Film & TV
Grief, loss and Daisy Ridley deliver freshness to an Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund movie about the undead who rise up after a military catastrophe wipes out Tasmania.
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This stunning documentary from Aotearoa New Zealand invites viewers to join Indigenous elders on a five-day canoe trip down the first river in the world to be granted legal personhood.
French director Jacques Audiard has set to music an extraordinary story about a transgender narco boss in corrupt Mexico City who becomes the woman of his dreams, helped by a lawyer looking for a purpose.
An arthouse satire about the male gaze becomes a boisterous Russian black comedy that transforms into a slyly charming story about a smart sex worker who falls for the wrong dream.
Director Kriv Stenders keeps the tension high in this gripping film about the ordeal of jailed foreign correspondent Peter Greste which had its world premiere at the gala opening of the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival.
This film about model and photographer Lee Miller, who followed the US military to the frontlines of World War II, is messy but embodies some hard truths.
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In a love story set to music, the Joker puts on a happy face and goes to court for committing mass murder on live TV.
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Inspired by a true story, this romanticised tribute to the humanity of a crew of wartime submariners celebrates Italian cultural identity.
The Juice is loose in this quirky return of the original ghostbuster and freelance poltergeist, Beetlejuice, who is back from the dead, again, to help the next generation.
More thoughtful than just another story of robots running amok, this film about a family’s relationship with next-gen AI comes with a message about the perils of modern life.
A luminous Blake Lively leads a melodrama that steers a fine line in its glossy approach to intergenerational domestic violence.
Russell Crowe plays an ex-homicide cop struggling with memory loss who is hauled back to re-examine evidence from a brutal murder case that he helped to solve, putting a man on death row.
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A prison warden’s obsession with a high-security inmate becomes a claustrophobic tumble into darkness in this Danish psychodrama from the maker of The Guilty.
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The opening track with Annie Lennox belting out ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’ is the key to understanding this bizarre and mysterious film. The answer? Everybody’s looking for something.
Shakespeare’s prophecies, bloody rivalries, murder and hauntings are given a contemporary militaristic edge in this London production of Macbeth, starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma.
When nature is disturbed, it finds ways to fight back in acclaimed director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s strange and immersive fable set in a village outside Tokyo.
Intellectual titans CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud pit God and faith against reason and psychoanalysis at an imagined meeting shortly before Freud’s death in 1939.
The sixth Omen story loops back in time to the 1970s in the lead-up to the birth of Damien, who unleashes the forces of Satan and wreaks havoc on earth.
Billion-dollar Barbie sprinkled fairy dust across cinemas worldwide just as the Hollywood strike ground production to a halt, but there were plenty of other screen gems to savour in 2023. Penelope Debelle looks back at the highlights – and reveals her most adored film of the year.
Music and love lifted Bradley Cooper’s first outing as director and star, A Star is Born, to a cultural moment. In Maestro, he elevates the theme to magnificence.
We may be none the wiser about Napoleon the man, but Ridley Scott’s mastery in mounting battlefield extravaganzas is unsurpassed.
An outsider penetrates the inner circle of an eccentric aristocratic family in this uneven drama that veers from posh Bacchanalian revelry to something darker.
