Cinema
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Review
Forget the macho men, Jodie Comer is the real star of The Bikeriders
Tom Hardy and Austin Butler bring the beef as members of a Chicago bikie gang but Comer supplies the narration and is the main reason to see the film.
- by Sandra Hall
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Once Were Warriors director returns with ‘raw and vicious’ The Convert
Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori’s story about a lay preacher in New Zealand stuck between two warring Maori tribes.
- by Sandra Hall
His crime shocked France. This film reveals why his wife stayed silent
A Silence unpacks the complicity that allowed a celebrated lawyer to commit horrific acts. For its director, it was also a reckoning.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
With Megalopolis, Coppola makes Baz Luhrmann seem like a shy introvert
Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious sci-fi drama has had its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
- by Garry Maddox
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Cinema revenues are collapsing, and Australia is no exception. But that doesn’t mean we’ve fallen out of love with the movies.
- by Karl Quinn
Thrice Were Warriors: Director wraps trilogy with The Convert
The figure of the Maori warrior was central to Lee Tamahori’s first film, and his latest. But is he at peace with it at last?
- by Karl Quinn
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