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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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Zany new movie’s amusing buffoonery

If you want a chaotic, heightened heist movie brimming with hijinks, shenanigans and antics, The Innocent is your jam.

Streaming

Beef. Ali Wong as Amy in episode 102 of Beef. Cr. Andrew Cooper/Netflix © 2023

Huge moment you missed in top Netflix show

Beef is a fantastic show for many reasons, but the one that’s surprisingly secondary is how it’s telling a different story.

Movie Reviews

Chaotic new movie is surprisingly gory

A movie that’s marketed as a lighthearted comedic caper turns out to be surprisingly gory and viscerally violent.

New Movies

What wasn’t true in wild new movie

Every based-on-a-true-story movie is prone to Hollywood exaggeration. So what did and didn’t happen in Tetris?

New Movies

Neill: ‘To be away from it was unbearable’

When Sam Neill revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer, he emphasised how glad he was to be back at work. Not acting was “unbearable”.

New Movies

Hugh Grant plays Forge in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from Paramount Pictures and eOne.

Geeky movie everyone will love

Not long ago, Dungeons & Dragons was a strange game only the nerdiest of the nerds played. Now, it’s for everyone.

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Beef. Steven Yeun as Danny in episode 101 of Beef. Cr. Andrew Cooper/Netflix © 2023

Easily the best show on Netflix in a year

Netflix has plenty of likeable, escapist shows. But something truly ambitious and great? That’s rare. Beef is that rarity.

Streaming

One of the best hours of TV ever

SPOILERS. Succession just released one of the finest hours of TV ever made. It is a masterpiece. And it is game-changing.

Streaming

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 20: Luciane Buchanan attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's

Netflix star bent the law for huge show

The Night Agent star Luciane Buchanan bent the rules to audition for what is currently Netflix’s most watched show in the world.

Streaming

TV show we’re ‘desperately craving’

So many comedies aren’t that funny – and they’re not even trying to be. We want a proper laugh-out-loud, goofy comedy series.

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