Miranda Tapsell in Top End Wedding, a new Australian film about identity and belonging, directed by Wayne Blair (The Sapphires).
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What makes the Dilan series unique is that it provides Indonesia’s young audiences, who were born in the 1990s, with a window on urban youth in Bandung during Soeharto’s New Order regime.
Captain Marvel has fun taking us back to the 1990s.
Marvel Studios
We have robots that can walk and run but still a long way to go before the technology matches the cybernetic skills in the new science fiction film Alita: Battle Angel.
Stephan James and Kiki Layne in If Beale St Could Talk.
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Trailblazing US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known to many as the ‘Notorious RBG’. But the new film On the Basis of Sex is a muted portrayal of her.
Leah Ashwood, Jasper Lloyd, and Texas Watterston in The School (2018).
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While queer movies don’t necessarily have to be made by queer filmmakers, Boy Erased is a safe film. It is finely made albeit heavy-handed in its melodrama.
First Man: Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon.
Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures
The new film is a down-to-Earth portrayal of astronaut Neil Armstrong and our complex relationship with the Moon.
Tom Hardy in Venom: the intense action sequences are balanced by disarming humour.
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Venom is an engrossing science fiction film, which balances intense action sequences with disarming humour. Viewing it in 4DX, however, did not add to the experience.
Mike Wheeler (Sam Smith) and his taxi driver (Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad) in Jirga.
Zanny Begg’s film The Beehive, about the 1975 murder of Juanita Nielsen, dismantles the idea that documentaries can impart unequivocal knowledge about the world.
A prettier predator we have not seen.
20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment
Scientists and soldiers deal with alien invaders in the new Predator movie, but how does the science stack up? With brains and brawn you’d think they’d know how to keep an alien tied down to a table.
Constance Wu and Henry Golding in Crazy Rich Asians.
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Crazy Rich Asians is an entertaining film, but also has been a long time coming. The struggle for Asian representation in Hollywood and Broadway started more than 55 years ago.