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The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “There’s plenty of suspense here, but also a strong strain of gallows humour running through the serpentine storyline as if to pay tribute to the benefits of absurdism as a survival strategy, and Mendonça Filho has done a great job evoking the 1970s.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a wild ride during which you’re not even tempted to wonder if there’s a man in the monkey suit.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 21, 2026 Full Review David (2025) 76% 3/5 EDIT “The film’s strengths are in the vitality of its animation and the beauty of its settings. ...Its flaws lie in its evangelical moments which sit oddly with its Disneyfied tone but that doesn’t seem to be deterring audiences.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The film’s storyline is more straightforward than the book’s and its main points are spelt out more emphatically but if the plot loses some of its delicacy on screen, the impact of its ending makes up for it.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Bristling with energy and ambition, [Sydney Sweeney's] Christy is an appealingly indomitable figure with a sharp sense of humour. You’re with her all the way as she finally gets back in touch with her urge to survive.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Rather than being sentimental, it’s a fundamentally good-natured film, paying homage, as Brewer says, to those who find their niche as entertainers beloved by those audiences who get the chance to find them and see what they can do. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s a sweet film with a touching ending and Fraser, with his wide-eyed looks and well-meaning air, is perfect casting but Hikari’s direction is a little too leisurely. It strips out the tension and the film doesn’t work quite as well as it deserves to.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The story shapes up as a meditation on the sentimental value of art itself. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 3/5 EDIT “Gormican is relying much too much on the nostalgia vote. At the risk of spoiling the party, I confess to finding the whole thing underdone.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “With a story as intrinsically weird as this one, there is only one way to go: Make it big. And as usual, Cameron doesn’t disappoint. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “...the film is a memorable addition to the canon but its extreme enthusiasm for bloodletting and its grisly aftermath mark it as being strictly for the converted.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 3/5 EDIT “There’s a lot of talent at work and Brooks has a story with plenty of satirical potential in Ella’s adventures as an idealist... But [Brooks] never shows much sign of wanting to get to grips with it.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film has only one flaw worth worrying about – but it’s a big one, almost derailing the whole narrative. It’s the casting of Malek.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s a little too serpentine, spun out with so many twists that the film seems longer than it should, but retains enough of the charms that made the original such a hit to please the fans. ” – The Age (Australia) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “...Thompson emerges from the surrounding mayhem with a performance both credible and touching. It has no unnecessary flourishes and she and the landscape collaborate to compelling effect.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3.5/5 EDIT “No doubt the fans will thrill to the music all over again, but the impact is lost when every song seems to be straining to be a showstopper.” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 3/5 EDIT “...it took a gang of [writers] to whip the script into its final form and the dialogue still lacks the necessary spark. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 14, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “Bronstein puts you on an unnerving and slightly mystifying rollercoaster ride which has you gasping for air, but she has certainly served Byrne well. It’s the role of a lifetime and Byrne embraces it with everything she’s got.” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3.5/5 EDIT “[Jennifer Lawrence gives a heartfelt and inventive performance, infused with a dangerous and sardonic air of unpredictability. Without its many colours, the film could have degenerated into one long whinge.” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Shell (2024) 63% 2/5 EDIT “At its best, it’s quite funny. At its worst, it’s mildly disgusting, with Moss suffering its most egregious indignities, but Minghella does recover his wit in time to bring Zoe’s role in the mess to a fitting finish. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “It’s as if Lanthimos tossed violence, shock, absurdity and silliness into a blender, waiting to see which came out on top. In the end, the froth wins and silliness prevails.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 29, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 2/5 EDIT “The film is billed as a tragi-comedy but the tonal shifts don’t really work. For farce, you need bustle, panic and exaggeration, and they don’t suit Reichardt’s style.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Regretting You (2025) 29% 2/5 EDIT “Some of it is moderately funny -- intentionally, I think, although it’s hard to tell -- but the dialogue is so trite and the pace so ponderous that any sense of surprise evaporates in the first half-hour.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Despite the concept’s inherent nastiness, the film has been well put together.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 16, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 3.5/5 EDIT “...Roberts makes Alma’s unravelling so compelling that it effectively outweighs the effects of Guadagnino’s excessively mannered direction and the script’s acute case of psychological overload.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 16, 2025 Full Review
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