Bell is an internationally renowned artist who works across painting, installation, video and performance, and a new documentary brings him to cinemas.
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The documentary Kickin’ Down the Door offers something far more nuanced than the well-thumbed tale of these national music icons.
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
Based on the 2019 book, She Said follows journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey as they report on Harvey Weinstein.
This year’s program balanced big films like My Policeman, TÁR and Banshees of Inisherin with smaller, edgier films. Here’s the best of the best.
Undercover cop narratives are usually full of anxiety, but The Stranger goes a step further, focusing on the trauma and darkness of the job.
Ningla-A’Na has now been restored and is being re-released in Australian cinemas.
Our expert shares the five films from the Melbourne International Film Festival that have stuck with him.
The plot is rudimentary, but the tone is totally compelling, the characters are likable, and the surf photography first rate.
Seven years in the making, this disturbing Australian film looks at the death of 100,000 citizens in during the second world war.
Now on Stan, the film comes in versions subtitled by Julia Davis, and Celia Pacquola with Ronny Chieng. The result is two very different types of humour.
Elvis is full of Luhrmann’s signature self-indulgence, inflated budget and artistic grandiosity – I loved it.
Our expert saw around 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, and presents their top picks.
Branagh’s adaptations are more concerned with Poirot himself than any of the suspects – the murder in this film only happens 70 minutes in.
Bollywood is demonstrating a renewed purpose of creating new national myths, such as 83’s retelling of India’s first win at the cricket world cup.
Far from the romance of 1981’s made-for-TV films, Spencer is trapped in a frozen Sandringham setting, gasping for air.
Woven throughout the backstories of these characters is the loss of loved ones, lack of resources and the desperation to get out of economic hardship.
An extraordinary technological feat, Get Back looks and sounds astonishingly good.
From Molly Reynolds and Shekhar Bassi, ShoPaapaa is a mundane and excruciating 95 minutes – but will become an enduring portrait of 2020.
A reworking of the 1892 Henry Lawson short story, this film is a subversive survival story.
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