Jason Di Rosso

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Jun 26, 2026 With a jukebox soundtrack that feels like it’s designed to paper over the pacing problems...the film is overblown and unmemorable. Go to Full Review Supergirl (2026) 52% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Apr 23, 2026 Falls short of the strangeness of a 'Willy Wonka' (the original) or the teenage operatic drama of a 'Harry Potter'...a well meaning, if very gentle (bordering on anodyne) adventure movie. Go to Full Review The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) 80% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Mar 10, 2026 From the get go the images in Laxe’s film are singular and wonderfully strange. Go to Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Mar 10, 2026 It is a film about a man and his relationship with (and courting of) death – both his own, and also the animals who are his victims, and it’s an eloquent meditation on how ultimately that abyss is something we face alone. Go to Full Review Afternoons of Solitude (2024) 89% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Apr 15, 2025 Uses multiple archival sources, including Cole’s own writings, and some touches of artistic license, to build a moving and informative portrait. Go to Full Review Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024) 97% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Apr 15, 2025 It got under my skin, with its insightful framing of innocence, provincial yearning, and its respect for the teenage heart. Go to Full Review Head South (2024) 100% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Dec 4, 2024 A debut feature that doesn’t lose grip on the premise, and actually develops it in dramatically interesting and surprising ways Go to Full Review Your Monster (2024) 79% - -

Jason Di Rosso The Screen Show (ABC Radio Australia) Nov 23, 2023 The film explores the reasons behind what becomes a pretty catastrophic failure in communication, and it does this with a great deal of humour and even some very well directed sequences that push the film into the realm of psychological thriller. Go to Full Review Cat Person (2023) 46% 48%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Nov 23, 2023 Scott's Napoleon is flesh and blood. He's also a walking signifier of self-belief, and the film eventually succeeds in transmitting that power. Go to Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% 59%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Oct 18, 2023 An urgent, devastatingly bleak crime drama about colonialism and murder. Go to Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% 84%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Sep 21, 2023 It's a bittersweet drama centring on two men who meet as children... It's about the innocence of youth giving way to the disappointments of adulthood, about the impact of overbearing fathers, about the struggle to find your own place in the world. Go to Full Review The Eight Mountains (2022) 91% 97%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) May 26, 2023 It is Diop's layering, and deliberate blurring, of different mother and daughter relationships that underlines the film's central focus: maternal love, estrangement and resentment. Go to Full Review Saint Omer (2022) 95% - -

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) May 23, 2023 [Petrol] has a poetic and sometimes surreal narrative style that conveys a vividly emotional take on the world; it reveals profound truths about the characters, even if the precise detail of their story remains slightly -- and deliciously -- cryptic. Go to Full Review Petrol (2022) 100% - -

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Apr 17, 2023 The Innocent is the kind of breezy good time that's hard to find at the movies these days. It's not devoid of deeper meaning, but it's brimming, first and foremost, with a relish for storytelling that's playful and fun. Go to Full Review The Innocent (2022) 98% 86%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Aug 11, 2022 Peele's layering of themes and ideas, which don't always cohere but form a multifaceted and thought-provoking critique, takes second place to a popcorn thrill ride of high stakes and bruising action. Go to Full Review Nope (2022) 83% 69%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Aug 4, 2022 Juniper is a drama with black comic edges about a fragmented family, and the unexpectedly life-affirming influence of its particularly tetchy matriarch. Go to Full Review Juniper (2021) 94% 79%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Dec 3, 2021 Titane fuses body horror and extreme violence with questions of gender, identity and family. Go to Full Review Titane (2021) 90% 85%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Nov 19, 2021 Wright's two damsels in distress, caught in a twisted relationship across time, are vivid and captivating, but when the crimson curtains fall on their blood-soaked (mis)adventures, you wonder if they might have communicated something more. Go to Full Review Last Night in Soho (2021) 75% 90%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Sep 16, 2021 Writer-director Robert Machoian... explores this poisoned soil of male rage with some thoughtful observations. Go to Full Review The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) 92% 69%

Jason Di Rosso ABC News (Australia) Apr 1, 2021 The Father is an accomplished debut, but it doesn't always live up to the promise of its style and surface complexity with a corresponding profundity or level of insight. Go to Full Review The Father (2020) 98% 92%