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Senior culture writer of The SMH and The Age, Louise Rugendyke, chats to the cast of 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy'.
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'It's a gift': Renee Zellweger on her 24-year relationship with Bridget

Senior culture writer of The SMH and The Age, Louise Rugendyke, chats to the cast of 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy'.

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Chloe (Callina Liang) is still grieving over the unexplained death of best friend in Presence.

Steven Soderbergh injects new life into the haunted house mystery

In Presence, the director pairs the supernatural with the modern problem of social media driving young people to engage extreme in acts of humiliation and bullying.

  • Sandra Hall
Where to look?: John Magaro as Geoffrey Mason in Munich.

Based on a real story, this claustrophobic thriller could hardly be more timely

Set almost entirely in a broadcast centre, September 5 revisits the terror attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and how one news crew covered it.

  • Karl Quinn
Daniel Craig, left, is cast as William Lee, a Burroughs alter ego and heroin addict.

Daniel Craig as a drunken letch couldn’t be less like James Bond in this steamy movie

The former 007 star plays against type in this adaptation of a William S. Burroughs novella.

  • Sandra Hall
Nicole Kidman in Babygirl

Nicole Kidman has probably never been weirder than she is in Babygirl

Babygirl has been billed as an erotic thriller: the erotic part is accurate, but it’s hardly a thriller. All up, it’s a much more ambitious movie than expected.

  • Jake Wilson
Angelina Jolie plays doomed opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.

Angelina Jolie is convincing but this Maria Callas biopic will leave you cold

You won’t find too many high notes in Pablo Larrain’s gloomy drama, which focuses on the last two weeks of the doomed opera singer’s life.

  • Sandra Hall
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From top left: The Substance; Conclave; Anora; Emilia Perez; Wicked; and The Brutalist.

Reviewed: How our critics rated the Oscar best picture nominees

From Wicked to A Complete Unknown and Anora, here are our critics’ takes on this year’s Academy Award nominated films.

Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) and his wife Erzsebet (Felicity Jones) in The Brutalist.

Despite all the awards buzz, is The Brutalist actually any good?

In an industry which ranks familiarity as its favourite selling point how do you peddle a script so original that it defies comparison?

  • Sandra Hall
 Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

Timothee Chalamet ditches the cuteness and produces an electric Bob Dylan

A Complete Unknown is the actor’s most impressive performance to date: not merely an imitation of the young Dylan, but an interpretation of his body of work.

  • Jake Wilson
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in We Live in Time.

Florence Pugh’s new weepie remains upbeat as time takes its toll

In We Live in Time, Pugh and Andrew Garfield play a couple whose shared sense of the ridiculous proves robust enough to survive almost anything.

  • Sandra Hall

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