Jake Wilson
Jake Wilson is a film critic for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Wine at 7.30am with Gerard Depardieu: could this young star’s story be more French?
At 25, Benjamin Voisin already has the equivalent of an Oscar to his name.
- by Jake Wilson
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★★½
Toy Story prequel Lightyear reaches for the stars, but lands in a black hole
My first thought going into this Toy Story spin-off was to wish Pixar hadn’t bothered.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
Men is a horror movie about misogyny, but does the story lead us astray?
Alex Garland’s slow-burn shocker Men – the film many walked out of at Cannes – comes to Australian cinemas this week.
- by Jake Wilson
★★
Life in lockdown when you’re a pop star: not that different (or interesting), actually
Alone Together is authentic enough, but is it depressing or empowering to watch the British singer stuck at home like everybody else?
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
This Scandi horror is an ingenious shell shocker
The society pictured in this kind of film seems a little too clean and white. But as ever, there are cracks in the surface.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★
The first Indigenous filmmaker is revealed through a miraculous discovery
The documentary Ablaze’s hook is a 10-minute stretch of silent film from 1940s Melbourne that mysteriously turned up in the archives.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★½
Like Harry Potter for adults, this heroic war movie is a genuine surprise
Colin Firth and Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen star in an entertaining tale about one of the boldest plots of World War II, Operation Mincemeat.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★½
Mark Wahlberg’s strangest role yet? Father Stu is a fascinating oddity
Hollywood courts conservatives with this true story of a boxer-turned-priest that co-stars Mel Gibson and is directed by the Mad Max star’s real-life partner.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
Magical and playful, Petite Maman is a movie you need to see to believe
The new film from Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Celine Sciamma is a deceptively simple tale of two children exploring, but it holds a magical secret.
- by Jake Wilson
★★
After Yang: Kogonada’s sci-fi drama about a house android lacks punch
Colin Farrell stars in this tale of a blended family that includes Yang, an android or ‘technosapien’ who serves as their daughter’s tutor, babysitter, and protective elder brother,
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★½
You’ll be seduced by this twisting tale of love triangles in Tokyo
Oscar nominee Ryusuke Hamaguchi gives us the playful Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - but not all is as it seems in this delightful anthology movie.
- by Jake Wilson