Tom Cruise steps into his most unhinged role yet as Digger, in this absurd, gleefully mad climate comedy sizzling with high-art chaos.

Coyote vs. Acme sees a scrappy group of everyfolk take on the almighty corporate forces seeking to suppress them. Now where have we heard that before?

I’m no stranger to virtual reality walking tours – having traversed the likes of ye oldey Amsterdam, the Grand Palais, and phosphorescent far-flung spectacles in the cosmos. Each of these experiences is predicated on using the VR medium to recreate spaces rendered inaccessible through distance or time. The Symbol of Paris – which unpacks the…

Fifty years on, Marathon Man remains a jittery, violent and deliciously paranoid thriller – with one dentist appointment nobody will forget.

Patrick Brammall and Maxine Peake star in this superbly acted and absolutely riveting drama about a father who thinks his missing daughter may still be alive after a mysterious phone call

With a tiny budget and six days, Anthony Frith directed a film for the studio behind Sharknado – and then made Mockbuster, a documentary about the experience

Kristen Stewart makes a wildly bold directorial debut with this fractured, feverish, and visually audacious portrait of trauma, memory, and survival.

Harvey Zielinski is superb as director, writer and star of his feature debut – playing not one, but two roles

In Hollywood’s hands this would be a pulse-pounding thriller, but Maddelin McKenna’s lithe feature debut is all about street-level authenticity

Philippa Northeast is entertaining as Sybylla Melvyn in this adaptation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel that has more erotica and a more pronounced love triangle

Despite the movie’s stacked cast, an oddly threadbare storyline and comedy that targets low-hanging fruit leaves the laughs few and far between

Discover what’s coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video and others in August, including new Ted Lasso, My Brilliant Career and Masters of the Universe

Compelling debut feature of James Robert Woods – who wrote, directed, produced, shot and edited it – keeps dialogue centre stage

This season’s timeline jumps ahead three years, taking the audience back to the eternal question of ‘will they or won’t they?’

From meditative documentaries to nerve-shredding horror and brilliantly awkward comedy, here’s some of 2026’s unmissable films.

A beheading in the outback kicks off this terrific six-part series, in which the greatest pleasure is not solving the crime but learning about the peculiar locals

The six-part Australian series about intern doctors at an underfunded hospital is missing an essential ingredient

Hilariously performed, cleverly scored, and brilliantly executed, The Invite is an unmissable comedy-drama.

Australian director Natalie Erika James demonstrates the power of movies as vessels for cultural commentary in this intoxicatingly creepy production

Games don’t have to be about scoring, succeeding, exploring, advancing, conquering, winning. They don’t have to tell stories. They don’t need characters or enemies to overcome. Sometimes acts of playi...

Discover what’s coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video and others in July, including The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Sheep Detectives and Christopher Nolan’s back catalogue

Robin Williams’ cross-dressing comedy seemed destined to feel dated. But critic Luke Buckmaster found a much smarter and warmer classic than he expected.

Robin Hood enters his sad dad era in a grim, mud-caked reinvention that drags a beloved legend through hellish darkness.

He’s one of cinema’s most famous alien whisperers. But which Spielberg extraterrestrial adventure reigns supreme?

People love a good bureaucracy satire – but while this six-part series is tonally pleasant, it’s not belly-laugh material

More than 40 years on, Paris, Texas remains one of cinema’s most moving, mysterious and profoundly human journeys.

Perhaps it sounds a little hyperbolic to describe ArtsQuest VR as an experience that reminded me of the simple pleasures of standing before a painting. And maybe that’s weird, given the galleries them...

Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behind

With 248 films to choose from, highlights include The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus and a ‘psychosexual horror’ starring Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson

Discover what’s streaming on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video and more this month, including Wuthering Heights, Marty Supreme and Bugonia

Emmanuel Macron calls for a social media ban for children under 15, a monthly screen-free day for all, and urges high school students to switch off their phones.

This empty-calorie Netflix flick, about a steely woman being hunted by a scary local in the Australian wilderness, is shot like a Mountain Dew commercial

James Litchfield’s dark, well-paced film about an isolated pair’s imaginary friend, blends genres and emotional registers

The Stranger is a great book adaptation, pulling off several difficult things – from sparse prose to philosophical weight – with striking style and force.

The Deb has taken just $237 a screen in its second week – but it is an enjoyable addition to the Australian movie musical pantheon, which is more flops than hits

Australian actor says the death of her mother in 2024 inspired the new direction

Creator AP Pobjoy’s series, starring Claudia Karvan and Luke Wiltshire, sees a young trans man make a supernatural discovery in his childhood home

The third season of Netflix’s remake has a spritely energy and an appealing fresh-faced cast, but it lacks what made the long-running original so compelling

Mike Nichols’ 1966 adaptation of Edward Albee’s septic drama helped cement the play in the zeitgeist – where it has remained for the past six decades

It didn’t take long for immersive video creators to cotton on to the following equation: high-altitude shots + picturesque environments = irresistible spectacle. Before VR and MR headsets, audiences w...

The Emmy-nominated crime comedy swaps chilly Tasmania for the sticky Top End – and all its croc-related misadventures

Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war