In recent years, the lives of Aboriginal people have featured in some of the best films made in this country, including a large number created by Indigenous directors and cinematographers. David Stratton names the films you must see.
We look back over some of the films awarded a perfect score by the legendary film critic during his 33 years writing for The Weekend Australian.
In his final review for The Weekend Australian, David Stratton shares his take on Woody Allen’s 50th and likely last film – one the critic describes as ‘one of his best’.
Irish stars Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan are a married couple confronting a terrifying prospect in Australian Garth Davis’s Foe.
A journalist is tipped off about the existence of a mysterious brick, a jet-black object that is covered with strange hieroglyphics, in Adelaide-made drama Monolith.
Tom drives furiously away from a house in which a crime has occurred. He has blood on his hands – something dire has obviously happened, but the viewer is kept in the dark.
An unsuccessful actor is behind in rent when she is invited to the home of a powerful movie mogul, who turns out to be a producer who hews to the predatory Harvey Weinstein casting couch school.
The jealous girlfriend of a popular artist finds a way to make herself the centre of attention in Norwegian film Sick of Myself, which questions our social media obsession.
If this film is to be judged on how convincingly it puts forward its case, it wins hands down. I’ll be happy to review film from the No camp, if there is one.
You may not like the kind of art that Nam June Paik created but the artist emerges in this documentary as a visionary who began a new art movement.
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