Film & TV
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.
Film & TV
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.
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.
This ultra-violent revenge flick set in a mythical Mumbai launches Dev Patel as a fresh new director and an action man in the making.
A couple are living in their dream house with landscape gardeners and domestic servants. He is Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, and she is his wife, Hedwig.
New Australian film The Rooster is a small character study of two fragile men, and a powerful examination of isolation and moving on.
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The screen adaptation of Jane Harper’s follow-up to her bestselling novel The Dry sees Detective Aaron Falk on the trail of a possible killer after a woman goes missing in dense Victorian bushland – but it’s the movie itself that ends up lost.
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An actress cast in the role of an older woman who seduces a schoolboy and later marries him visits the couple who inspired the film and starts probing beneath the surface in this accomplished melodrama ripe with unease.
Interweaving the personal and professional, this high-stakes drama starring Adam Driver as racer turned entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari ultimately derails expectations.
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.
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An outsider penetrates the inner circle of an eccentric aristocratic family in this uneven drama that veers from posh Bacchanalian revelry to something darker.
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This heartfelt, small-budget Adelaide film with an edge follows the odd-couple road trip of an Iraqi refugee taxi driver and an elderly woman who can’t quite remember where she needs to go.
This delightfully mad Frankenstein tale combines Victorian melodrama with comic flair, visual magnificence and deep philosophical thinking.
The 2023 Adelaide Film Festival has opened with a gem of a story which unfolds in an atmosphere filled with dread that falls just shy of horror.
Set against the beautiful Alps of northern Italy, this meditative film explores friendship, adventure and the meaning of home
This stylish and taut thriller about a cop on the verge of retirement opens this year’s Italian Film Festival.
How can you be a feminist and direct a Barbie movie? That was the real intrigue behind this pink tentpole extravaganza with Greta Gerwig attached.
This richly told drama opening the Scandinavian Film Festival depicts real-life events through the story of a young Sami woman stirred to take radical action in the fight for both a river and indigenous recognition in Norway.
An Indigenous boy with supernatural powers is a gift from God in a Warwick Thornton film about the spiritual damage done by the missionaries.
This film about an apparent kidnapping in Argentina in 1980 follows the real-life case of two judicial clerks searching for justice under a military dictatorship.
