Search News

See all news

Reviews

Features

MIFF 2023 snapshots: opening weekend

MIFF at a glance: two sentence reviews to help you choose what film to see next at the festival.

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

MIFF Review: Family is haunted in Joanna Hogg's The Eternal Daughter

Tilda Swinton plays dual roles in this elegiac closing chapter to The Souvenir and its sequel. These musings on memories…

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Heartstopper season 2 review: is there life left yet in Nick and Charlie’s burgeoning romance?

Can the luminous adaptation of Alice Oseman’s cute queer comics maintain the huge hit status for Netflix?

Twisted Metal TV Show Review
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

‘Twisted Metal’ TV show is a surprisingly watchable high-concept comedy

Twisted Metal fits nicely into the modern TV comedy show mould, and is entertaining and unique enough to keep you…

Sophie Wilde in Talk to Me. Image: A24.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Talk to Me review: an Australian horror to possess you

Adelaide directors Danny and Michael Philippou deliver a seat-jumping cult hit in the making.

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Exhibition review: Two Girls From Amoonguna, ACMI

‘Two Girls From Amoonguna’ is about pushing through adversity and alchemising it into art that speaks to the spirit and joy of life…

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Barbie review – this Barbie will bust the block

Barbie perfectly walks the line between being a Greta Gerwig film and a Mattel movie based on a toy, and…

The Bear Season 2. Image: Disney+
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

The Bear Season 2 review: mo' money, mo' problems

The second season of the award-winning show establishes a new set of high-steaks (and well-done steaks) from the get-go.

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Oppenheimer review: Nolan approaches the sublime

A mighty ensemble carries Nolan's epic thriller Oppenheimer through its hellfire glare and haunted grey pallor.

Marta Dusseldorp in Bay of Fires. Image: ABC iview.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Bay of Fires on ABC review: excruciating attempts at comedy

The ABC's new show reels between comedy and drama in a stressful and frustrating way, hiding its stakes from both…

1 15 16 17 18 19 163