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Where rom-com meets torture porn, this movie is a shocker
Jack Quaid is likeable as the hero who can feel no pain, but over-the-top violence ruins Novocaine No Pain.
- Sandra Hall
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- ★★½
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The building blocks are there, but this movie cash-in is chaotic and uneven
A Minecraft Movie, a live-action adaptation of the biggest video game ever, grafts a stock fantasy quest onto a landscape where plot was never the point.
- Jake Wilson
Jason Statham past his peak slaughtering unimpressive foes in ultraviolent action film
Co-written by Sylvester Stallone, A Working Man follows a familiar pattern reaching back to Stallone’s 1980s action hero heyday.
- Jake Wilson
Richard Gere’s deathbed confessions thwarted by underwritten characters around him
Despite a cast that includes Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman, Oh, Canada fragments in a way that is difficult to care about – or piece together.
- Sandra Hall
- ★★★★
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The film that was so controversial, its director had to flee the country
Set during the women’s uprising in Iran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is courageous indictment of that country’s system.
- Sandra Hall
Timothee Chalamet deserves best actor, and Demi has the edge
While Adrien Brody is favourite, Chalamet’s performance in A Complete Unknown deserves recognition, as does Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here.
- Michael Idato
- ★★★½
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Pamela Anderson shines in showgirl tale that’s all dazzle, no razzle
The star brings an air of innocent gentility to her role as Las Vegas dancer facing the end of her career.
- Sandra Hall
Acclaimed Grand Tour is weirdly compelling yet totally disorienting
Miguel Gomes won the Best Director Award at Cannes last year for this mash-up of Asian travelogue, colonial satire and an ill-begotten love story.
- Sandra Hall
Why Muster Dogs’ new collies v kelpies contest is like Holden v Ford
The new season of Muster Dogs pits these two breeds against each other, but trainer Mick Hudson says it’s difficult to pick.
- Nicole Elphick
‘I was a pain’: Why Idol judge Marcia Hines takes the ‘kind’ route
The singer aims to be constructive in her criticism on Australian Idol, well remembering what it was like when she had to audition.
- Nicole Elphick
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