In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review - Zootopia 2
If you love Shakira’s vocals, slow burn romances, justice, and films that encourage critical thinking, then Zootopia 2 is the film for you.
Film Review - Nuremberg
A good historical film doesn’t need to be perfectly accurate, but it does need to portray its era with enough authenticity to spark fascination and encourage viewers to learn more.
Film Review - Lurker
Lurker is an impressive independent film that presents itself as a cautionary tale for the modern and inter-connected world we live in today.
Film Review - Christmas Karma
Christmas Karma certainly isn’t boring, but not in the way you would want it to be.
Film Review - Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
Now You See Me: Know You Don’t is a magic act you’ve seen before.
Film Review - Two Prosecutors
A slow burn, but a gripping one, Two Prosecutors is among the most fascinating films you’ll see this year.
Film Review - Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good is good, not great. But that’s okay - it still manages to hold space for an extremely emotionally satisfying ending.
Film Review - Keeper
Oz Perkins’s Keeper is a film that wears its intentions on its sleeve: intimate horror wrapped in relationship anxiety, an exercise in dread that occasionally achieves something quietly memorable.
Film Review - The Running Man
Ultimately, The Running Man (2025) is a curious beast: a film that wants to critique spectacle while indulging in it, that gestures toward emotional depth but never earns it.
Film Review - Predator: Badlands
If you’re here for scale, spectacle, and a smartly realised peek into the Predator society, Badlands is a satisfying hunt.
Film Review - First Light
Melbourne loves cinema, and yet it struggles to make films of the high standard it adores. This film is an exemption; a total leap out of the water that shows filmmakers in this city that they, too, can make a movie of the same calibre.
British Film Fest 2025 Review - The Choral
If you’re into lighthearted WWI films, chorals, the beauty of Yorkshire, and Ralph Fiennes’s captivating performance then The Choral is the film for you.
Film Review - Die, My Love
Die My Love excels as a showcase for Lawrence and Pattinson, two actors at the top of their A-game.
Film Review - Happyend
Happyend takes you through the lives of five teenagers who are navigating the turbulent waters of a near-future Japan.
Film Review - After the Hunt
Fans of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Julia May Jonas’ Vladimir will enjoy After the Hunt’s refusal to do the thinking for you.
Monster Fest 2025 Film Review - Deathgasm II: Goremageddon
Where the first film offsets its crude side with a palpably warm heart, Goremageddon plays like a reunion tour that’s fun for the diehards, but very much has the air of desperation that comes with one final hurrah.
Monster Fest 2025 Film Review - Shell
Through a series of confounding creative decisions, Shell decries superficiality, yet refuses to look anything less than polished.
Film Review - Black Phone 2
Arriving a mere two years after the first film scared up a minor success at the box office, Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 leans into its lineage and then sharpens its teeth […]
Film Review - Bugonia
Bugonia refuses the safety of well-worn genre fare and instead thrives in its own damp moral fog.
Film Review - Life After
Life After (2025) lifts heavy in its turbulent journey through moral dilemmas.