This overblown Netflix space sequel to Rebel Moon is no Star Wars opera

This overblown Netflix space sequel to Rebel Moon is no Star Wars opera

Director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 2 lacks the humour of Star Wars or the pomposity of Dune.

  • byJake Wilson

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Back to Black is a tasteless melodrama that tarnishes Winehouse’s legacy
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Back to Black is a tasteless melodrama that tarnishes Winehouse’s legacy

No one had a voice like Amy Winehouse. The film about this once-in-a-lifetime singer disappoints.

  • byGiselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Civil War began as a work of fiction,then it almost became fact

Civil War began as a work of fiction,then it almost became fact

Kirsten Dunst stars as a photojournalist in this grimly candid portrait of the US ruled by a dictator in the White House – and a society under collapse.

  • bySandra Hall
This striking film is Tomb Raider in Tuscany,and you won’t want to miss it
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This striking film is Tomb Raider in Tuscany,and you won’t want to miss it

With a cast that includes Isabella Rossellini,La Chimera is a stunning,dream-like film where pretty much anything can happen.

  • byJake Wilson
This war movie is based on actual Anzac diaries – so why doesn’t it ring true?

This war movie is based on actual Anzac diaries – so why doesn’t it ring true?

Despite all of the effort put in to the look of this ambitious production I ultimately had trouble suspending disbelief.

  • byJake Wilson
This film was a critical and festival hit. I can’t understand how

This film was a critical and festival hit. I can’t understand how

Part biopic,part polemic,Ava DuVernay’s new film Origin has an undeniably powerful moment,but it’s hardly revelatory.

  • bySandra Hall
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Godzilla x Kong promised to be the bromance to end all bromances – what went wrong?
★★
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Godzilla x Kong promised to be the bromance to end all bromances – what went wrong?

The much anticipated Godzilla x Kong:The New Empire is,unfortunately,less a battle of the giants and more of a jokey letdown.

  • byJake Wilson
It’s taken four films,but Jack Black’s boisterous panda finally grows up

It’s taken four films,but Jack Black’s boisterous panda finally grows up

The ancient Chinese warrior Po returns in Kung Fu Panda 4 and finds even animated characters can have a midlife crisis.

  • byJake Wilson
This film shows the horrific truth behind the journey of asylum seekers
★★★★
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This film shows the horrific truth behind the journey of asylum seekers

Nominated for a Best International Film Oscar,and based on real-life stories,Io Capitano is a coming-of-age story that finds hope among the desperation.

  • bySandra Hall
Sydney Sweeney as a nun? Say a prayer for this predictable fright fest

Sydney Sweeney as a nun? Say a prayer for this predictable fright fest

In Immaculate,the star of Euphoria and The White Lotus runs the gamut of sweet-natured optimism to blood-stained desperation in less than 90 minutes.

  • bySandra Hall
Kristen Stewart’s new psychological thriller is Thelma&Louise on steroids
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Kristen Stewart’s new psychological thriller is Thelma&Louise on steroids

Stewart is a woman unravelling under the pressure of a violent father and a girlfriend set on revenge in the ultra-violent black farce,Love Lies Bleeding.

  • bySandra Hall