I find it hard to objectively critique Australian films, particularly when you’re at the premiere and the audience is jam-packed with people who worked on the film and their friends and family.
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Lesbian Space Princess (2024)
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I can’t believe I almost skipped this film! It was such a delight from beginning to end.
Continue readingWe Bury the Dead (2024)
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Zombie movie – tick. Set in Tasmania – tick. Starring Daisy Ridley – okay, I can go with that.
Continue readingIron Winter (2025)
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Kasimir Burgess made a documentary Franklin a few years back, that I really enjoyed. With that film, he used a central story and narration to help us understand several threads about activism, nature, and acceptance of identity.
Continue readingThe Golden Spurtle (2025)
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Can a documentary be too quirkily perfect? This might be a good example of one, where, after thoroughly enjoying every perfectly framed moment and oddball character, I began to wonder if the whole thing was constructed like a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Continue readingHow to Make Gravy (2024)
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This is a well-meaning film that will have a guaranteed audience amongst Australians who love the Paul Kelly song it is based on.
Continue readingMemoir of a Snail (2024)
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If you feel like filling up your cup, without too much cloying sentimentality, I recommend Memoir of a Snail by Australian Adam Elliott.
Continue readingSaltburn (2023)
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Emerald Fennell gives us Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley dragged screaming into a fantastical modern world where desire perverts everything.
Continue readingThe Royal Hotel (2023)
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Director Kitty Green has some worthy documentary subjects under her belt and it’s no surprise that the excellent Hotel Coolgardie (2016) inspired her in this outback noir fictionalisation.
Continue readingHousekeeping for Beginners (2023)
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Goran Stolevski drops us into a maelstrom of a household and holds us there through grief and hardship and transcendent moments of love.
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