Old Glamour And Sad Pitt: Is ‘Allied’ Worth Its Own Hype?
Situated somewhere between Mr and Mrs Smith and Casablanca, Allied makes for engaging, old-fashioned entertainment.
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
On the surface, The Boy and the Beast has much in common with director Mamoru Hosoda’s previous film, Wolf Children.
Romance and Racism in A United Kingdom
A United Kingdom’s romance is a Trojan horse to disguise an interrogation of the economic and political underpinning that proliferates racism.
Always Shine (2016)
Sophia Takal’s Always Shine opens with one of the best sequences of the year.
An Alliance Divided: Rogue One’s “Star Wars Story”
Rogue One resists the mythic fairytale storytelling of its forebears while needing that same myth to justify its existence.
The Wait (2015)
Good thing The Wait has some serious formal heft, or the whole exercise would be intolerable.
Mustang (2015)
Mustang’s sisters are confined, but this is a story of their resistance as much as it is a story of their imprisonment.
Chasing Asylum and the Dearth of Australian Films About our Mistreatment of Refugees
This disturbing documentary details the ordeal facing asylum seekers who arrive on our shores, people fleeing persecution, violence and death only to face a politer brand of such injustices in “offshore detention.”
Moana (2016)
Moana wraps a Polynesian folk tale around a charming children’s film, populated with animal sidekicks and musical numbers. When these two threads are woven together well, the film sings like Disney’s best.
The World of Us: Intimacy and Betrayal in Prepubescent Friendship
The World of Us is a film of childhood friendship, and therefore it’s a film about rituals of social exclusion.
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