International: UK, NZ & Australia Reviews
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 4K Review: Wow. Wow. Wow.
Peter Weir's magical mystery tour from 1975 looks like it was released today in the incredible-looking Criterion Collection 4K edition. This is why Australia is called "Oz."
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS Review: A Foxy-a••ed Clever Eruption of Suppressed Rage
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has written - either in their head or possibly on virtual or real paper - a letter that they never sent; the kind of letter that lets out all the anger...
IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS Review: Liam Neeson Tries to Retire His Particular Skills Again
Liam Neeson, Colm Meaney, Ciaran Hinds, and Kerry Condon star in a film directed by Robert Lorenz.
STING Review: Kiah Roache-Turner's Monster Spider Movie Delivers Thrills, Chills And Shrills
On a cold, snowy, blustery winter night in New York a meteor pierces the sky, hurtling towards an apartment building in the city. The size of a walnut it punches through a window and then the roof of a dollhouse...
Now Streaming: NO BLADE OF GRASS, Anarchy in the U.K.
Cornel Wilde's post-apocalyptic vision of John Christopher's novel is heavy-handed, hyper-hysterical, and highly entertaining. Now streaming on Criterion Channel.
RENEGADE NELL Review: All About the Avatars
Sally Wainwright creates a new action-comedy-fantasy adventure series about the highwaymen era in England, starring Louisa Harland and Adrian Lester, debuting on Disney Plus.
FEMME Review: Nail-Biting, White-Knuckle Queer Thriller
Jules is a celebrated and loved drag artist in London. One night, they are the victim of a horrific homophobic attack that nearly destroys their life and career. Broken, Jules no longer performs and spends their days playing video games...
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL Review: Walking a Tightrope Between Simple Dread and Outrageous, Visceral Horror
It’s 1977 and TV talk show host Jack Delroy’s (David Dastmalchian) career is on the skids. Once a titan of late-night TV, the tragic death of his wife has left him a shell of his former self, and his ratings...
YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME Review: When A Stranger Knocks
Relying upon the kindness of strangers (who are very strange indeed) on a dark and stormy night (when it feels like the wind might blow the world down) is a good recipe for a horror film. Add in a somewhat...
Rotterdam 2024 Review: KING BABY Is A Royal Triumph
King Baby, by directors Kit Redstone and Arran Shearing, could've gone wrong in so many ways. The film is a send-up of masculine power plays, toxic machismo and the thin veneer of social niceties that hide volcanic violence waiting to...
SXSW 2024 Review: BIRDEATER, This Vivisection Of A Toxic Relationship Will Make You Squirm
An Australian stag party goes off the rails when the details of the happy couple's relationship get spilled during a night of heavy drinking and drugs in Jack Clark & Jim Weir's Birdeater, making its international debut at this year's...
SXSW 2024 Review: THE MOOGAI, An Examination Of Indigenous Trauma Let Down By Flaccid Script
An Aboriginal demon steps in for the real-life enduring trauma of Australia’s “Stolen Generations” in Jon Bell’s debut feature, The Moogai. Government sponsored assimilation programs ripped tens of thousands of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed with white...
THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN Review: Daft, Silly, Madcap Adventures
Noel Fielding and Hugh Bonneville star in the absurd British comedy series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
STOPMOTION Review: Beautiful, Disturbing Journey Into Creation as Self-Destruction
Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, and Tom York star in Robert Morgan's cross-genre horror movie.
MONOLITH Review: Thriller Becomes a Creeping Nightmare
Lily Sullivan stars in director Matt Vesely's intelligent and exquisitely-mounted sci-fi thriller, written by Lucy Campbell.
Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE PARAGON, No-Budget Comedy About A Psychic Loser Is A Winner
Micheal Duignan's The Paragon might be his debut feature, but he has a storied career as a director of music videos, short comedy movies, television soaps and episodes of the new Power Rangers series. Somehow, this eclectic blend of...
Rotterdam 2024 Review: FLATHEAD, Australian Pastoral
Australian filmmaker Jaydon Martin blurs the lines between documentary and narrative storytelling, offering a lyrical exploration of life's complexities through the lens of a blue-collar community in rural Australia.
HOW TO HAVE SEX Review: When The Party Brutally Stops
While partying hard and uninhibited lust is hardly only the arena of the young, there is something particular about how those about 25 years old and younger indulge themselves that is both weirdly admirable, since their bodies can bounce back...
DARIO ARGENTO PANICO Review: One for the Fans, And Only the Fans
Biodocs are always in danger of becoming hagiographies, especially when their subjects participate in the film and are offered the opportunity to self-mythologize. They’re also always in danger of closing themselves off to any viewers not already familiar with their...
Rotterdam 2024 Review: HEAD SOUTH Goes In Two Directions
In Jonathan Ogilvie's coming-of-age picture Head South we follow a schoolboy in Christchurch, New Zealand, around 1980, who desperately tries to be cool. He fakes selling weed, he fakes playing bass guitar, he's basically fantasising his way into being cool...
