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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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
- ★★★ 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
'It's a gift': Renee Zellweger on her 24-year relationship with Bridget
Senior culture writer of The SMH and The Age, Louise Rugendyke, chats to the cast of 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy'.
- ★★★★
- 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
- Media & marketing
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
- ★★★
- Movies
Daniel Craig as a drunken letch couldn’t be less like James Bond in this steamy movie
The former 007 star plays against type in this adaptation of a William S. Burroughs novella.
- Sandra Hall
- ★★★★
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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
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Reviewed: How our critics rated the Oscar best picture nominees
From Wicked to A Complete Unknown and Anora, here are our critics’ takes on this year’s Academy Award nominated films.
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