jab of timely anxiety, destined to be a freakout midnight movie when cinemas finally reopen.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
40
1/5
Twist (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

This poor Oliver Twist update needs to be artfully dodged.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
41
4/5
Flee (2020)

Philip De Semlyen

This gut-punch adult animation is a worthy heir to Waltz with Bashir.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
42
4/5
Censor (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

Censor wears its genre influences on its sleeve, but it's very much its own thing.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
43
3/5
Earwig and the Witch (2021)

Nick Dent

It sacrifices Studio Ghibli's hand-drawn style but it's the absence of the studio's usual emotional beats that's the bigger problem.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
44
4/5
The Sparks Brothers (2021)

Dave Calhoun

Edgar Wright's sheer enthusiasm means that the two and half hours doesn't feel excessive at all: he powers chronologically through a pop survival story that has you wanting to punch the air
Posted Feb 4, 2021
45
Misha and the Wolves (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

A detective story-cum-meta-narrative full of trapdoors, it's a film to tiptoe through carefully.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
46
4/5
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

Daniel Kaluuya provides a towering: all coiled power, oratorical savvy and meticulously-researched authenticity.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
47
3/5
Pinocchio (2020)

Joseph Walsh

The result is a bizarre fairytale extravaganza, and Garonne should be credited for the thoughtful way he has brought his vision to life.
Posted Feb 3, 2021
48
4/5
High Ground (2021)

Stephen A. Russell

High Ground doesn't quite have the epic sweep of Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country, nor the white hot fury of say Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale, but is nonetheless a powerful indictment on a past Australia has yet to reconcile as a nation.
Posted Jan 31, 2021
49
3/5
Occupation: Rainfall (2021)

Nick Dent

Sometimes even cheesy movies can be a perfect distillation of the zeitgeist.
Posted Jan 28, 2021
50
3/5
The Dig (2021)

Philip De Semlyen

The kind of real-life period story that seems tailor made for your gran, with its cast of dependable British thesps, summery vistas and scenes of people offering each other barley water.
Posted Jan 28, 2021