If Australian films are thin on the ground at the 83rd Venice Film Festival — there are two features including Russell Crowe’s music documentary What Love Builds — the festival
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La Cocina unfortunately feels like dishing out slop on fine china, which for an establishment like The Grill, doesn’t seem like a tall order to make, especially when the stressed
Where a 68-minute documentary won the Golden Bear.
… devastating but also surprisingly joyous …
Actor turned filmmaker Sarah Polley finally follows up the mindblowing Stories We Tell, this time adapting Miriam Toews' novel, inspired by a true event, which saw a group of Mennonite
...while it’s occasionally funny, and even more infrequently poignant, there are too many times when it feels flat and a bit of a hard slog...
...the thesis is murky, the intent obscure, and you can't help but think the most challenging and interesting potential parts of the story didn't make it to the screen...
"...each frame of this film is so stripped back and so powerful that it almost wouldn’t need dialogue to be compelling."
Robert Redford sees dead people. Sort of.
Philosophical auteur Terrence Malick continues to churn 'em out.