Reviews
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Aquarius is a shrine to an incredible woman with a confounding central performance from Sonia Braga. Writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho crafts a consuming tale about principles and passion.
Swiss Army Man (2016) Movie Review: Home is Where the Farting Corpse Is [Sydney Film Festival]
Swiss Army Man's reputation precedes itself. When you reanimate the corpse of our cinematic Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, and have his arsehole barking out more noises than the guy from Police Academy, you'd expect the attention.
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Uplifting, devastating, touching, Mustang is a magnificent tale about sisters wrestling to break free of cultural and generational gender shackles.
The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus - 2015) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
South Africa is racial battleground. The wounds of the apartheid era and the institutional prejudice continue to affect the country.
Down Under (Abe Forsythe - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Somehow a dark comedy about the Cronulla Riots, despite one's knee jerk rejection to that premise, is precisely what the Australian cinematic landscape needs.
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Beneath this unassuming exterior is a beautiful tale of living a fulfilling existence.
Goldstone (Ivan Sen - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Ivan Sen and Aaron Pedersen's Jay Swan are the indigenous cinematic heroes we deserve.
It's Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan - 2016) [Sydney Film Festival]
Those wanting to boo need not apply.
Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée - 2015) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Leading man Jake Gyllenhaal continues his performance hot streak (Prisoners, Enemy, Nightcrawler, Southpaw) in director Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition; a stirring ride towards necessary self destruction.
War on Everyone (John Michael McDonagh - 2016) [Sydney Film Festival]
John Michael McDonagh's (JMM) War on Everyone is a buddy cop parody that feels like Shane Black doing Bad Lieutenant.
High-Rise (Ben Wheatley - 2015) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Ben Wheatley is a filmmaker that rails against a passive viewing experience; forcing the audience to unpack and study every frame of the his constantly intriguing enigma.