Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals leaves you wanting more
An intriguing drive into upper middle-class suburbia takes a side trip to a dangerous stretch of highway.
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Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall is the author of two novels (A Thousand Small Wishes and Beyond the Break), two histories of the Australian television industry (Supertoy and Turning On, Turning Off) and Tabloid Man, a biography of Ezra Norton, the man who established Truth and The Daily Mirror. She was film critic at The Bulletin magazine prior to joining The Sydney Morning Herald in 1996.
When Huppert gets bored, anything can happen
There's no doubting director Paul Verhoeven's drive to provoke. He was responsible for Sharon Stone's revelatory moment in Basic Instinct.
Infatuation puts right and wrong to the test in American Honey
American Honey's premise may be hard to believe, but it's based on fact.
The good, the bad and the consequences
This western's characters travel on in your imagination long after the credits have rolled.
Whirlwind cultural tour
A classy cast boosts the action is it races from Florence to Venice and Istanbul in the latest Dan Brown book adaptation.
Road to growing up veers into the woods
A story about the consequences of bullying is wrapped in an other-worldly package in Boys in the Trees.
Key voice missing in film on Joe Cinque murder
It's billed as a book adaptation, but a film on a student's killing of her boyfriend takes a far more dispassionate line on the case.
Tracing how priceless artworks were saved in wartime
Art's binding power to bring nations together is illustrated in this look at the Louvre in wartime.
Deepwater Horizon gets devastating essentials right
Deepwater Horizon captures the scale of the 2010 oil-rig disaster and the panic on board as its safety devices failed.
Denzel Washington heads Magnificent Seven in fresh take on a classic
The action is sharply choreographed and the ending uncompromising in this reboot of The Magnificent Seven.
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