A Working Man (2025)
49%
2/5
“There are many ways a generic movie like this can be elevated, but director David Ayer hasn't been able to access any of them. The screenplay is over-complicated, the villains are impossible to take seriously and the action is an unengaging blur.” –
The Post NZ
Apr 10, 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
97%
4.5/5
“A slow-burning tale of real horrors, told on a human scale. A week after I first saw it, I still think about this film and its characters every day.” –
The Post NZ
Apr 10, 2025
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The Return (2024)
78%
4/5
“Writers John Collee and Edward Bond are a couple of veterans, and they have crafted a lean, linear and still poetic piece of work here. And the violence, when it famously arrives, is gratifyingly blunt, bloody and unadorned.” –
The Post NZ
Apr 10, 2025
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A Minecraft Movie (2025)
48%
3.5/5
“ A noisy, funny, good-natured mess of a film. ” –
The Post NZ
Apr 10, 2025
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Queer (2024)
77%
4/5
“Daniel Craig is a marvel here. He flings himself around inside Lee, clearly loving the vulnerability and the volatility of the role. ” –
The Post NZ
Apr 10, 2025
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Grand Tour (2024)
91%
4.5/5
“Grand Tour is an intoxicatingly beautiful film at times, and mostly a hypnotically watchable one. It is funny, playful, a bit overlong, probably quite profound, almost certainly satiric, wholly unrepeatable and unclassifiable.” –
The Post NZ
Apr 10, 2025
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The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024)
71%
4/5
“With a couple of less-well-known actors, The Rule of Jenny Pen would still have been a bloody good film. But Rush and Lithgow are titans for a reason – and they both leave it all on the field.” –
The Post NZ
Mar 25, 2025
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Disney's Snow White (2025)
40%
3.5/5
“Snow White is a pretty insipidly written role without much call for grit or fire. But Zegler finds at least a couple of moments to bare her teeth and make the character momentarily come alive. And her singing voice, of course, is absolutely stunning ” –
The Post NZ
Mar 25, 2025
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The Last Showgirl (2024)
83%
4/5
“This is a poignant, engrossing and authentically moving film.” –
The Post NZ
Mar 25, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
3.5/5
“Imagine Agatha Christie had been asked to adapt a story by John le Carré - and then wedged a drug-addled tribute to Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? into the middle of it.” –
The Post NZ
Mar 25, 2025
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
5/5
“The characters are too well-drawn and the situations they are working through are too acutely observed to ever make us want to turn away or miss a minute of what is being said – or left unsaid.” –
The Post NZ
Mar 25, 2025
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Lucky Winners (2024)
2.5/5
“If Govare and Choay (The Shiny Shrimps) had relinquished some of their control, and brought in other writers and directors for a few of the segments, then maybe Lucky Winners could have found a bit more tension and intrigue” –
The Post NZ
Mar 25, 2025
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Wicked (2024)
87%
4.5/5
“Pretty much a triumph, this honours the stage show in all the ways that matter, but revels in some set-pieces that could only be achieved on a screen.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 30, 2024
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There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
89%
4.5/5
“This is a raucous and gritty slice of modern-day Italian neorealism. It is a film with a lot on its mind, but writer and director Paola Cortellesi has a deft way with a scene and a line, and the film remains buoyant from the first frame to the last.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 30, 2024
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The Shamrock Spitfire (2024)
3.5/5
“The acting is mostly serviceable, the storytelling and action are forthright and the special effects are enjoyably aspirational.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 30, 2024
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Moana 2 (2024)
61%
3.5/5
“No one will ever list Moana 2 as one of those sequels that surpasses – or even equals – the original. But if you have a house full of young'uns who need entertaining – and they've seen Wicked already – then Moana 2 will be just fine.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 28, 2024
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Saturday Night (2024)
78%
4.5/5
“Saturday Night is an immersive and mostly convincing trip to a time and place that has become legendary – at least among comedy geeks who care far too much about this stuff.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 17, 2024
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Never Look Away (2024)
93%
4/5
“Never Look Away is a portrait of a piratical misfit who never looked back and always – always – got the shots she had come for. Margaret Moth was one-of-a-kind – and Lawless' film is exactly the raucous and affectionate tribute she deserves.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 17, 2024
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Memoir of a Snail (2024)
95%
4.5/5
“Memoir of a Snail looks like a work of art. And that would be reason enough to see it. But if you close your eyes and just listen to the voices telling the story, I reckon this film could move you just the same.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 17, 2024
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Gladiator II (2024)
70%
2.5/5
“Gladiator II is an underwhelming film. Yes, it is epic and spectacular at times. But the writing is unambitious - and unoriginal - by choice. After a 24-year-wait, with a rumoured quarter-billion-dollar budget, we could have expected more.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 13, 2024
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Weekend in Taipei (2024)
52%
2.5/5
“Once you accept that the script is dumber than a bag of hammers and almost nothing that happens on-screen is going to make any sense at all, then there is plenty here to enjoy. ” –
The Post NZ
Nov 3, 2024
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Here (2024)
37%
2/5
“I found Here unintentionally creepy, saccharine and contrived. But I also don't doubt Zemeckis and his cast were trying to create something heartfelt and human.” –
The Post NZ
Nov 3, 2024
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Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
40%
2/5
“The trilogy has always featured some great actors and few inspired ideas, mostly buried under a mess of generic plotting and seemingly rushed special effects. If The Last Dance is the last we see the character, then he's going out exactly as he came in.” –
The Post NZ
Oct 31, 2024
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Smile 2 (2024)
86%
4/5
“Smile 2 could have used a slightly tighter edit – a couple of scenes could have been dropped – but this is still one of the best-staged, best-directed and well-thought-through movies I've seen this year.” –
The Post NZ
Oct 31, 2024
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Kneecap (2024)
96%
4/5
“Whether you think you like hip-hop or not, go and see Kneecap on a big screen. And tell the crew at the cinema to turn the volume all the way up.” –
The Post NZ
Oct 31, 2024
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