Review
There’s a new Captain America, but Marvel is starting to feel like old news
Starring Anthony Mackie, Brave New World is closer to a TV procedural, especially when we’re following Sam and his sidekick.
- Jake Wilson
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- ★★★ ½
- Movies
‘Romance addict’ Bridget Jones returns with new dilemma
She may be older, but the rom-com darling doesn’t seem to be wiser in this fourth outing of the beloved franchise.
- Sandra Hall
- ★★★★
- Cinema
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
- ★★★★½
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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
- ★★★★
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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
- ★★★½
- What to watch
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
- ★★★★½
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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
- ★★★★
- What to watch
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’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
Leigh Whannell’s new horror update Wolf Man is ruthlessly effective
Like his 2020 reboot of The Invisible Man, the Melbourne-born director’s new film pares a classic story back to its stark essentials.
- Jake Wilson
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