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3.5/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Simon Miraudo
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I miss (the first half hour of) movies like this.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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3.5/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A lush and lived-in production, and some very good performers help build towards an almost ecstatic climax.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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5/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Enormous and outrageous American saga about how weird, sad, ceaseless and exploitative it is to pursue an ideal of exceptionalism that only ever makes you king of your own cavernous existence.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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4.5/5
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Yet another deliciously twisted, dizzyingly inventive and unforgivingly pointed treat from the masterful Director Park, working with perhaps his best ensemble to date.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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2/5
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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An empty movie, signifying nothing, that at first appears to be a worse version of Paul Schrader's Hardcore before ending up a bad version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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4/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Always cool to see telekinetic space squids burst out of the water and spear techno-colonisers on their speedboats.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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5/5
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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If this is more accessible than anything he's done before, it's not because it's conventional: it's because it reveals something dark, terrible and universal, waiting deep within us all.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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4/5
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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You don't have to be an actor to survive this family, but it helps.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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4/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Not as deliciously fun to unravel (and maybe not intended to be) but definitely the most philosophically interesting of the series so far. Less concerned with fingering the culprit, and more interested in the question: Can they be saved?
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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3/5
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Lurker
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Creepy and cringe-inducing, Lurker stays grounded, even though a little hysteria wouldn't have gone astray.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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3/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Technically proficient, with a charming cast and a tangible sense of place through excellent production design. But we don't evaluate films with a Marking Key, and it's the intangibles like tone, shape and verve that keep this from really singing.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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4/5
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Cloud
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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You don't just watch a Kiyoshi Kurosawa film. You willingly opt-in to adding new nightmare triggers.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dragonfly
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A well-acted and involving film about the tattered social safety net, which sees director Paul Andrew Williams working again in the realm of horror, or at least, the realm of the horrible.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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4/5
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Familiar Touch
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Delicate and dance-like, tactile and sensual, Familiar Touch is an entrancing look at old age, sure, but also the pleasures of rhythm, routine and sharing personal space.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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4/5
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Twinless
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A strangely funny, emotionally involving and thrillingly sinister stew full of fantastic surprises, one of which is the breadth of Dylan O'Brien's range.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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4/5
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A well-made thriller designed to make your knees wobble from two hours of cinematic edging.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Less like Uncut Gems and more like Lenny Cooke, this melancholy fight film loses steam in the second half but is elevated by an uncommonly sensitive Dwayne Johnson.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4.5/5
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V/H/S Halloween
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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They finally did it. You maniacs, you made a perfect V/H/S anthology.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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It may contain the single best movie moment of 2025, and it's a jittery, forced-perspective-car-chase-jump-scare seemingly shot from a helicopter. People should cheer.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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2.5/5
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A fascinating formal experiment, provided the experiment was to hide 20 minutes of a really vibrant and exciting movie inside an otherwise humiliatingly bad one.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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3/5
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The Bad Guys 2
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A charming, funny and compelling-enough (for kids) Mission: Impossible riff that also, inexplicably, has one of the most graphic open-mouth kisses ever committed to screen.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4/5
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Lesbian Space Princess
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A dizzying and delightful animated comedy that's both exactly what it says on the tin, and also much more.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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4.5/5
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Splitsville
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A very funny, brute force satire about the fact there's no such thing as an evolved person.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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4/5
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Sorry, Baby
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A perfectly pitched drama from Eva Victor, who makes the most interesting choice at every turn.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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4/5
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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I laughed so hard I had to take a knee in the cinema.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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An amiable and 'ambient' comedy that warms the heart like a hot cuppa.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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3/5
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Future Council
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Very satisfying to watch these kids firmly plant their feet up the backsides of the obfuscating adults.
Posted Aug 11, 2025
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3/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Two things can be true: This is the best Marvel movie in years, and it deserves a maximum of three stars.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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4.5/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Absolutely psychotic.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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2.5/5
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Superman
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Movies are usually good when they're actually about something.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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4/5
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Pavements
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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As idiosyncratic and ironic as the band, Pavement has found the perfect prickly partner in Alex Ross Perry.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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4/5
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Cronenberg's most magnetic film in years: a brazenly personal (and often funny) admission that grief is horniness: an intense corporeal attraction to the dead. And both grief and horniness are love too. For him, that's actually kinda sweet.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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3.5/5
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A Nice Indian Boy
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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A sweet, gentle and often very funny rom-com with two hugely appealing leads and a hilarious turn from stand-up Zarna Garg.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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3/5
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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I think it's a problem that Brad Pitt comes fourth in a ranking of this film's characters by charisma. But every problem has a solution, and F1's is Kerry Condon.
Posted Jun 20, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dangerous Animals
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Jai Courtney has finally locked into what makes him most compelling and entertaining on screen: an amiable larrikinism that he can finely calibrate for comedy, heartwarming family films or, here, unhinged horror.
Posted Jun 13, 2025
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4/5
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Mountainhead
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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An enjoyably sick experience, watching four titans of tech hilariously mangle the English language and plot the world's end while still falling afoul of petty interpersonal rivalries.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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2.5/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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John Wick is opera. This is karaoke.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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4/5
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Sally Hawkins shreds a loopy, dippy archetype and restitches it into an enervating movie monster, aided by three excellent young performers, in the Philippous' seriously impressive (and devastatingly sad) flick.
Posted May 30, 2025
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3/5
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Universal Language
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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A comforting stew of influences ranging from Guy Maddin to Aki Kaurismaki to Roy Andersson to Abbas Kiarostami. Thankfully the sleepy middle section is leavened by a cosmic finale.
Posted May 23, 2025
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4/5
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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For all the groaning faux-gravitas of The Final Reckoning, it still has two enormously giddy set pieces that stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best ever made.
Posted May 23, 2025
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3.5/5
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La Cocina
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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The engine room of America is a kitchen of immigrants at perpetual risk of expulsion in this frantic film that's 90 minutes of compelling, chaotic drama in a 140-minute container.
Posted May 16, 2025
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4/5
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Like the best Australian films it honours (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Wake in Fright, Long Weekend), this tempestuous psychodrama suggests a cosmic alienation for all Australian visitors since colonisation. You will never understand this country.
Posted May 09, 2025
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4/5
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An Unfinished Film
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Reality and fiction collapse in on themselves for this metatextual drama about the authoritarian constraints imposed on art and life, incited by a lumbering hunk of dramatic irony: that a crew should head to Wuhan in January 2020 to finish their film.
Posted May 02, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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It's a mathematical improbability for this to be so criminally enjoyable.
Posted May 02, 2025
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3.5/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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Alive with interesting ideas, and mostly successful in execution, but it leaves its most provocative theme underdeveloped: that "their" god is your devil.
Posted May 02, 2025
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3.5/5
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Warfare
(2025)
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Simon Miraudo
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A taut, stressful and immersive experience, with some great, lived-in performances. And just like Civil War, it doesn't need to be didactic in its (otherwise very clear) messaging.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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3.5/5
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Head South
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Can punk also be gently melancholy? Here's the proof.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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3.5/5
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Oh Canada
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Paul Schrader's ambient excursion into the psyche of a self-mythologising (and self-loathing) artist is equal parts enigmatic and revealing.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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Bob Trevino Likes It
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Not so much a tear-jerker as an extreme tear-juicer, but its heartfelt and endearing performances earn your sobs.
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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3/5
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
(2024)
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Simon Miraudo
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Eerily unpleasant (complimentary).
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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