Nine Perfect Strangers tries to be a satire on wellness culture — and yet celebrates its trappings all the same.
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The film misses an opportunity to highlight the broader problems of inequality and discrimination in the media.
Jane Campion’s second series of Top of the Lake, which premiered in Melbourne at the weekend, is an ominous, lyrical, genre-bending exploration of the sex trade.
Lion, which has screened to critical acclaim around the world, seems to think it’s a political film. In reality it’s an effective melodrama that uncritically embraces a colonial fantasy of white saviours.
