Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of the very best New Zealand films I’ve seen in years – I’m tempted to say one of the very best New Zealand films I’ve seen full stop [...]

Taken in combination, I’m So Excited and Julieta feel like something of a palette cleanser before the next stage in Almodovar’s career. On the one hand, I’m So Excited [...]

Park Chan-wook’s latest film, The Handmaiden, is an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ bestselling novel Fingersmith, with the action transplanted from Victorian London to the [...]

I saw Captain Fantastic the night after Toni Erdmann at the Sydney Film Festival this year. Both films have been hyped in different ways and yet while they both deal with a [...]

Having attended the Sydney Film Festival for nearly a decade now, certain themes have tended to emerge and recur from season to season, as they must at most film festivals. [...]

In many ways, Paterson plays as a companion piece and counterpoint to Only Lovers Left Alive, part of a late blooming of Jarmusch’s career that has witnessed some of the [...]

Jean-Marc Vallee’s follow-up to Wild sees Jake Gyllenhaal as Davis Mitchell, an investment banker whose world – supposedly – falls apart after his wife is suddenly [...]

From the opening shot of No Home Movie, it’s clear that Chantal Akerman’s final film will also be one of her greatest. In the foreground of a desert vista – later [...]

Rebecca Miller’s latest film plays out as a brilliant parody of what might be described as the New York comedy of letters, especially as elaborated by such walk-and-talk [...]