This whole film – the directorial debut of Mark Leonard Winter – is a slow burn, with themes of loss, loneliness, regret and shame. The first half poses lots of questions. The second half answers most of them.
There is not one scene shot inside Auschwitz. We do not see one camp inmate. Instead we hear what is going behind that wall: dogs barking, gunshots, orders delivered, people screaming.
This psychological drama has been nominated for best original script and draws on a real scandal. There’s so much to unpack. Every scene is there for a reason.
‘Hell no!” That’s the unofficial anthem of the latest incarnation of The Color Purple, a musical drama that draws on its Broadway counterpart and Stephen Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel.
Kevin Maher’s take-down of Christopher Nolan is a lot of fun to read, and perhaps that – comedy – is his intention.
All Of Us Strangers is a mysterious, absorbing, slightly surreal film about love, in all its complexity, beauty and sadness.
In Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning film, starring Sandra Hüller and Samuel Theis, a marriage and a death are subject to courtroom scrutiny.
The final 45 minutes of this film are worth four stars. The three leads are brilliant. Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph each won a Golden Globe on January 8. Dominic Sessa is an actor to watch.
Director Michael Mann on the private life of Enzo Ferrari, accusations of cultural appropriation, casting controversy and the $US10m budget to build, race and wreck cars.
The real story is a human one: a man, Enzo Ferrari, with an engineer’s mind and a philanderer’s heart and the two not-to-be-crossed women in his life.
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