Reviews

Totally Completely Fine on Stan: living on the edge
Dark themes mean the drama outweighs the comedy in this new dramedy with Jojo Rabbit star Thomasin McKenzie.

Aunty Donna's Coffee Café review: locally sourced sketches with robust comical flavour
Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe is their first ABC-commissioned narrative comedy series, and as our local answer to Monty Python it…

Mafia Mamma: Toni Collette gets an offer she can't refuse
Collette, as always, lights up the screen but lots of options go unexplored in this Eat, Pray, Love meets The…

Evil Dead Rise: run the bloodbath
Jump scares and creepy possessions, brutally inventive violence and ridiculous amounts of blood – Evil Dead is back, baby

The Pope’s Exorcist review: God only knows
A weirdly committed turn by Russell Crowe lifts this demonic exorcism movie above some of the many it emulates.

Love Me S2 review: a rare local drama that puts character over corpses
Nine months have passed since we last spent time with the Mathiesons – it's good to be back in their…

The Super Mario Bros. Movie review: It's-a mess!
The Super Mario Bros Movie is an extremely detailed and colourful montage of nostalgia that sadly is so tightly shackled to…

The Power review: Toni Collette and the teenagers smashing the patriarchy
This rip-roaring adaptation of the Naomi Alderman novel asks, ‘What if Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids got superpowers?’

‘Tetris’ on Apple TV+ review: a boiling pot that's about to bubble overÂ
Tetris turns the game's licensing saga into entertaining high-stakes drama, and most of its embellishments work well to keep you…

Wellmania on Netflix review: a comedy with drama at its heart
Celeste Barber is perfectly cast as Liv in this Netflix adaptation of the memoir by Australian journalist Brigid Delaney.