Bird (2024)
86%
4/5
“It meanders at times, but it soars too, lifted high on a belief love and family really do matter, no matter how scrappy and unconventional a form they may take.” –
Sydney Morning Herald
Feb 19, 2025
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September 5 (2024)
93%
4.5/5
“The technical stuff -- almost all of which plays out within the tight confines of the broadcast studio -- is fascinating. But the meat of September 5 lies elsewhere, in the big moral questions it poses.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 8, 2025
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Cunk on Life (2025)
100%
4/5
“Love her or loathe her, Philomena Cunk might be the perfect creation for our age. Blissfully and wilfully ignorant, she careens down the misinformation superhighway, sideswiping science, expertise and pomposity with abandon.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 13, 2025
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
3/5
“Acknowledging your sources is all well and good, but ultimately, you need to step out of the shadows of your inspiration. Robert Eggers is a truly gifted filmmaker; if only he had taken us away from all this debt.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 3, 2025
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Nugget Is Dead? A Christmas Story (2024)
2.5/5
“We do do dysfunctional families well. We do know how to cringe at the suburbia from which most of us have sprung... Laughs, though? The stockings are a little light on there, I’m afraid.” –
The Age (Australia)
Dec 3, 2024
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He Ain't Heavy (2024)
3.5/5
“For those who believe Australian cinema is too dark, too small, too focused on grim reality rather than the glittery stuff of the silver screen, He Ain’t Heavy will serve as proof. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Oct 30, 2024
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A Family Affair (2024)
35%
2.5/5
“It’s generic, predictable, mildly enjoyable and instantly forgettable.
Whether or not her character is making a bad match with her hunky actor boyfriend, I reckon Kidman deserves a lot better than this insipidly formulaic pap.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 5, 2024
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The Estate (2022)
32%
2.5/5
“ It’s a decent premise but, sadly, it amounts to less than the sum of its parts.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 2, 2023
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The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari (2022)
83%
4/5
“The Volcano does a great job of capturing those two minutes of terror, and the lifetime of pain that many will have to endure as a result. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Dec 10, 2022
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Ithaka (2021)
73%
4/5
“In its own small way, Lawrence’s film -- with its stirring soundtrack by Brian Eno, no less -- is an attempt to turn that light back where it belongs. Here’s hoping it’s not too late.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jun 15, 2022
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Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
95%
4/5
“It's a document of our times that soothes with laughter and comforts with the knowledge that no matter how much it felt otherwise, we really weren't alone.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jun 7, 2021
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Pieces of a Woman (2020)
76%
2.5/5
“Awards talk aside, it's a bit of a mess. But it does do a decent job of capturing the impulse to blame when joy is supplanted by tragedy and loss.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 3, 2021
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Friday on My Mind: The Story of The Easybeats (1970)
“It makes you proud to be Australian - in all its multicultural glory.” –
The Age (Australia)
Oct 12, 2020
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A Thousand Thoughts (2018)
4/5
“It's an ambitious project that teeters on the edge of preciousness without ever toppling. As a hybrid form, though, it sometimes leaves you wishing it could make up its mind and just be one thing or the other.” –
The Age (Australia)
Oct 15, 2019
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The Australian Dream (2019)
100%
4.5/5
“To put it in more emotional terms, if The Final Quarter left you seething at how appalling this country sometimes is, The Australian Dream might have you feeling cautiously optimistic about how good it can be -- if it has the will to try.” –
The Age (Australia)
Aug 1, 2019
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Share (2019)
83%
“For teens and their parents [this film] ought perhaps to be compulsory viewing. A word of advice though: maybe watch in separate rooms. Some things are just not meant to be shared.” –
The Age (Australia)
Aug 1, 2019
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I Am Mother (2019)
89%
“It's rich material, handled brilliantly by first-time feature director Grant Sputore, a West Australian, working from an intelligently wrought screenplay from American Michael Lloyd-Green.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jun 20, 2019
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Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)
100%
“Lowenstein's film has been a slow-burning labour of love.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 26, 2019
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Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019)
98%
“Call it contradictory or call it complexity, but it's all part of what makes Beyoncé so fascinating.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 25, 2019
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Cut Snake (2014)
69%
“Cut Snake is an unexpected and invigorating piece of work, blessed with a simply brilliant central performance.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 1, 2019
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Putuparri and the Rainmakers (2015)
“Neither preachy nor overly reverent, this is a remarkable piece of filmmaking that makes us feel we've been granted the rare privilege of witnessing something utterly unique, even as it teeters on the cusp of disappearing forever.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 1, 2019
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Snow Monkey (2016)
“That such things happen is reason to despair; that a street kid has been empowered to show them to the world is some small reason to hope.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 1, 2019
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West of Sunshine (2017)
79%
“As epitaphs go, it's close to perfect.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 5, 2019
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Jirga (2018)
78%
“The strain of making it sometimes shows, but [Jirga] is a quite remarkable piece of work all the same.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 5, 2019
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Cargo (2017)
88%
“Susie Porter, Anthony Hayes and David Gulpilil are among the excellent supporting cast in an uncommonly thoughtful spin on the genre.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jan 5, 2019
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