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The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “As a thriller, The Secret Agent is exciting and entertaining, an evocative piece of art that’s wholly lived in, plunging you into a messy and tense environment of political repression and fear.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4.5/5 EDIT “At the risk of seeming woo-woo, Hamnet does hold you in a metaphorical embrace, one which gives you permission to feel connected to emotions the rest of the world tells you to push down. ” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “Josh Safdie’s film commands your attention, and in casting Chalamet, one of the most talented actors of his generation who turns in an undeniably gung-ho performance, Marty Supreme earns it.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Christy is a film you want to admire rather than one you like.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “This is a film that sets out to make you feel things, but does it with seeming effortlessness, so you never feel like big moments are being signposted.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s not offensive. It’s not the worst thing you’ll see all year. What it is, is boring. Mind-numbingly boring. Dozed off in the chair boring. Thinking about your supermarket shopping list boring.” – The Nightly (AU) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Twisty murder mystery that tickles not just your brain but your funny bone.” – The Nightly (AU) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Zootopia 2 is not only a family film that caters to all ages, but its jokes are so clever, it will make you feel as if the filmmakers wrote it just for you” – The Nightly (AU) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Wicked For Good lacks the dynamism and energy of its predecessor. Without the razzle-dazzle seduction and distraction double-punch of the first part’s many, big, all-in numbers, it falls flat much of the time.” – The Nightly (AU) Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Die My Love is a challenging experience that pokes and prods, makes you unsettled, gives you few answers and lets you languish in the discomfort. ” – The Nightly (AU) Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “Bugonia belongs to Jesse Plemons. The desperation, the righteousness and just the sweatiness makes Teddy both magnetic and repulsive.” – The Nightly (AU) Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “It unfolds quite leisurely, a hallmark of Kelly Reichardt whose pacing is always deliberate and contemplative, challenging viewers to sit in a moment.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 3/5 EDIT “Jeremy Allen White's performance is the best thing about the film which is otherwise a middle-of-the-road biopic with good intentions that ultimately fails to match the legacy of an incredible album and artist.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “It is, in a nutshell, a lot. Too long. Too obvious. Too much.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s Derek Cianfrance’s ability to explore the multiplicities in a person, all the good, the bad and the spaces in between, that makes his films such wonderful and complex little gems. ” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Tron: Ares is a visual and audio assault so overwhelming to the senses that this is one movie which might actually be better seen on a medium screen, rather than the biggest one you can find. Your eardrums and retinas will thank you for it later.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Your pulse will quicken, your knuckles will whiten, and you will consider the prospect of nuclear annihilation as more likely than before the viewing.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “In Paul Greengrass’s hands, The Lost Bus is high-octane action underscored by the intimacy of the human stories that are caught in the whirlwind of these greater disasters.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% 2/5 EDIT “Him falls apart in the second half as it becomes overwhelmed by everything it wants to say about football as a religion - and subtext very quickly becomes text.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “The Smashing Machine, for something that promised an unforgettable story about a legend, is too ordinary to make a real impression.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 2/5 EDIT “The worst part is that at only 82 minutes, you’ll still find yourself restless and wondering when is it going to wrap up. There wasn’t even enough funny material to sustain that length with the final act basically just a concert film.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 1, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “It’s not just that it is superbly crafted on every level, it is also properly entertaining. It has a momentum that propels everything forward always, and never wavers in capturing and holding your attention.” – The Nightly (AU) Sep 23, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 2/5 EDIT “The film is laden with schmaltz without offering anything that hasn’t already been pinned to thousands of Pinterest boards. Live, laugh, love!” – The Nightly (AU) Sep 21, 2025 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Lesbian Space Princess is a winning, lovable film that genuinely tickles and hugs while also giving you plenty of reasons to laugh and rave about how wonderful it is that this little pocket rocket of a film was made here at home.” – The Nightly (AU) Sep 21, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “The Naked Gun is an unadulterated good time, absolutely brimming with sight gags, one-liners and goofy humour. Only the most joyless would oppose its existence. ” – The Nightly (AU) Aug 12, 2025 Full Review
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