In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review: The Wretched
The Wretched is a mediocre horror film that reuses generic tropes in a shallow yet visually engaging story…
AF French Film Festival 2020 Film Review: Notre Dame
Why would one watch Notre Dame? Maybe for its likeable characters, their comic yet touching performances, the idiosyncrasies of a French film or…
Film Review: Endings Beginnings
Endings, Beginnings explores the intricacies of restarting and the willpower to begin again…
Film Review: Burden
Burden is a naïve but noble attempt to explore the complicated nature of ingrained racism in the American South.
Film Review: The Assistant
The Assistant offers a realistic, understated and deeply unsettling look at sexual abuse in the film industry…
Film Review: Vivarium
Vivarium is a very grim picture of what parenting can really feel like, and a horrible perspective of the way people can lose what seems to be their entire lives to their children and mortgage…
Film Review: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ben Wheatley’s latest comedy-drama boasts an extensive cast of fully fleshed out and detailed characters, each with their own independent storyline. But that is, unfortunately, about all it brings to the table.
Film Review: Come To Daddy
For lovers of macabre, dark humour, Come To Daddy delivers an entertaining ride, even if…
Film Review: The Professor and the Madman
The Professor and the Madman delves into the origins of the hefty tome that is the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s a tale that’s full of more murder and mystery than you might expect…
Film Review: Honey Boy
The screenwriting debut of Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy is a real and heartfelt exploration of the complications of addiction, family and love.
Film Review: Judy & Punch
Director Mirrah Foulkes manages to deconstruct the familiar dynamic of traditional 17th Century Punch and Judy puppet shows and show the gender-based violence at the core of not only these shows but also…
Lavazza Italian Film Festival: BANGLA
Bangla is a romantic comedy that explores the difficulties when young love and religious rules conflict….
Film Review: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a strange film. It has all the shades of what you would expect from a Tarantino film…
MIFF 2019 Review: Funan
Funan is a violent and crushing reminder of the horrors of war, and how humanity has a great capacity to devalue the life of another…
Indian Film Festival Review: Widow of Silence
Known as ‘Valley of Flowers’ or ‘Heaven on Earth’, Kashmir has been the backdrop to many famous Indian films that delicately glaze their storylines over the reality of a region that Pakistan and India have been fighting to claim for years. Widow of Silence breaks this trend…
MIFF 2019 Review: Sorry We Missed You
Ricky’s world of zero-hour contracts, economic slavery, dehumanising jobs - with no time for bathroom breaks whilst driving so he’s forced to piss in a bottle - is one that will be familiar to…
MIFF 2019 Review: Buñuel In The Labyrinth of Turtles
This animation details the production of Luis Buñuel’s 1933 surrealist documentary “Las Hurdes,” which is set in an impoverished region of Spain.
Film Review: Apollo 11
”No matter where you travel, it’s always nice to get home” - Neil Armstrong 1969.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Review: The Ghost of Peter Sellers Review
This is director Peter Medak’s cathartic revisiting of his encounter with Peter Sellers on the unreleased 1973 film Ghost in the Noonday Sun, and its legacy of trauma, madness and missed opportunity…
Scandinavian Film Festival Review: One Last Deal
The story twists as more people begin to realise the value of the artwork and the tale becomes one of power and manipulation…