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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.
Only two weeks into 2018, Swinging Safari is Australia’s worst film of the year thus far with its muddled need to elevate the material.
Paddington 2 is the rare sequel that is better than the original, filled with a good natured warmth that will delight children and parents alike.
In our latest entry of The Nominated Film You May Have Missed series, we discuss the 1989 Robin Williams drama Dead Poets Society.
The Family I Had is a sensitively-crafted and thoughtful documentary, utterly harrowing in its depiction of a family’s tragedy, but all the more powerful for being so.
If you are looking for the best film of the saga, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not the film you are looking for.
From 2008, French film A Christmas Tale offers a different type of holiday film – one that is melancholy, depressing, and yet also intriguing.
The Santa Clause isn’t the festive classic you remember – it’s a soulless comedy that doesn’t even understand the meaning of Christmas.
With verisimilitude, outstanding acting from its central and supporting cast, and sentient multifaceted perspectives, Wonder succeeds.
Coco is a refreshingly respectful look at Mexican culture, told from a child’s perspective but in a surprisingly poignant way as well.
With a weak and unfocused plot, Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck feels like a love letter that isn’t quite sure who it’s addressing.
The heart of Daddy’s Home 2 is lost by formulaic tendencies and its overbearing insistence on being funny. It’s no future Christmas classic.
Mudbound is a gorgeous and affecting film, regarding themes of racism and the after effects of war in 1950s Mississippi.
Mum is an incredibly moving and profound short film about a transgender woman reconnecting with her ailing mother.
Brad’s Status is a film about social media that is bolstered by its performances, but ultimately it is not particularly memorable.
