In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review: Spree
My initial thoughts on the film were that it was going to be another teen movie, trying too hard to be relatable and a typical coming of age movie. I was admittedly, very wrong.
Film Review: Miss Juneteenth
Miss Juneteenth is a beautiful, warm story about the difficulty of balancing current adolescent wishes, with past adolescent regrets.
Film Review: The Resistance
As much as this is a story about the infamous mime artist Marcel Marceau, it doesn’t feel like his heroism takes over the greater purpose of the French Resistance
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.
Book Review: Elly
Elly is the debut novel from Berlin-based filmmaker and short story writer Maike Wetzel, translated to English by Lyn Marven. Eerie and lyrical, it offers a unique twist on the well-worn missing persons archetype.
Film Review: The Assistant
The Assistant offers a realistic, understated and deeply unsettling look at sexual abuse in the film industry…
Book Review: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
The book shapes itself around the urgent message that domestic violence never looks as simple as we expect…
TV Review - After Life Season 2
…as is usually the case with Gervais’ work, it’s far sweeter, and also much cruder, than anticipated.
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…
Feature - Why Tiger King is a reflection of our poor relationship with women
When I considered writing a review for Tiger King, I thought, you beauty, another opportunity to laugh at Americans. I never expected I’d end up writing this review through a feminist lens…
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…
Arts Review: Asia TOPA, Samsara
Showing as part of Arts Centre Melbourne’s acclaimed annual arts series Asia TOPA, Samsara is a beautiful exploration of the self that draws on classical and folk dance traditions from both China and India.
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.
Feature - The Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff
In Review’s Youssef Saudie chats with DJ Jazzy Jeff at his one-night show at the Night Cat in Melbourne.