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Nadine Whitney
Tomatometer-approved critic
Nadine Whitney is a freelance critic writing from Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-chair of The Australian Film Critics Association. Her focus is on women directed films.
Movies reviews only
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Oddity (2024) |
Oddity is a new gothic horror classic marking the emergence of an undeniable talent. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jul 22, 2024
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The Convert (2023) |
Tamahori’s commitment to showing authentic Māori culture on the screen is where The Convent finds its footing. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) |
Graceful, elegant, tactile, moving poetry by Raven Jackson. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is sense memory, but it is also an ode to how life ebbs and flows. Unmissable. - The Curb
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Sujo (2024) |
Violence is the bedrock of Sujo’s life. Empathy, love, and forgiveness is the soil above it. Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero plant seeds of life in the devastating Mexican drama. - The Curb
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Men (2022) |
Men is unlikely to find any kind of broad audience, but for those who do see it there is a chance the film will never quite leave them. - The Curb
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Longlegs (2024) |
Longlegs is queasy, terrifying, and inexorable. A perpetual nightmare machine. - The Curb
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| Posted Jul 17, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
Twisters is the kind of tent pole action film to get audiences buzzing. With a confident new generation stepping in to keep the spirit of daring and meteorological adventure alive and thriving – Twisters is a winner. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jul 15, 2024
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Sidonie In Japan (2023) |
Sidone in Japan is irritatingly artificial. The humour is slight, the faux-profundity embarrassing. Girard’s Japonisme is empty aesthetic. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Faye (2024) |
Laurent Bouzereau’s access to Liam and Faye’s personal archives and recollections expands on the woman behind the myth and suggests that the myth might just be the woman people believe is Faye Dunaway. Compelling filmmaking. - In Their Own League
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Kinds of Kindness is a lesser Lanthimos and unlikely to bring sceptics into the hive – but it nonetheless coheres to his conviction to disorient and disturb. - The Curb
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| Posted Jul 10, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) |
Fly Me to the Moon has some appeal in places, and Johansson’s twists and twirls make for some genuine amusement. Ultimately both too much and too little derail what should be a fairly breezy affair. - In Their Own League
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| Posted Jul 10, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is an understated masterpiece of Americana. Nichols puts the audience in the sidecar, by the open fire, and in a crowded bar and it is intoxicating. - The Curb
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (2023) |
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is sweet, funny, deadpan, and magical. A tale about love after life and the mysteries of the day to day being just as profound as those of the divine. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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A Family Affair (2024) |
Charmless, unsexy, generally irritating and unfunny. The kind of confection where the wish fulfilment is for it to stop being someone’s wish fulfilment and for anyone to have a real-world problem for fifteen minutes. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jul 02, 2024
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Birdeater (2023) |
Birdeater is dark and uncompromising in its vision of masculinity unleashed; a visceral and feral experience that is outstanding. - The Curb
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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Dandelion (2024) |
Dandelion is precious and rare; a piece of cinema about the creative flame where the drama has more weight the longer the audience considers it… an exquisite journey through the soul of an artist. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Vourdalak (2023) |
The Vourdalak is a precise enchantment crafted by a director and a team of actors who pull you into their strange web. A cinematic reverie beyond time and a vampire classic. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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Whale Rider (2002) |
Few coming-of-age stories blend so seamlessly indigenous identity through spiritual belief and balance the reality of a world where such belief has been devalued. - The Curb
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Tramps! (2022) |
Tramps! reminds the audience that there are those who will never Fade to Grey. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023) |
A romance, a critique of privilege and greed, a big sweeping drama with Mads Mikkelsen stoic, pained, selfish, loving, grizzled, and fierce… another brilliant slice of Denmark’s best. - The Curb
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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In the Summers (2024) |
Beautifully acted and expertly shot by Alejandro Mejia, Alessandra Lacorazza’s emotionally raw feature aches with authenticity. In the Summers is a legacy of love in all its vicissitudes. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 20, 2024
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Tiger Stripes (2023) |
A thrilling addition to the empowered rebel and feral girl canon. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 17, 2024
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Cannibal Mukbang (2023) |
Cannibal Mukbang is the kind of film which comes bolting out of the gates heading straight to the jugular and tugging at the audience’s heartstrings. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Just the Two of Us (2023) |
Just the Two of Us is horrifying because it doesn’t stretch credibility or imagination. There is no ultimate revenge and no firm end. An everyday fight for survival which happens across class and cultural milieus. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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The Exorcism (2024) |
Overly serious, dull, and most unforgivably, not even vaguely menacing. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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In the Room Where He Waits (2024) |
In the Room Where He Waits is as complex as it is brilliant. Not only one of the best queer Australian films of the year it is also one of the best Australian debut features. Haunting, deeply affecting, and resonant. - The Curb
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024) |
Inside Out 2 doesn’t have the heft of the original but follows in its spirit with some relatable poignancy and new emotions that people will appreciate. - The Curb
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Hit Man (2023) |
It’s refreshing to have a film which is so breezily entertaining, thrilling, brainy, and romantic. Hit Man is cheeky, hot, and a hell of a ride. - The Curb
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| Posted Jun 10, 2024
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I Used to be Funny (2023) |
I Used to Be Funny is authentically heartbreaking and hilarious. A triumph for Ally Pankiw, Rachel Sennott, and indie Canadian cinema. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jun 06, 2024
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Backspot (2023) |
Wonderfully shot, choreographed, scored, and acted. Dark and light collide to create magic under neon and laser lights. D. W. Waterson will have you cheering for their energetic, affecting, and intelligent work. Elite level filmmaking.
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| Posted May 30, 2024
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Young Woman and the Sea (2024) |
There were enough factors in Trudy’s life which made what she did exciting and groundbreaking, so why go the making stuff up route? Heroic young woman completes a marathon swim in record time is enough. - InSession Film
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| Posted May 30, 2024
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Atlas (2024) |
Atlas being about trusting good AI is ironic because the film feels like it was written by a chatbot and performed by people running on autopilot. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted May 26, 2024
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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) |
A striking film about a child lost to his family and himself. - InSession Film
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| Posted May 23, 2024
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Not a Word (2023) |
Maren Eggert is extraordinary as Nina, so too Jona Levin Nicolai as Lars. The genius in Hanna Slak’s film is allowing them to be awful so they can become better. Not a Word is symphonic. - The Curb
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| Posted May 22, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
Miller’s spectacle is transcendent when he has the pedal to the metal and the messy seams of Furiosa don’t undo the whole. Solid second gear action that could go faster to be more furious. - InSession Film
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| Posted May 21, 2024
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The Three Musketeers: Part II - Milady (2023) |
The pleasure of the film is in watching Eva Green go toe to toe with everyone in her exquisite costumes speaking French, Spanish, German, English, and Italian with ease while she dances around foolish and venal men. - The Curb
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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The Three Musketeers: Part I - D'Artagnan (2023) |
Extravagantly expensive, action heavy – the films are exactly what they claim to be – blockbuster cinema. - The Curb
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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Aisha (2022) |
Letitia Wright is giving the finest performance of her career thus far. - InSession Film
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| Posted May 16, 2024
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The Idea of You (2024) |
A sexy and wise movie. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted May 14, 2024
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Housekeeping for Beginners (2023) |
Stolevski is performing a highwire act with Housekeeping for Beginners balancing comedy, drama, and careful commentary. Love is expressed in so many ways… vibrant and lovely – an expression of devotion and solidarity. - The Curb
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| Posted May 08, 2024
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Humane (2024) |
Caitlin Cronenberg is not fake news when it comes to being an accomplished artist. HUMANE announces itself – long live the new Cronenberg! Eat the rich before they devour you. The rabid brood are pestilence. - The Curb
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| Posted May 05, 2024
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) |
Hamaguchi’s writing and direction are deeply humanistic and give us the sense that in life, although unpredictable, there are moments that can change us that are both small and monumental. - The Curb
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| Posted May 04, 2024
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Undertow (2018) |
Undertow is an extraordinary piece of slice-of-life cinema that investigates the lengths people will go to deal with trauma and loss. - The Curb
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| Posted May 04, 2024
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Little Wing (2024) |
Lumpen where it should be light and too concerned with telling the audience what is happening but not always backing up why. Brooklynn Prince will fly to heights, but LITTLE WING is a non-starter. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted May 04, 2024
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Turtles All the Way Down (2024) |
Hannah Marks’ direction and excellent performances by Merced, Marks, and especially Cree, who is quite the revelation, provide extra substance for Green’s bildungsroman. - InSession Film
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| Posted May 02, 2024
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Boy Kills World (2023) |
Boy Kill World is best when Bill Skargård commits to the bit with his huge eyes and impressive abs and biceps. The Euro knock off 87North has a while to go before it has the panache of the works its liberally stealing from. - The Curb
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| Posted May 02, 2024
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Parachute (2023) |
Parachute observes a life in freefall with delicacy, significance and the waft of an upwards breeze. - In Their Own League
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| Posted Apr 30, 2024
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We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) |
We’re All Going to The World’s Fair is a strikingly original film that for the most part leans heavily into its genre ambiguity to tell a story that is more grounded in the reality of the contemporary teen experience. - The Curb
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| Posted Apr 26, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024) |
It isn’t just the action which is the thumbs up for the film. The playful and explosive chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt ensures you’ll fall for The Fall Guy. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Apr 25, 2024
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) |
Haunting, ethereal, and bleak – Evil Does Not Exist again proves Hamaguchi as one of Japan’s most complex and indefinable storytellers. - The Curb
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| Posted Apr 25, 2024
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