Reviews
Elles
Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska is not subtle in her cinematic exploration of the parallels between domestic duties and sex work.
Smashed
Mary Elizabeth Winstead excels as an alcoholic teacher seeking to put her liquor-fuelled life behind her in this engaging, unsentimental…
Barbara
From one of Germany’s most respected directors comes this haunting portrait of unexpected love and charity in the claustrophobic confines…
The Magistrate
Australian audiences can delight in this slice of classic theatrical comedy thanks to the National Theatre Live film program.
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis gives the definitive performance of Abraham Lincoln, the iconic US President whose second-term struggle to ban slavery forever…
Flight
The audience's hopes for entertainment crash along with the plane piloted by Denzel Washington in this pedestrian, uneven drama.
Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Chastain proves the epitome of ruthlessness and relentlessness in director Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed drama about the hunt for Osama…
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper, Jacki Weaver, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence shine in this charming new film from writer/director David O.…
The Impossible
While the narrative decision to focus on tourists rather than Thai locals in this tsunami-disaster movie is questionable, the film…
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino’s eighth feature is a gleeful, gore-filled homage to and subversion of the tropes of spaghetti westerns.