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Ocean with David Attenborough: All aboard for must-sea doco
This documentary is the least beautiful film the British biologist, natural historian, conservationist, broadcaster and filmmaker has made. This is intentional.
Dundee has been sanitised but it’s still a good movie
Some frames involving Mick and a cross-dresser are among those that have been deleted from Crocodile Dundee: The Encore Cut, the restored and edited 4K cut of Australia’s most commercially successful film.
Tina review — a tested format lifted with warmth
Samoan-born Miki Magasiva’s bittersweet debut follows a grieving teacher and a ragtag choir on a redemptive journey.
Hysteria review — a tense exploration of immigration
In Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay’s shrewdly-plotted film an accidental Koran burning on a film set ignites a taut ideological thriller.
‘I ended up with no sex and a penguin’
Steve Coogan is at his wry best in The Penguin Lessons, a comedy-drama set on the eve of the 1976 Argentinian coup.
‘The battle scenes in Warfare are brutal and merciless’
This visceral film follows a group of US Navy SEALs over the course of one day in Ramadi in western Iraq and is based on the memories of the soldiers who were there.
Inside a journalist’s nightmare story of detention
As I watched Richard Roxburgh’s understated performance, I wondered if the internal strength Peter Greste needed to survive was one of the traits that made him an award-winning war correspondent.
The Count of Monte Cristo review – an absolute pleasure
This spirited adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel is almost three hours long yet passes in a heartbeat.
Small Things Like These review — trouble in the convent
Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s now-notorious Magdalene Laundries in this quietly powerful adaptation of Claire Keegan’s 2021 novella.
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