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Still from The Boy and The Heron. Image: Studio Ghibli/Sony Pictures Entertainment. Streaming on SBS On Demand.
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The Boy and The Heron review: Miyazaki's masterful return to form

The Boy and The Heron is Hayao Miyazaki's most daring and vulnerable work yet, signalling a welcome return to form…

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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off review: Netflix animation gives hero's journey an extra life

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a surprising rehash of the hero's journey, serving as both an alternative and a complimentary…

Marshmallow Laser Feast. Image is three silhouettes in front of a large image of a galaxy like world covering an entire wall.
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Exhibition review: Works of Nature: Marshmallow Laser Feast, ACMI

A trippy excursion into a world of swirling pixels has profound intent in ACMI's Marshmallow Laser Feast.

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Godzilla Minus One review: roar and emotional

Godzilla Minus One goes back to the Kaiju's origins, and in doing so rewrites the myth to include more Japanese…

Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Image: Roadshow Films. 5 best new films.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a highly entertaining expansion of the young adult film franchise.

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Saltburn review: Fennell's film is wicked fun

The Promising Young Woman filmmaker is clearly having fun with our expectations ... as is the stellar cast.

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Blade Runner Live review: like C-beams near the Tannhäuser Gate

Ridley Scott's masterpiece screened with a live performance of the original Vangelis score? I've heard things you people wouldn't believe.

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Brand Bollywood Downunder review: where India and Australia meet

Anupam Sharma’s latest feature documentary maps and tracks Australia’s connection with the Indian film industry – with varying success.

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Australian Epic, ABC review: history played to new tunes

The new six-part series wants to remind of classic moments from our recent past, but with a twist: musical numbers!

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Film reviews: Flora on the Sand (1964) and Juvenile Jungle (1956)

The feature of a retrospective at the 2023 Japanese Film Festival, Kō Nakahira was a filmmaker who interrogated themes of…

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