Lauren Carroll Harris

Lauren Carroll Harris ABC News (Australia) Sep 25, 2019 It's the kind of astonishing story that could serve as the dramatic spine of an alternate history novel... Go to Full Review American Factory (2019) 95% 82%

Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian Aug 5, 2019 Getting smart, interesting young artists to tell personal stories about being Australian and Muslim proves a powerful device for cutting through the fearful rhetoric of the Muslim as an imagined bad guy Go to Full Review - - - -

Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian Aug 5, 2019 Hannah Gadsby spins her own life story into a clever, raging and confronting spiel against misogyny, homophobia and even the tired old tropes of comedy itself. Go to Full Review Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) 100% 26%

Lauren Carroll Harris RealTime Aug 1, 2019 Dawson City: Frozen Time's most intense quality is its richness, both visually and historically. Go to Full Review Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) 100% 69%

Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian Jul 24, 2019 The show wisely, and slyly, toggles between apocalyptic political warnings, wry warmth and a truly idiosyncratic sense of humour. Go to Full Review - - - -

Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian Jul 24, 2019 With this slickly produced 70-minute standup special, Netflix continues its glittering and sometimes subversive lineup of smart, kooky comedy. Go to Full Review Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable (2018) 92% 44%

Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian Jul 23, 2019 At the glittering centre of it all is Beyoncé herself: master maker of her own modern myth; an uber-perfectionist capitalist surveying her multimedia empire. Go to Full Review Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019) 98% 87%

Lauren Carroll Harris Kill Your Darlings Jun 3, 2019 [It] explores both the destructive masculinity upon which Cullen built his personal mythology, and the way Australian culture romanticises blokey dysfunction. Go to Full Review Acute Misfortune (2018) 93% 71%

Lauren Carroll Harris The Baffler Jun 3, 2019 Despite the narrative abstraction and exposed artifice of the film's construction, Xu's creation feels creepily alive-because it is. Go to Full Review Dragonfly Eyes (2017) 56% - -

Lauren Carroll Harris Kill Your Darlings May 1, 2019 Stay open to life, never close down. To me, Let The Sunshine In seems a great film. Go to Full Review Let the Sunshine In (2017) 87% 32%

Lauren Carroll Harris Kill Your Darlings Feb 22, 2019 I suspect, however, that Corbet's aims are actually more modest than many critics have credited: to create a fun, irony-drenched visual story that skips through a frenzied life with the rhythm of a video clip. Go to Full Review Vox Lux (2018) 62% 37%

Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian Nov 9, 2018 Welles and his collaborators have made an almost weightless film of ellipses and shards; as the camera ricochets at surprising angles and scenes slide into one another, the project recalls the energy and dynamism of Jean-Luc Godard. Go to Full Review The Other Side of the Wind (2018) 82% 58%

Lauren Carroll Harris Australian Book Review Jul 5, 2018 2/5 ...the plotline unfolds with such a lack of clarity that it is hard to know what The Second saying about the sexual power, or disempowerment, of teen girls. Go to Full Review The Second (2018) 63% 50%

Lauren Carroll Harris Australian Book Review Jun 20, 2018 3/5 It's quite touching, in a demented way, despite the feeling that the script could have dug deeper and more drolly into the moral ambiguity of toxic bonds, family trauma, and parental failure. Go to Full Review Brothers' Nest (2018) 92% 73%

Lauren Carroll Harris The Monthly (Australia) Jun 8, 2018 The finest moments of Tully play like an insight to this female future of storytelling. Go to Full Review Tully (2018) 87% 74%

Lauren Carroll Harris The Monthly (Australia) May 11, 2018 Neither Gillespie nor writer Steven Rogers has the sensibility to lucidly, subtly navigate the black comedic tone for which they reach. Go to Full Review I, Tonya (2017) 90% 88%

Lauren Carroll Harris Kill Your Darlings May 3, 2018 Its stalker logic feels real and converges its form with its content: medical industry connivances conspire with the perversion of romantic love Go to Full Review Unsane (2018) 80% 59%

Lauren Carroll Harris The Monthly (Australia) Mar 30, 2018 An ambitious amalgam of artist's film and political documentary, Human Flow is a grand meditation on how to cut through political apathy with solidarity and visual metaphor. Go to Full Review Human Flow (2017) 91% 80%

Lauren Carroll Harris The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia) Mar 8, 2018 The problem with the film's "humanist" approach is that it's too... human-scaled. The result is a film made without magic or sublimity, in which reverence is replaced by diligence. Go to Full Review Mary Magdalene (2018) 44% - -

Lauren Carroll Harris The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia) Jan 10, 2018 Still, it's to his credit that Spielberg fleshes out what the revelations of these papers meant for the US at the time. Go to Full Review The Post (2017) 88% 74%