Reviews

While We’re Young is a natural progression from Baumbach’s Frances Ha, yet it breaks new ground by using older protagonists to provide a fresh perspective on twentysomething New Yorkers. Meanwhile, it...

Sleekly sensual montages and a wonderfully hypnotic soundtrack set the tone for this stylish documentary. Meanwhile, thoughtful structure and fantastic tempo provide the foundation for an expertly filmed and...

Tab Hunter Confidential is a fascinating and comprehensive biography that successfully conveys Hunter’s golden-boy status and subsequent career. Through its logical structure, rare film clips and...

The Water Diviner is a poignant, beautiful and captivating film, showing the ongoing ravages on both sides after WW1’s Gallipoli campaign. The extraordinary courage needed from a man who lost everything...

Get Hard awkwardly stumbles through attempts at finding humour in racial and sexual differences. Allegations of xeno/homophobia could be partially diffused by comedic context, but this comedy clearly needs to...

“The undeniable pleasure of losing control.” Damián Szifron’s brief description of the underlying ethos behind Wild Tales’ irrefutable catharsis perfectly demonstrates the mellifluous nature of his...

Stories of Our Lives is filmed in stunning black and white. It is a well-constructed display of thoughtful editing and eloquent cinematography. Yet this brave and intimate film is more than just...

It would be difficult to find a more earnest film than Blackbird, which is forthright, incisive and often heart-meltingly sweet. It is precisely this earnestness that holds our interest during the...

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Tiger Orange combines able execution with an enticing story to make a gentle and romantic film. Chet’s shy reticence contrasts vividly with Todd’s promiscuity, creating a shrewd central fraternal...

What starts as a road trip soon turns into something much less laid-back and much more mystifying in William Eubank’s enigmatic sci-fi. Rising star Brenton Thwaites offers a solid performance, as do...

Do I Sound Gay? is an open, interesting and amusing documentary that, frustratingly, only skims the surface of the questions it provokes. This fleeting and slightly unsubstantial quality is compounded by...

The ambition of Sri Lanka’s first LGBT film is staggering; it is no wonder that Frangipani is occasionally overpowered. The film’s complexity is regrettably controverted by an underdeveloped,...

Just when Liam Neeson looked to become the genre’s leading man, the leather-faced Sean Penn wants a piece of the revenge-action pie, here starring as former hitman-with-a-heart Jim Terrier. The crux of...

The teen dystopian book adaptation trend continues with a vengeance in Insurgent. This tricky middle tome of the Divergent series, where (seemingly) lots happens with an impressive crash, bang and wallop on...