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Mickey 17 (2025) Ky Stewart Despite all the bleakness, Mickey 17 ends on a hopeful note. Justice prevails.
Posted Mar 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Nick Bhasin So it's entirely possible that this movie felt like a letdown because the first two were decent and Tom Hardy is delightful but everybody involved just ran out of steam and gave up and decided to bum everybody out.
Posted Nov 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Transformers One (2024) Lia Kim I’m rolling with it.
Posted Nov 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Napoleon (2023) Nick Bhasin I mean, the movie was perplexing at points, but this reads like someone having an out-of-body experience...
Posted Jul 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Test Drive (2017) Jenna Guillaume All in all, the random, weird and wonderful parts add up to a sweet, charming, cozy Christmas romance that is exactly the kind of escape we all need.
Posted Jul 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Snowed Inn Christmas (2017) Jenna Guillaume All in all, the random, weird and wonderful parts add up to a sweet, charming, cozy Christmas romance that is exactly the kind of escape we all need.
Posted Mar 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Promising Young Woman (2020) Kristen Amiet Promising Young Woman makes all of your favourite people terrible, but it's precisely because nobody's laughing now that it's so hard to look away.
Posted Feb 18, 2021  Edit critic review
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Merryana Salem Birds of Prey is unapologetic, chockers with talent, and full of witty criticisms of misogyny...
Posted Feb 21, 2020  Edit critic review
Jenny Slate: Stage Fright (2019) Jared Richards Stage Fright calls on us to treat ourselves with respect, even when it feels like our world (personal, political, environmental) is crashing down.
Posted Nov 08, 2019  Edit critic review
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) Cameron Williams A slow burn epilogue that provides closure for Jesse Pinkman (if that's what you're after), and it's far from cheap fan service.
Posted Oct 15, 2019  Edit critic review
The Australian Dream (2019) Jared Richards It's a small victory, in the scheme of things, but one which would move the dial in a country where the very name of Australia is an act of dispossession, a branding over the many nations that were here before - that are still here.
Posted Aug 29, 2019  Edit critic review
Booksmart (2019) Claire White Booksmart makes up for its somewhat conventional plot with its original spin on the party film genre, updating and flipping old tropes on their heads.
Posted Aug 12, 2019  Edit critic review
The Nightingale (2018) Sam Langford The Nightingale raises important questions on this front, and it does the film a disservice to simply dismiss its violence as unnecessary without considering why it was included in the first place.
Posted Aug 09, 2019  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Cameron Williams Teen crushes, superhero succession plans and disappointing men. The MCU through a teenage lens is still a fun place to be.
Posted Jul 03, 2019  Edit critic review
Top End Wedding (2019) Amy Thunig Top End Wedding is uplifting, and offered me something I had not experienced before as a viewer in a mainstream theatre - the chance to see First Nations people, relationships, and culture presented from a position of strength and normality.
Posted Jun 28, 2019  Edit critic review
Yesterday (2019) Patrick Lenton If you love a simple, delightful, and gently funny love story in the vein of Notting Hill or even the cursed Love Actually, then you will genuinely enjoy Yesterday.
Posted Jun 28, 2019  Edit critic review
Avengers: Endgame (2019) Patrick Lenton What a film.
Posted Apr 25, 2019  Edit critic review
Us (2019) Joseph Earp Us has no clear answers as to how one might fix such inequality. It's a horror movie, and so like many horror movies, it positions the viewers emotionally closer to the victims than those committing acts of violence against them.
Posted Apr 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Boy Erased (2018) Jared Richards Ultimately, Boy Erased misses too many of its own revelations...
Posted Apr 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Hereditary (2018) Sam Langford Hereditary pushes the horror genre to a different extreme than the one we're used to, reminding us of the immense gulf between mere "scary" and "horrifying", and the result is like nothing you've ever seen.
Posted Apr 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Captain Marvel (2019) Maria Lewis The messaging doesn't need to be subtle to be important, and Captain Marvel wears its heart firmly on its sleeve.
Posted Apr 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Climax (2018) Jared Richards Describing a drug-fuelled film as a 'trip' is cliché, but Climax pulls off a rare feat.
Posted Apr 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) Jared Richards Velvet Buzzsaw's lost its buzz. How meta, how post-modern, how revolutionary!
Posted Apr 04, 2019  Edit critic review
The Dirt (2019) Cameron Williams Chooses to celebrate instead of interrogating what the band's excess says about the world and how they were able to get away with it that desperately tries certify the band's "legendary" status as survivors.
Posted Mar 26, 2019  Edit critic review
Gravity (2013) Tara Judah ...a very simplistic story against some incredible achievement in visual effects and filmmaking craft.
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Cameron Williams Proves the task of trying to define Queen may be impossible.
Posted Nov 01, 2018  Edit critic review
A Star Is Born (2018) Cameron Williams Prefers to focus on what great music should be - and how a music career should be run - rather than getting to the heart of what leads to someone to bare their soul through music
Posted Oct 19, 2018  Edit critic review
The Breadwinner (2017) Glenn Dunks ...a sort of Yentl in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, is evocative and was a little-discussed gem
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
The Boss Baby (2017) Glenn Dunks Has the best "where babies come from" gag in a while, too.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) Glenn Dunks And there's something to be said about a film that takes such wide-flared gambles with narrative and character.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Loving Vincent (2017) Glenn Dunks Still, sometimes you won't notice the bland dialogue or storytelling when getting lost within the swirling, colourful frames.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
All the Money in the World (2017) Glenn Dunks Now, if only they had replaced Mark Wahlberg, too, because he's acting in a far blander picture than Plummer and co-star Michelle Williams.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Ferdinand (2017) Glenn Dunks ...skip this cute-but-unnecessary feature and just watch the seven-minute Oscar-winning short from 1938 instead.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Glenn Dunks More of the same, and yet a case of diminishing returns.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Baby Driver (2017) Glenn Dunks It is perhaps appropriate that the last time we will (hopefully) ever have to look at Kevin Spacey's smug face is in a film that is as equally proud of itself.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Molly's Game (2017) Glenn Dunks Aaron Sorkin loves his own words so much that not even Jessica Chastain to get out from under them long enough to breathe life into this overlong and overstuffed poker drama.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
I, Tonya (2017) Glenn Dunks Furthermore, the film lazily utilises a fake documentary format that only seeks to highlight how much better the story was told in The Price of Gold.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
My Nephew Emmett (2017) Glenn Dunks Straight forward, although doesn't really hit its dramatic stride until its concluding moments...
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Marshall (2017) Glenn Dunks Strangely, they told a story from Marshall's life where he took the backseat to a white man.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Glenn Dunks This is a film with seemingly no real concept of what its strongest assets are, preferring buffoonery and irony over intelligence and nuance.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Darkest Hour (2017) Glenn Dunks As the credits rolled, the strongest opinion I had about it was a shrug.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Edith+Eddie (2017) Glenn Dunks I just wish director Laura Checkoway had confronted any of the issues that her documentary raises.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Kong: Skull Island (2017) Glenn Dunks This incarnation's weird Apocalypse Now vibes are an odd fit...
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Beauty and the Beast (2017) Glenn Dunks Disney's effort to turn their animated wonders into live action slogs continues apace with Beauty and the Beast, an ugly mess of cartoonish CGI.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Victoria & Abdul (2017) Glenn Dunks Your nan's fave starring Judi Dench also just happens to be a putrid ode to colonialism. What fun!
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
The Insult (2017) Glenn Dunks As subtle as its characters are stubborn, and with a couple of genuinely eye-rolling narrative twists - one of which I am still laughing at to this day.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Revolting Rhymes (2016) Glenn Dunks This adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1982 parody of nursery rhymes is more Sunday morning cartoon than anything approaching the genius of The Witches.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Dear Basketball (2017) Glenn Dunks Nice animation, but Bryant's poem is barf-worthy.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
C-
Breath (2017) Glenn Dunks There is a moment in the third act where Eva calls Sando's old wise man shtick "guru shit", and it would be amusingly self-observant if the screenplay wasn't fully committed to embracing two hours' worth of that very new-age nonsense.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Unsane (2018) Glenn Dunks Soderbergh has taken some potentially very taboo subject matters and given them a formally inventive twist and provocative narrative shell.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
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