Film Reviews
Fisherman’s Friends eagerly invites its audience in and provides a worthwhile and heartwarming story that will have you humming along.
Every moment of Homewrecker, crazy or scary or just plain weird, is played with a lightness that makes it a joy to watch.
A Girl from a Box is a light-hearted short that manages to delve deep into modern relationships with a funny and delicate touch.
Despite feeling disjointed at times, Wake Up: Stories from the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention is a highly informative piece of filmmaking.
Welcome to Chechnya is likely to be the most urgent documentary of the year, but makes many exploitative missteps along the way.
James Benning’s latest work examines the ghostly spaces of human inhabitation through its austere and formalist rigour.
This Teacher isn’t a commercial film in its treatment of character, theme and aesthetic. But it’s one that deserves a mainstream audience.
Featuring a strong performance by Bill Nighy and not a whole lot else, there isn’t much in Sometimes Always Never to make this film stand out.
The self-styled, atmospheric glow of The Grey Fox is brought back thanks to Kino Lorber, and the 4K restoration looks immaculate.
This slick spy story has too many tricks up its sleeve, leading more to confusion than thrills.
An over the top, aimless blunder of foolery, Dreamland is remarkably disastrous yet instantly forgetful.
The Journey Is the Destination is vibrant, violent, and sad, but it celebrates Dan Eldon’s exceptional life well.
Retrocausality has a lot of pieces that could make both an interesting and philosophical character study but it is not executed well.
For this report from the virtual Sydney Film Festival 2020, we delve into thirteen of the short film finalists.
Of all the crime films to emerge from the 90s, Carl Franklin’s neo-noir masterpiece One False Move stands as one of the forgotten gems.