Review
Psycho star’s son directs Nicolas Cage in this creepy new horror movie
Director Osgood Perkins, the son of the star of Psycho, mixes familiar scary elements in Longlegs, but adds something extra.
- by Jake Wilson
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★★★½
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There’s no flying cow, but this Twister sequel is still highly ridiculous
Forget the sexual tension, Twisters is at its best when Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones are dodging an inventive variety of heavy objects.
- by Sandra Hall
★★
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Emma Stone returns for another wacky film, but sadly this is no Poor Things
If the filmmaker’s much-praised, award-winning Poor Things was the main meal, Kinds of Kindness is the offcuts.
- by Robert Moran
★★
What to watch
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s NASA comedy fails to take off
As a marketing whiz and an astronaut, the stars have zero chemistry in the wildly overextended and flat rom-com Fly Me to the Moon.
- by Jake Wilson
★★½
What’s on
Sorry, but Kevin Costner’s new western is both incomplete and dull
The Oscar winner has returned to directing after 20 years, but Horizon – set to be one of four – is exposition-heavy and a three-hour-long trek to nowhere.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
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Forget the macho men, Jodie Comer is the real star of The Bikeriders
Tom Hardy and Austin Butler bring the beef as members of a Chicago bikie gang but Comer supplies the narration and is the main reason to see the film.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★★
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Who needs sex and drugs? This rock ’n’ roll doco still compels
This telling of the Midnight Oil story is a headlong trip through 45 years of social, political and pop music history.
- by Sandra Hall
Nicole Kidman deserves more than this insipid Netflix romcom
The Oscar winner co-stars with Zac Efron in the sort of formulaic romance that is fast becoming a streaming staple.
- by Karl Quinn
★★★
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Celine Dion documentary starts slow, on its way to a cruel ending
Who is the legendary singer without her voice? It’s a possibility that echoes throughout the slightly unwieldy I Am: Celine Dion.
- by Brodie Lancaster
★★★★
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Once Were Warriors director returns with ‘raw and vicious’ The Convert
Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori’s story about a lay preacher in New Zealand stuck between two warring Maori tribes.
- by Sandra Hall
★★½
Movies
World domination, sure, but how well does Gru settle into suburbia?
The anti-hero’s family has expanded in Despicable Me 4, and they enter a form of witness protection.
- by Jake Wilson