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Wenlei MaTV and film critic

Wenlei Ma is the TV and film critic for news.com.au where she writes reviews, features and news about movies and streaming. A Rotten Tomatoes-approved Top Critic, she is a weekly contributor on RN Breakfast, a regular on ABC Nightlife and her film reviews are syndicated in The Sunday Telegraph. Wenlei has been a journalist for more than a decade, has been published in Empire, AdNews and was featured on ABC TV’s China Tonight.

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HOLLYWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 09: Natalie Portman speaks onstage during 'A Conversation With Natalie Portman' at the Screening of 'Vox Lux' at AFI FEST 2018 Presented By Audi at the Egyptian Theatre on November 9, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for AFI)

Portman: ‘I had to keep apologising’

Natalie Portman has many talents but, as it turns out, not one of the skills she needed for her new movie.

TV Shows

Mad Netflix TV show to binge right now

Coursing through Netflix’s new TV series is a rock and roll spirit that sets this show apart from its superhero cousins.

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New movie to fall in love with

This stunning film is gorgeously crafted and performed — the story of young lovers in an unjust world. It’ll make your heart flutter and ache.

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DIRTY JOHN -- Season:1 -- Pictured: (l-r) Connie Britton as Debra Newell, Eric Bana as John Meehan -- (Photo by: Frank Ockenfels/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Eric Bana talks Dirty John and sociopaths

Enthralling but creepy, a new Netflix series starring Eric Bana and Connie Britton drops on the streaming service tonight.

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Scene from the movie Alita: Battle Angel. 20th Century Fox films.

Lousy story drags down pricey blockbuster

It’s taken almost two decades for this new movie to finally come out. But all the time in development didn’t help its story.

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Secret behind Cameron’s $200m movie

James Cameron is known for pushing it as far as he can when it comes to spectacle. His newest movie is no different.

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PASADENA, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Geraldine Viswanathan of the television show 'Miracle Workers' poses in the green room during the TCA Turner Winter Press Tour 2019 at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on February 11, 2019 in Pasadena, California. 505702 (Photo by John Sciulli/Getty Images for Turner)

Americans are loving Aussie Geraldine Viswanathan

She was only on Home and Away as an extra but this Aussie star skipped straight over to the US and now they’re loving her.

TV Shows

What’s on TV: Miracle Workers, Dirty John and more

He may have found fame as The (brooding) Boy Who Lived but Daniel Radcliffe’s new role is something he’s much better suited to.

New Movies

Felicity Jones stars as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in ON THE BASIS OF SEX, directed by Mimi Leder. In cinemas February 7, 2019. An Entertainment One Films release.

New movie tells an extraordinary story

A feel-good new movie tells a brilliant story about an incredible person. But it’s not all it should be.

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Liam Neeson in a scene from the movie Cold Pursuit. StudioCanal films.

Cold Pursuit is not the action thriller you expected

If you thought Liam Neeson’s new movie is going to be Taken 4 but with tons of snow, you’d be dead wrong.

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