The star-studded thriller about two authors caught in a precarious entanglement is funny in all the wrong ways. And you know what? That might not be a bad thing.

With striking imagery, a functional-enough story, and an award worthy performance from Uber the dog, it might just be David Ayer’s most inoffensive and emotionally arresting film.

Human Animals, a documentary by David Wachsman and Mhamad Babai (17 Sep, Kino Cinema Melbourne) The Jewish Council of Australia […]

Hope is as much an epic sci-fi thriller as it is a maximalist, high-concept action film. It may be repetitive, and it may oversell itself, but there are enough exhilarating, original thrills here t…

Ridley Scott seems to believe that enough self-aggrandising about his own recent filmography can convince audiences that these are good movies. This delusion has caused nothing but diminishing retu…

Ice Cream Man is a morally repugnant mess. It masquerades as a high-concept slasher when it is nothing more than an AI-infested excuse for Eli Roth to amplify his kink for extreme violence. If you’…

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a metatextual celebration of horror’s unique capability to confront and via cathartic release give comfort to its audience. Jane Schoenbrun’s psychosexual sl…

Théodore Pellerin wanders the streets of Paris in Pauline Loquès’ moving, naturalistic debut feature.

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Figuring out what to do in life is rarely a journey ventured in a straight line. In Sam Haynes’ tender coming-of-age debut feature Pools, that uncertainty is captured through a group of pleasure-se…

Disney’s so-called live-action remakes of their beloved animated films have always felt mis-marketed. For the most part, they are still heavily animated – instead of cartoon animation, they rely on…

Milly Alcock is the sole bright spot in the derivative adventure, propping up a script that does little to serve her or the titular character.

There is a particular heartbreak in seeing those you love to turn seemingly against you. Someone you thought was a pillar of love and safety becomes a wall of hate and rejection. For a young queer …

Toy Story 5 feels like a natural next step for a franchise that has proved its relevance for over three decades.

A story without answers, choosing seductive visual composition and familial convergence over the trappings of a traditional coming-of-age narrative.

Backrooms began as a creepypasta posted to a 4chan thread in 2019: a simple, slightly tilted image depicting a yellow-soaked, carpeted room that felt both uncanny and detached from reality. After year...

The Mandalorian and Grogu makes the biggest cardinal sin of all: scamming its viewership into believing they are making entertainment when these parts of Star Wars are nothing more than a piece of cap...

Curry Barker’s feature debut is a funny, horrific twist on getting exactly what you wish for

When The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossed $1.3 billion at the box office in 2023, it set a somewhat disappointing precedent for Illumination. The film’s success suggested that nostalgia, brand recognit...

Who would have guessed that the first blockbuster hit of 2026, and Amazon MGM’s biggest debut yet, would be a story about a man and a rock-shaped alien? Despite remaining culturally dominant through the Spider-Verse films, this is Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s first live-action directed feature since

Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have stayed busy since Ready or Not, helming both Scream V and Scream VI, as well as the vampire comedy Abigail. It’s been seven years since Samara...

An uneven chimp-carnage horror with aspirations of Donkey Kong–level fun Considering director Johannes Roberts’ previous effort was the thoroughly detestable film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon …

A new Christmas goodie to add to the rotation

Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary chronicles the fight against censorship in an era of Christian nationalism. The Librarians is a sobering and essential documentary detailing America’s accelerat…

Lttle Trouble Girls is a gentle meditation on the intersection of desire, faith, and adolescence. In her feature debut, Slovenian filmmaker Urška Djukić follows Lucía (Jara Sofija Ostan), a shy but…

Exit 8 is an inventive and repetitive exercise in expanding what was once a simple video game into a character-driven psychological horror. Based on the 2023 adventure game The Exit 8 by developer Kot...

Close Encounters of the Adorable Kind

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a Southern Gothic fable that combines music, history, religion, and horror: building into an imaginative, cinematic eruption. Set in 1932 in rural Mississippi, the film follo...

The Accountant 2 is a mishmash of tone that has surplus of entertaining laughs but a deficit of consistency and genre coherence. The action thriller is a direct sequel to 2016’s The Accountant, in whi...

Death of a Unicorn suffers from ‘eat the rich’ fatigue, an increasing malaise present in the popular genre of class war satire, where bluntness and broadness replace originality and bit…

A Working Man certainly requires a lot of work to sit through. Following an ex-black ops agent turned construction worker searching for his boss’s kidnapped daughter; director David Ayer reunites with...

A newly revised Princess of the People fails to rejuvenate Disney's waning kingdom.

Double trouble.

Steven Soderbergh is giving Ridley Scott a run for his money by showing how quickly a big-named director can whip up a consistent number of movies in a short space of time. After the intriguing experi...

Eat The Night explores conflict and love through the lives of siblings Apoline and Pablo, juxtaposing their obsession with an online game against Pablo’s descent into drug dealing. As their r…

A victorious and saccharine send-off to a loveable, chaotic heroine

Grand Tour poetically travels across space, time, and form to create a comedic melodrama of ethnographically sweeping proportions. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes mixes the aesthetics of the early 2...

Magic Beach is an animated portmanteau film inspired by Alison Lester’s picture book. Blending live-action and diverse animation styles, it explores children’s dreams through ten vignet…

Wolf Man is a disappointing reboot of the 1941 lycanthrope horror The Wolfman starring Lon Chaney Jr, struggling to build momentum despite a promising prologue. After an estranged father leaves his Or...

Kraven for the Sonyverse to finally end

Kahn Duncan's Top 10 Films of 2024

Reinas (Queens) is a caring, tender, and joyous Peruvian drama that celebrates those who strive for a better life. Following two young sisters, Aurora and Lucía, who reconnect with their absent father...

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