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Nadine Whitney

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Nadine Whitney is a freelance critic writing from Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-chair of The Australian Film Critics Association. Her focus is on women directed films.

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The Trouble with Jessica (2023) 56% F “The Trouble with Jessica is irritating when it’s trying to be funny and uninteresting when it’s not. Middle class hypocrisy is rote in British cinema and Winn’s work doesn’t manage to mine anything of consequence.” – InSession Film Apr 23, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Ochi (2025) 80% 3/5 “The Legend of Ochi is breathtaking with sparks of wonder and the director’s passionate devotion to craft lighting a well-trodden path.” – The Curb Apr 20, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 98% A “Sinners keeps pushing boundaries until Coogler has the audience in their own timeless revelry. Sweaty, sultry, and seductively Southern – Sinners is an ambitious masterpiece that raises roofs and burns brightly as it thrums with its infectious rhythm.” – InSession Film Apr 16, 2025 Full Review The Uninvited (2024) 85% 3/5 “The Uninvited is an earnest, sometimes scathing, but predominantly heartfelt examination of how little things change for women over the ages when it comes to having to choose career, motherhood, or being a support system for the insecurities of men.” – InSession Film Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 84% 3.5/5 “Drop feels like it could have been made over twenty-years ago with the exception of the key technology of the smartphone, and that’s a quality that is certainly in its favour. Landon manages once again to find the sweet spot between familiar and fresh. ” – This is Film Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% 2.5/5 “Death of a Unicorn isn’t an abject failure, but it is clear where things went wrong preventing it from being sharply honed. [It] soon runs out of steam when it tries to include some measure of sincerity in an otherwise amusing blood bath.” – The Curb Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% 3/5 “Warfare is a technical achievement par excellence; both raw and urgent. But once the adrenaline wears off and the movie reaches its coda, the questions begin to gather – the main being, “Why were they there in the first place?”” – InSession Film Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Leila and the Wolves (1984) A “Heiny Sror’s master work Leila and the Wolves (Leila wa al ziap) is a piece of resistance and feminism where culture, identity, and gender are moving in a ouroboros-like cycle.” – The Curb Mar 27, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% “The Alto Knights emerged too late, wearing the knowledge that “times change.” Unless a major director such as Scorsese, Michael Mann, or Francis Ford Coppola took the helm, in the 2020s The Alto Knights was bound to be an also ran.” – The Curb Mar 22, 2025 Full Review Magazine Dreams (2023) 80% “Majors elevates every aspect of the film and gives it a sheen that makes one almost ready to forgive its flaws and the messiness of the final act. Bynum looks into the world of a man forged in trauma who can never escape. ” – The Curb Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 15% F “The Electric State isn’t a movie, it’s an experiment conducted on the audience to determine how much dross they’ll tolerate.” – The Curb Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Hood Witch (2023) 64% 3/5 “Hood Witch has issues which make it a qualified success, but narrative and pacing flabbiness aside, it’s a powerful rebuke to the men who want to make a woman a “witch” and end up getting one who doesn’t take kindly to them messing with her.” – The Curb Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% A “Black Bag is a winning combination of style and game playing reminiscent of John le Carré. Black Bag proves Soderbergh has a lot of juice left in his genre game and it invites the audience to play with him. Go to the party.” – AWFJ.org Mar 15, 2025 Full Review This Life of Mine (2024) 85% “This Life of Mine misses some marks in places – but overall, it is a sweet curio enriched by Agnès Jaoui’s depiction of a woman whose journey to locate herself will resonate with many women. ” – The Curb Mar 15, 2025 Full Review Emmanuelle (2024) 17% “Rarely transgressive, rarely meeting the measure of sensual, and rarely coherent, Audrey Diwan does little to modernise the Emmanuelle character and even less to make her feel adventurous and feminist. Emmanuelle is perfunctory and unforgivably pedestrian” – The Curb Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Boléro (2024) 2.5/5 “Bólero lacks a strong through line to get to know the composer Maurice Ravel as if he were not to be known. Anne Fontaine doesn’t give focus to the interesting and accomplished women featured. The production falls flat.” – The Curb Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% 5/5 “Hard Truths is the master at work. Outrageous, heartbreaking, and considered filmmaking. Almost every Mike Leigh film is an event – whether small or large. Hard Truths is small and large because Pansy is both, but she is never a cliché or a figure of fun.” – The Curb Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “Mickey 17 is a minor work for Bong Joon-ho, but it is consistently engaging and absurd, sneaking in its ethical and ecological minefields for the unsuspecting.” – The Curb Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Niki (2024) 29% 2.5/5 “Niki is undeniably stylish and well shot but it lacks precision. Charlotte Le Bon’s excellent performance as the artist Niki de Saint-Phalle isn’t enough to make Niki a fully embodied film.” – AWFJ.org Mar 5, 2025 Full Review No Other Land (2024) 100% A “Neither Basel nor Yuval have answers, but they have hope – and it is that hope which makes No Other Land a galvanising and imperative piece of documentary filmmaking.” – The Curb Mar 1, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 79% “The Monkey isn’t deep, it’s high camp with an extreme body count pushing the envelope of horror-comedy to its natural conclusion. Supernatural snuff spectacle has rarely been so much fun.” – The Curb Mar 1, 2025 Full Review My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) 95% “A reminder that war doesn’t end for people once they get home. With powerful and nuanced performances and a script that is devoid of didacticism, My Dead Friend Zoe is an incredibly important and moving piece of cinema.” – AWFJ.org Feb 25, 2025 Full Review The Last Journey (2024) 85% “There’s little doubt that Filip and Fredrik are stage-managing the documentary as much as they are Lars’ adventures, but The Last Journey is good natured enough that it is difficult to mind. It would be a hard heart that isn’t moved by his journey.” – AWFJ.org Feb 25, 2025 Full Review The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) 71% 3/5 “James Ashcroft’s Grand Guignol in a NZ nursing home is vicious and mean-spirited. Making it either an instant psychological horror classic or a sickly spectacle. Either way, The Rule of Jenny Pen is difficult to shake off.” – AWFJ.org Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% “Presence is a sophisticated examination of trauma, redemption, and the ongoing nature of loss that comes together in an astonishing final act.” – AWFJ.org Feb 17, 2025 Full Review
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