Arts & Entertainment Reviews
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Good Time
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Good Time packs awful choices, obscene selfishness, a cast of pitiable characters, and constantly sky-rocketing tension into its almost manic narrative. -
raven: the night is dark, the night is silent, the night is bright, the night is loud
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the night is dark... the new record from Tangents double bassist Peter Hollo as raven is not so much about the ever-changing nighttime, as it is the night. -
Final Portrait
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Final Portrait is a movie that reveals the inner workings of the creative process; the self-doubt, the uncertainty and the drive and vision that comes and goes at will. -
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid
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With The Kid, Smith arguably proves that abstraction does not have to be overly intellectual, and pensiveness can be extroverted. -
Golden Vessel: Right/Side EP
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The timing of the release is excellent as it begins a bit cold and dark but gradually develops a warm and uplifting sound in its second half, mirroring Sydney’s climate at the moment. -
The Dancer
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La Danseuse (The Dancer) is a dramatised picture of the life of an aspiring young artist in her journey to create a never-seen-before opus -
Ghosts
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Written and set in 1881, the Henrik Ibsen classic, Ghosts, once a contemporary piece of writing, it is now historical, yet surprisingly relevant and familiar at the same time. -
Moses Sumney: Aromanticism
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Mixing folk, jazz, soul, and gospel into a brilliant, miasmic whole, Moses Sumney has created thirty-five minutes of music that feels both ageless and thoroughly modern. -
Sydney Fringe: Sunday in the Park with George
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The Little Triangle company - on a stretched budget, set inside a small black box - The Depot - delivered a commanding performance. -
Hundred Waters: Communicating
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Hundred Waters are earnest almost to a fault, delivering cosy and welcoming electronic pop that is a shoulder to cry on and a reassuring word. -
I Am Not Your Negro
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What makes I Am Not Your Negro special is that it resurrects the voice of an often unsung hero. -
Lip Service
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In the hands of consummately talented actors and a powerful director (Nicole Buffoni), the gathered were suspended on a thrilling journey set in the 1960's. -
Neil Young: Hitchhiker
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Hitchhiker is a valuable document - more music from the most fertile period of one of rock music's most enduring voices. -
It
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The prospect of adapting Stephen King's gargantuan and beloved novel raises the question of whether it's really possible to make a horror epic for the screen. -
LCD Soundsystem: American Dream
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Lyrically, despite the heavenly idyll of the cover, this is some of the band's most harrowing stuff. -
Girls Trip
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It can be overwhelmingly silly (and very fun), but Girls Trip has a lot more going on than just sex jokes and drunken antics. -
God's Own Country
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God’s Own Country is a brooding romance between two young men who initially seem like unlikely lovers until they eventually fall in love. -
Modern Jesus
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Modern Jesus keeps up the form you would expect at The Depot. It is a production comprising equal measure of edginess, realism and dramatic creative licence. -
Grizzly Bear: Painted Ruins
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On their fifth studio album, for the first time, it feels like Grizzly Bear are repeating themselves. -
Hir
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With gender and sexuality at the forefront of the mainstream consciousness now more than ever, the searing stage comedy Hir could not be more relevant.