Afire, directed by Christian Petzold.
Sydney Film Festival
50 films, around a third brilliant, and only two duds. We would never find this outside of an international film festival.
The poster for The Flash (2023).
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It’s Keaton’s razor-edged, comedic darkness that allows the film to gather emotional depth.
Vin Diesel and Daniela Melchior in Fast X.
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The seemingly chaotic nature of the Fast Saga’s development is central to the Furious-verse’s appeal.
Nicolas Cage as Dracula in Renfield (2023).
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Renfield attempts to remodel the vampire movie to 21st century specifications.
IMDB
What is the ongoing appeal of a film dubbed ‘the Citizen Kane of bad films’ 20 years on?
Madman Entertainment
Bell is an internationally renowned artist who works across painting, installation, video and performance, and a new documentary brings him to cinemas.
Maslow Entertainment
The documentary Kickin’ Down the Door offers something far more nuanced than the well-thumbed tale of these national music icons.
Stan
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
Universal Pictures
Based on the 2019 book, She Said follows journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey as they report on Harvey Weinstein.
Survival of Kindness.
Adelaide Film Festival
This year’s program balanced big films like My Policeman, TÁR and Banshees of Inisherin with smaller, edgier films. Here’s the best of the best.
Netflix
Undercover cop narratives are usually full of anxiety, but The Stranger goes a step further, focusing on the trauma and darkness of the job.
Moratorium for Black rights Sydney from the film NINGLA ANA.
Ningla-A’Na has now been restored and is being re-released in Australian cinemas.
MIFF
Our expert shares the five films from the Melbourne International Film Festival that have stuck with him.
Madman Entertainment
The plot is rudimentary, but the tone is totally compelling, the characters are likable, and the surf photography first rate.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Seven years in the making, this disturbing Australian film looks at the death of 100,000 citizens in during the second world war.
Stan
Now on Stan, the film comes in versions subtitled by Julia Davis, and Celia Pacquola with Ronny Chieng. The result is two very different types of humour.
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Elvis is full of Luhrmann’s signature self-indulgence, inflated budget and artistic grandiosity – I loved it.
Sydney Film Festival
Our expert saw around 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, and presents their top picks.
Disney
Branagh’s adaptations are more concerned with Poirot himself than any of the suspects – the murder in this film only happens 70 minutes in.
IMDB
Bollywood is demonstrating a renewed purpose of creating new national myths, such as 83’s retelling of India’s first win at the cricket world cup.