Review
★★½
Movies
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
Latest
★★★
See & Do
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
★★★★
Cinema
A star is born in this joyous gay Jane Austen reboot
There’s sex, fighting, love, drugs, drinking and all-night parties in Fire Island, a new rom-com that offers an appealing twist on Pride and Prejudice.
- by Paul Byrnes
★★★★
Cinema
Two-time Oscar winner’s superb new drama is not without controversy
The Iranian filmmaker’s works have no equal, but they also give us a very pungent sense of the forces at work in Iranian society.
- by Paul Byrnes
★★★½
Arts
Jurassic World’s rampaging climax almost makes up for the hare-brained plot
Dinosaur sausages, anyone? Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum are together again, but the humans are quickly overshadowed in this sixth film.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★
Movies
Terence Davies calls Benediction his best movie. I beg to differ
Despite outstanding performances, the British director’s story about wartime poet Siegfried Sassoon is very much a curate’s egg.
- by Paul Byrnes
★★★★
Arts
Sex and sensibility: Star-studded drama is a long way from Downton Abbey
Colin Firth, Olivia Colman and Australia’s Odessa Young star in a surprising take on the upstairs/downstairs story.
- by Sandra Hall
★★
See & Do
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
★★★½
M magazine
Unplug your brain and go with the biff in the laughably silly Interceptor
Elsa Pataky stars in author Matthew Reilly’s high-energy, breathless action thriller with more narrative drive than his DeLorean.
- by Paul Byrnes
From the Archives, 1990: Scorsese’s Goodfellas a masterwork
In 1990, The Age’s Tom Ryan reviewed Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, describing the movie as a superbly crafted, densely textured and richly provocative masterwork. Ray Liotta, star of Goodfellas, has died aged 67.
- by Tom Ryan
Think adult cartoons are silly? Let me change your mind
The list of television comedies that have dealt with the realities of the working class is too short, and this one doesn’t pull punches.
- by Rebecca Shaw