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Keanu Reeves’ trigger-happy hero is one of the best roles of his career
John Wick: Chapter 4 is a lively tour of hell, a nearly three-hour epic that is stately, operatic and full of arty flourishes.
- by Jake Wilson
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★★★
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A gleeful Sam Neill adds some magic to this curious case of ghouls and goblins
The Portable Door may be the world’s first science fantasy movie about data harvesting, but it feels a bit like a lost episode of Dr Who.
- by Paul Byrnes
★★★
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A chance meeting sets stage for love story spanning two decades
The natural performances in the new Australian film Of An Age keep the love story between two men alive, but it’s the script that lets them down.
- by Sandra Hall
Why this Aussie film about 90s suburbia has audiences raving
Of An Age renders ’90s suburbia into a site of romance and longing and offers Australia its own entry to a potent sub-genre of queer cinema.
- by Jared Richards
From the Archives, 1933: In the Wake of the Bounty
Featuring the debut of Errol Flynn, In the Wake of the Bounty was also notable for director Charles Chauvel’s struggle to release his film uncut in Australian cinemas.
- by Staff reporter
★★★½
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An evil Helen Mirren helps put the fun back into this CGI superhero spectacle
Shazam! Fury of the Gods plays like a junior variation on Deadpool, with goofiness standing in for the obscenities and gallows humour.
- by Sandra Hall
‘How did I even get here?’: Lucy Liu reflects on 30 years in Hollywood
The A-lister is in Shazam! Fury of the Gods doing what she does best: kicking ass on the big-screen.
- by Robert Moran
★★★★
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This gruesome slasher prequel is a perverse twist on Cinderella
A troubled young woman rebels against her stern parents in the hysterical Pearl, Ti West’s follow-up to his movie about a 1970s porn shoot gone wrong.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Remaking a masterpiece is brave and foolish, but Bill Nighy is brilliant
Living is lush and richly textured, even if it was never going to top the original - previously voted one of the greatest films of all time.
- by Paul Byrnes
Academy Awards are about to get serious about diversity
There will be new standards that best picture nominees will have to meet next year.
- by Garry Maddox