Reviews

This was previously reviewed on 22/05/17 as part of Cannes Film Festival. Austere, 75-year-old auteur Michael Haneke might not seem the most obvious choice to comment on the current landscape of live...

Imagine a film no one really wanted, fronted by an enigmatic auteur with a questionable past whose name is all over the credits as producer, director, lead star, etc. A match made in heaven (or San Francisco),...

Originally a multi-screen installation for exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Manifesto belongs more to Cate Blanchett than to director Julian Rosefeldt. Split into thirteen segments,...

There's a recurring theme in the stream of sequels we’re seeing this Christmas season; obnoxious parents, whiney kids, and a penchant to portray pseudo-sentimental family matters. Daddy’s Home 2 is no...

This was first reviewed on 16/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Despite its proficiency in inspiring emotion, Jane can at points feel like it’s a little lacking in depth. There are countless details...

This was first reviewed on 06/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. The kids who roam Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn are known as "beach rats". Self-medicating with a cocktail of painkillers and narcotics, they...

It may have been produced on a shoestring budget and be predominantly improv-based, but Brakes offers up one hell of a cast. Julian Barratt, Paul McGann, Julia Davis, Kerry Fox and Noel Fielding all star in...

This was previously reviewed on 07/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Many have heard of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, marketed as ‘The Battle of the Sexes’, but...

At long last, DC's second ensemble stab at an extended universe movie is here! As our writer Joni wrote in his review, "The DC Extended Universe has taken quite a beating", critically and commercially, on...

This was first published on 22/09/17 as part of London Film Festival. Taking some of those slightly stalkerish tendencies that we all give into every now and then (yeah, I know every outfit you wore on your...

In 1981, following a good few years in the showbiz wilderness, Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame (inhabited here by an electric Annette Bening) finds herself backstage prepping for a stage production, far...

Wholly unrelenting and uncensored, Hungarian writer-director Arpad Sopsits’ Strangled (A Martfüi Rém, in its native translation) is a true crime neo-noir that rarely lets up. Strangled effectively...

Not a jump down the rabbit hole as much as a squeeze through the other end of the telescope, Good Time is when the bass drops at 3am and you can’t remember your own name. Josh and Benny Safdie use every...

"It’s not about the hits you take, it’s about how you get back up.” - Muhammad Ali The DC Extended Universe has taken quite a beating on its way to Justice League. A commercial failure here, a false...

This was previously reviewed on 18/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women ensures you’ll never look at Wonder Woman the same way again. Not only was she ahead of her...