In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much 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: Now 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.
Film Review - Shelby Oaks
Shelby Oaks is a fine horror film with flashes of promise, but too many inherited ideas and not enough discernible passion.
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.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - It Was Just an Accident
It swings so big that its highs are much more memorable than its lows.