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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A superb performance from Amanda Seyfried, whose Ann Lee is a complex ball of vulnerability, defiance, righteousness and stillness. ” – The Nightly (AU) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 43% 2.5/5 EDIT “How to Make a Killing is also not as snappy, sharp or fun as its dark comedy promise, which gives you too much time to ponder all those thorny ethical quandaries.” – The Nightly (AU) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Instead of embracing the whole brat, The Moment pulls its punches.” – The Nightly (AU) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 2/5 EDIT “The prevailing questions that run through your head as you’re watching are, what is this, and what was it meant to be?” – The Nightly (AU) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The magnificent It Was Just An Accident's willingness to ask questions about the very nature of justice and revenge comes from a place of great generosity and humanity – and no one would have blamed Jafar Panahi if he was lacking in either.” – The Nightly (AU) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 3/5 EDIT “Even uncoupled from Bronte’s legacy, Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a bewildering mess” – The Nightly (AU) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “As a thriller, The Secret Agent is exciting and entertaining, an evocative piece of art that’s wholly lived in, plunging you into a messy and tense environment of political repression and fear.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% 4.5/5 EDIT “At the risk of seeming woo-woo, Hamnet does hold you in a metaphorical embrace, one which gives you permission to feel connected to emotions the rest of the world tells you to push down. ” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “Josh Safdie’s film commands your attention, and in casting Chalamet, one of the most talented actors of his generation who turns in an undeniably gung-ho performance, Marty Supreme earns it.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Christy is a film you want to admire rather than one you like.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “This is a film that sets out to make you feel things, but does it with seeming effortlessness, so you never feel like big moments are being signposted.” – The Nightly (AU) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s not offensive. It’s not the worst thing you’ll see all year. What it is, is boring. Mind-numbingly boring. Dozed off in the chair boring. Thinking about your supermarket shopping list boring.” – The Nightly (AU) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Twisty murder mystery that tickles not just your brain but your funny bone.” – The Nightly (AU) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Zootopia 2 is not only a family film that caters to all ages, but its jokes are so clever, it will make you feel as if the filmmakers wrote it just for you” – The Nightly (AU) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Wicked For Good lacks the dynamism and energy of its predecessor. Without the razzle-dazzle seduction and distraction double-punch of the first part’s many, big, all-in numbers, it falls flat much of the time.” – The Nightly (AU) Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Die My Love is a challenging experience that pokes and prods, makes you unsettled, gives you few answers and lets you languish in the discomfort. ” – The Nightly (AU) Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “Bugonia belongs to Jesse Plemons. The desperation, the righteousness and just the sweatiness makes Teddy both magnetic and repulsive.” – The Nightly (AU) Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “It unfolds quite leisurely, a hallmark of Kelly Reichardt whose pacing is always deliberate and contemplative, challenging viewers to sit in a moment.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 3/5 EDIT “Jeremy Allen White's performance is the best thing about the film which is otherwise a middle-of-the-road biopic with good intentions that ultimately fails to match the legacy of an incredible album and artist.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “It is, in a nutshell, a lot. Too long. Too obvious. Too much.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s Derek Cianfrance’s ability to explore the multiplicities in a person, all the good, the bad and the spaces in between, that makes his films such wonderful and complex little gems. ” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Tron: Ares is a visual and audio assault so overwhelming to the senses that this is one movie which might actually be better seen on a medium screen, rather than the biggest one you can find. Your eardrums and retinas will thank you for it later.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Your pulse will quicken, your knuckles will whiten, and you will consider the prospect of nuclear annihilation as more likely than before the viewing.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “In Paul Greengrass’s hands, The Lost Bus is high-octane action underscored by the intimacy of the human stories that are caught in the whirlwind of these greater disasters.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 31% 2/5 EDIT “Him falls apart in the second half as it becomes overwhelmed by everything it wants to say about football as a religion - and subtext very quickly becomes text.” – The Nightly (AU) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review
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