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His crime shocked France. This film reveals why his wife stayed silent
A Silence unpacks the complicity that allowed a celebrated lawyer to commit horrific acts. For its director, it was also a reckoning.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
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We cross these roads every day, but what lies beneath the bitumen?
A new exhibition at ACMI follows long-hidden Indigenous pathways to create the ultimate Australian road movie.
- by Andrew Stephens
‘Bigger than Barbie’ Italian movie wins Sydney Film Festival competition
There’s Still Tomorrow has a surprising light touch for a film about a woman trapped in a toxic marriage.
- by Garry Maddox
With Megalopolis, Coppola makes Baz Luhrmann seem like a shy introvert
Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious sci-fi drama has had its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.
- by Garry Maddox
Moviegoers are vanishing. But where are they going?
Cinema revenues are collapsing, and Australia is no exception. But that doesn’t mean we’ve fallen out of love with the movies.
- by Karl Quinn
Thrice Were Warriors: Director wraps trilogy with The Convert
The figure of the Maori warrior was central to Lee Tamahori’s first film, and his latest. But is he at peace with it at last?
- by Karl Quinn
★★★½
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Pixar is in the pits. Is Inside Out 2 the hit it desperately needs?
The original was a sophisticated and charming hit, but Riley’s emotions are now in danger of being drowned out by the sequel’s hustle and bustle.
- by Sandra Hall
Exorcism movies are everywhere. Why are we obsessed with them?
Fifty years since The Exorcist themes of demonic possession still loom large, with Russell Crowe starring in yet another exorcism film.
- by Jake Wilson
Kevin Spacey says he was ‘handsy’ with men
The actor denied that he had groped people, and said he instead preferred the term “caressed”.
- by Anita Singh
It’s been a terrible year for cinema, but one genre is holding strong
Why are these smaller-scale movies attracting decent audiences while major studio films flop?
- by Nell Geraets
★★★★
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The Watchers is proof Ishana Night Shyamalan has her father’s talent
Starring Dakota Fanning, this supernatural horror shows Ishana has inherited a taste for tinkering with the unseen and incomprehensible.
- by Sandra Hall