The BBQ is a low-key Australian family comedy that aspires to be 2018’s answer to 90’s Oz comedy classic The Castle, but it’s too pedestrian to follow in that films footsteps.
For a studio whose storytelling style and command of visuals is so wonderfully inventive, in Early Man they’ve opted for the laziest, most obvious narrative trajectory imaginable, without even a winning sense of humour to back that up.
With average performances, a weak script, and a lack of sentiment regarding the treatment of Native Americans, Hostiles isn’t going to make audiences want westerns to come back anytime soon.