October 30, 2025 Good Fortune (2025) Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut lands somewhere between ambitious and adequate. Which isn’t the crushing verdict it might sound like, though it’s not exactly a ringing… READ MORE
October 25, 2025 TRON: Ares (2025) Joachim Rønning’s third crack at Disney’s intermittent franchise delivers exactly what you’d anticipate from a legacy sequel, which is both its strength and, frustratingly, its… READ MORE
October 24, 2025 Frankenstein (2025) For decades, Guillermo del Toro has harboured dreams of bringing Mary Shelley’s creation to life. Not literally, one hopes, though given the director’s particular obsessions,… READ MORE
October 13, 2025 A House of Dynamite (2025) Eight years is a long time between films. Long enough to wonder if Kathryn Bigelow might have decided that fiction couldn’t compete with the absurdity… READ MORE
October 10, 2025 The Travellers (2025) Bruce Beresford’s latest film feels a bit like watching someone return to their childhood home only to realise they’ve forgotten why they left in the… READ MORE
October 4, 2025 The Smashing Machine (2025) A24 has waded into mixed martial arts territory with The Smashing Machine, and the result is less sports drama than psychological endurance test. Which is… READ MORE
October 2, 2025 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Cinema often tries to remind us of what we already know. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it bludgeons us with its insistence. Kogonada’s A Big Bold… READ MORE
September 29, 2025 Kangaroo (2025) Kate Woods’ return to feature directing with Kangaroo is a genuinely pleasurable, if entirely familiar, slice of Australian life. It’s a film that knows exactly… READ MORE
September 29, 2025 One Battle After Another (2025) Paul Thomas Anderson has always been good at taking ideas that are already known and making them into something completely new. His most recent project… READ MORE
September 25, 2025 Fight or Flight (2024) You know what’s curious about James Madigan’s directorial debut? It shouldn’t work. Not really. Fight or Flight is built from spare parts of better films,… READ MORE
