Arts & Entertainment Reviews
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The Light Between Oceans
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There is all the time in the world. And slowly, slowly The Light Between Oceans builds into a dramatic and touching trilogy of choices and consequences. -
Hell or High Water
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Part outlaw Western, part crime caper, part road movie, part buddy comedy, Hell or High Water is a surprising and endlessly endearing piece of genre filmmaking. -
Weyes Blood: Front Row Seat to Earth
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Weyes Blood has long been a cult artist, but in its honesty and timeless sound, Front Row Seat to Earth feels like a major breakthrough. -
The Neon Demon
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No matter how it's dressed up, there's no pleasure in seeing women abused, tortured, and pitted against one another. -
All Our Exes Live in Texas: "The Devil's Part" Tour
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All Our Exes Live in Texas have had an impressive few years since they combined their individual talents and formed the group. -
Boys in the Trees
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The brilliantly original new Australian film Boys in the Trees takes an absorbing and disarming look at where our childhood fantasies go when the nagging knock of adulthood interrupts the reverie. -
Montaigne: "Because I Love You" Tour
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Taking to the stage of Oxford Art Factory in front of a packed out room of enthusiastic fans, Montaigne appeared very much in her element. -
Joe Cinque's Consolation
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Based on Helen Garner's 2004 non-fiction book of the same name, Joe Cinque’s Consolation sets to illuminate the disturbing and perplexing crime that rocked a nation. -
Café Society
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Café Society mellows into a new more relaxed Allen, with less angst, with more wisdom and more heart. -
Julieta
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It's a far-reaching film about the burden of womanhood, but it's also an achingly personal and elliptical tale marked by reflexiveness, recursion, coincidence and ambiguity. -
Cymbeline
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Seeing the new production of Cymbeline - one of The Bard's most often overlooked works - at Marrickville's Depot Theatre obliterates those memories of readings of Shakespeare marred by either passionlessness or grandiloquent earnestness as it brings the fire, wit, humour and sorrow of the play to life. -
The Girl on the Train
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The Girl on the Train, based on Paula Hawkins' best-selling novel of the same name, crafts a scintillating and absorbing mystery story. -
Julia Jacklin: Don't Let the Kids Win
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As you listen to this incredibly beautiful and mature record, it becomes apparent that Don't Let the Kids Win is a fight against nostalgia - boldly insisting on moving forward. -
Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos
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Let Them Eat Chaos is a portentous warning that sounds like a thousand sirens; When Kate Tempest speaks, you listen. -
Solange: A Seat at the Table
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The simultaneously expansive and focused A Seat at the Table feels like the ultimate realisation of all the potential she has shown in the past. -
Bon Iver: 22, A Million
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The enigmatically named 22, A Million is somehow both ramshackle and elegantly baroque in its construction. Harsh, sometimes glitchy electronics rub up against pearlescent piano leads and ringing guitars. -
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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No one mixes fear and fairytales with the same balance as Tim Burton, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is no exception. -
Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
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Hval’s music is both confrontational and profoundly abstract, though Blood Bitch may be her most direct and uncluttered work yet. -
The Drover's Wife
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Purcell has managed to turn The Drover’s Wife written by Henry Lawson into a confronting production that remains true to its bush roots yet reflects modern opinions of colonial times. -
Life, Animated
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Owen Suskind, 23, is a man who is grappling with autism. Life, Animated is his story.