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Elenoa Rokabaro in Hadestown.

From Greek myth to a New Orleans jazz bar, Hadestown weaves its magic

The multi-award-winning Broadway and West End musical is bringing its tragic love story to Melbourne.

  • Lenny Ann Low

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Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) in Thunderbolts*.

Thunderbolts* puts Marvel back on track – thanks to Florence Pugh

The actor finds a remarkable amount of nuance in her character, a Soviet super-soldier turned CIA assassin.

  • Jake Wilson
Mareta with her young charges.

This light-hearted, rhythmic tear-jerker from New Zealand is a gem

Tina tells the story of a Polynesian teacher in an elite private school who challenges the status quo when she establishes a school choir

  • Sandra Hall
Steve Coogan (centre) stars in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Dr. Strangelove.

Masterly chaos as Steve Coogan stars in stage reboot of Dr Strangelove

Armando Iannucci’s timely West End adaptation of the Stanley Kubrick classic can now be seen in cinemas.

  • Sandra Hall
Jazz Sessions in the Rocks.

All the best in free fun for May in Sydney

There’s something for everyone with festivals, talks, live gigs, family fun and much more – and it’s free.

  • Nicole Elphick
Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2.

Action, intrigue, line-dancing – The Accountant 2 has it all

In a sequel to the 2016 film, Ben Affleck’s autistic savant accountant is once again called upon to perform complex mathematical calculations and dish out extreme violence.

  • Jake Wilson
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Meghann Fahy in Drop.

Drop: As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages

Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.

  • Jake Wilson
Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan (playing identical twins) and Omar Benson Miller in Sinners.

Historic bluesfest or semi-comic bloodfest? Sinners is both

Marvel director Ryan Coogler goes Southern Gothic in this tale of identical twins and an Irish vampire with a taste for the blues.

  • Sandra Hall
Callina Liang in Bad Genius.

Bad Genius is smart but fails to fulfil its early promise

This Hollywood remake of a 2017 Thai hit tracks a brainy high-schooler who has to break the rules to achieve her dreams.

  • Jake Wilson
Rami Malek plays a nerdy CIA analyst out for revenge in The Amateur.

Rami Malek is no action hero – and that’s the point in The Amateur

When a nerdy CIA cryptographer, played by Malek, determines to avenge the death of his wife, ingenuity is his most potent weapon.

  • Sandra Hall

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