The best films of 2021
Does the box office count more than the Academy Awards? Here’s our verdict.
Stephen Romei
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This painting’s value soared to $450m in 12 years. Why?
This painting of Jesus Christ that may or may not have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci is the subject of a doco that is as suspenseful as the new James Bond film.
Seeing through the smoke of Black Summer
The film Burning argues that the main cause of The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 was climate change and that we need to act now. Yet a debate is not a debate when just one side speaks.
Ryan Reynolds’s art thief is a scream
I can’t think of anyone who makes me laugh as much as this actor. And his banter with The Rock in Red Notice is first-class.
Why Craig is the best Bond we’ve ever seen
Daniel Craig brings a sense of finality to No Time to Die, which speeds along like a Q-designed Aston Martin. There’s a particular calmness to this Bond, a stoic acceptance of the inevitability of life and death and everything in between.
Ill-timed western bloody but beautiful
The release date for old-fashioned revenge western The Harder They Fall is not ideal, with the fatal shooting on the set of the Alec Baldwin western Rust in the headlines.
Edgerton’s latest makes you think
The Australian actor’s performance is one of the highlights of hard-to-pin-down fantasy adventure The Green Knight.
Tall tale of Paris icon a real bolter
During the building of the famous tower Eiffel declared, ‘I want no deaths on this site’. He came close, as we learn in this ‘freely inspired’ film complete with love story.
A tantalising, tawdry tale of the turf
Anyone looking for a tip in the Melbourne Cup has two choices according to Andrew Rule’s account of racing: steer clear of it or read it and call a lawyer.
AI attempt to make Fellini film
Can AI be as good as FF? That is the intriguing question posed in the documentary Fellini Forward.
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