Reviews
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper, Jacki Weaver, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence shine in this charming new film from writer/director David O.…
The Impossible
While the narrative decision to focus on tourists rather than Thai locals in this tsunami-disaster movie is questionable, the film…
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino’s eighth feature is a gleeful, gore-filled homage to and subversion of the tropes of spaghetti westerns.
Lenin’s Kisses
A colossal satire by one of China’s greatest living authors about the unrelenting pursuit of wealth, and the corruption and…
Meanjin Anthology
This weighty retrospective of our second oldest literary journal presents the work of some of the most recognised names in…
1953
The tensions between past and future, change and stasis, remembering and forgetting, are channelled exceptionally into the minutiae of Geoff…
Compliance
Craig Zobel’s uncomfortable second feature echoes the infamous findings of Stanley Milgram’s behavioural studies, conducted at Yale in the early…
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen’s 42nd feature film as director feels forced and flat, which perhaps explains why it's taken three years to…
Here
Braden King’s first feature film explores the metaphysical relationship between two travellers in modern-day Armenia.
Laurence Anyways
The latest film from French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan tells a decade long, transgender love story.