This is the second film I have watched in the past week that is an intense and understated drama about the experiences of nurses in hospitals.
Continue readingLate Shift (Heldin)(2025)
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Ma – Cry of Silence (2024)
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It is hard to feel at all optimistic after this quiet meditation on the situation in Myanmar at the moment.
Continue readingTrains (Pociagi)(2024)
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A Useful Ghost (ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ)(2025)
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At the end of a long day of film watching, when you’re feeling a little bit tired emotionally wrung out by a couple of films, what you need is something a bit silly, a bit lovely and with a few twists and turns you don’t see coming.
Continue readingHarvest (2024)
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This is such an interesting film by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier), and something that I appreciated more after hearing her talk in a Q&A afterwards.
Continue readingThe Librarians (2025)
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I found this documentary deeply upsetting. I never thought there would be a situation where librarians would be the frontline warriors for human rights.
Continue readingCareless (2025)
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This documentary by Sue Thomson, who made Under Cover and The Coming Back Out Ball Movie, completes a loose trilogy that looks at ageing in Australia.
Continue readingOmaha (2025)
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I’m still feeling emotionally wrung out after this quietly intense drama, directed by Cole Webley but with the understated feels of writer Robert Machoian’s (The Killing of Two Lovers) all over it.
Continue readingIt Ends (2025)
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Westgate (2025)
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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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