Tom Hanks' big screen job as a technological messiah
Steve Jobs would have envied Tom Hanks as a technological messiah in The Circle.
Paul Byrnes was director of the Sydney Film Festival from 1989 to 1998. He has been a film critic for The Sydney Morning Herald for 20 years. In 2007, he was awarded the Geraldine Pascall prize for critical writing, the highest award in the Australian media for critics in any genre.
Steve Jobs would have envied Tom Hanks as a technological messiah in The Circle.
Move over Barbarella, there's a new babe in space, writes Paul Byrnes.
Director David Lowery takes immense risks in his haunting new film A Ghost Story, which stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara.
Terence Davies' beautiful, searing portrait of Emily Dickinson captures her wit and melancholy.
Detour is a load of fun – bad people doing bad things to other bad people, and sometimes someone trying to do good
A documentary follows two female Finnish backpackers as they confront the seedy underside of an Australian mining town.
Jordan Peele's debut movie has the potential to unlock the gates for black participation in a genre in which they have rarely felt welcome.
A touching story of romance and adversity plays out with understatement and nuance.
Who can forget or forgive the movie versions of some of TV's most beloved shows?
An Iranian director draws on an American classic to find common ground between two flawed cultures.
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