Drama films
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3 out of 5 stars.Berry brings energy and focus to her directing debut, in which she plays a burned-out mixed martial arts fighter on a comeback mission
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The in-demand actor’s latest role? Playing a stroppy chef on the busiest night of the year in the single-take drama Boiling Point
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4 out of 5 stars.A young man whose early death was foretold begins to question a life of caution
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3 out of 5 stars.Dénes Nagy’s sombre second world war film doesn’t give much away, but its coldness speaks volumes about the nature of conflict
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3 out of 5 stars.
Tick, Tick… Boom! review – Andrew Garfield shines in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s meta musical
3 out of 5 stars.Garfield gives it his all in Miranda’s take on the life of Rent creator Jonathan Larson
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3 out of 5 stars.The director plays a ‘real cowboy’ who bonds with the boy he’s asked to rescue from his mother in this touching road movie
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2 out of 5 stars.Sylvester Stallone’s attempt to put a new sheen on his Cold War relic of a sequel is a ridiculous and largely pointless undertaking
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5 out of 5 stars.David Thewlis’s lost soul, raging around London in Mike Leigh’s fiercely bleak masterwork, is even more disturbing 28 years on
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3 out of 5 stars.Phoebe Dynevor dazzles as the factory girl who became a celebrated ceramic artist in this rather too feelgood period drama
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4 out of 5 stars.Sudan’s first Oscar entry, about a boy destined to die young, is warmed by compassion and gorgeous, dreamy imagery
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3 out of 5 stars.James Vaughan’s feature debut touches on Australian history and colonialism in an admirable cinematic experiment
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3 out of 5 stars.
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson review – riveting but heavy-handed outback western
3 out of 5 stars.While it doesn’t always hit the mark, Leah Purcell’s Indigenous feminist reimagining of Henry Lawson’s classic is a bullet between the eyes of a whitewashed fable -
4 out of 5 stars.An impoverished teen seeks to escape the clutches of a human trafficker in Alexandre Moratto’s complex drama
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The Power of the Dog review – Jane Campion’s superb gothic western is mysterious and menacing
5 out of 5 stars.