Reviews

Gladiator II review: I'm not NOT entertained
Gladiator II has huge blockbuster potential, but falls prey to all the Hollywood sequel traps.

The Big Trip, Channel 7 review: you could fall asleep and not miss a thing
The Big Trip sees four celebrity teams drive 3,000 kilometres, from Nullarbor to Sydney.

The Pool review: Sydney documentary is beautiful but shallow
The Pool, Ian Darling's handsomely shot documentary, spent a year filming in and around Sydney’s Icebergs Pool.

We Bury the Dead review: gruesomely hilarious Tasmanian survival thriller
In We Bury the dead, Hobart has been annihilated: cue a future cult classic film with a wow-a-minute story.

Audrey film review: comedy with teenage hopes and tacky tropes
Audrey's comedy might be blunt at best, but it gets better as it goes along and the characters begin to…

The Jury: Death on the Staircase, SBS review: a gripping true crime show
The case the 12 jurors are faced with in SBS's new court show is real, and the insights into the…

Always Listening, SBS review: Lifeline volunteers share their stories
Australian director Genevieve Bailey’s powerful new documentary Always Listening puts faces to the voices who volunteer for Lifeline.

The Correspondent, film review: Peter Greste thriller on a vitally important topic
The Correspondent, starring Richard Roxburgh, examines the dangers facing a free and fair press.

Territory, Netflix review: a soapy Shakespearean outback saga
Territory takes a widescreen look at a scheming family on a Northern Territory cattle farm, with twists round every corner…

Nautilus review: a rollickingly subversive submarine story
Nautilus serves up plenty of swashbuckling entertainment while posing curly colonial questions.