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Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America.

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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Gonçalo Waddington plays a man running away from his fiancee in Grand Tour.

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
Bridget Jones has moved onto a younger man. She’s not alone.

‘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
Senior culture writer of The SMH and The Age, Louise Rugendyke, chats to the cast of 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy'.
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'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'.

Chloe (Callina Liang) is still grieving over the unexplained death of best friend in Presence.

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
Where to look?: John Magaro as Geoffrey Mason in Munich.

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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Daniel Craig, left, is cast as William Lee, a Burroughs alter ego and heroin addict.

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
Nicole Kidman in Babygirl

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
Angelina Jolie plays doomed opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.

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
From top left: The Substance; Conclave; Anora; Emilia Perez; Wicked; and The Brutalist.

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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