Flicks (AU, NZ, UK)

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 30, 2026 It’s a hell of a film: one of those rare, crazy potions mainlined directly into Hollywood’s central nervous system. Jaws will drop; tongues will flutter; some walk-outs will be inevitable. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Aug 6, 2026 The film didn’t receive the recognition it deserved upon release, but hopefully its reputation will continue to ripen, as a rare cop movie more interested in morals than machismo. Go to Full Review Cop Land (1997) 75% 67%

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 16, 2026 It truly hits its stride around the halfway mark, but then loses that momentum again during the final hour, its interpersonal dramas feeling muffled and the tempo tiring. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 2, 2026 Rather than settling for cheap laughs, the film invests in a deeply felt story about fatherhood, family, and the messy realities of divorce. Go to Full Review Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) 74% 77%

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jun 24, 2026 Paris, Texas moves us not because it achieves some ideal state or paints an immaculate picture, but because it understands human frailty so brilliantly; its beauty lies in its wounds. Go to Full Review Paris, Texas (1984) 95% 93%

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jun 24, 2026 I appreciated Sarnoski’s audacity, and his reluctance to soften or compromise the vision, though it also feels like we’re being asked to emotionally invest in a character who is irredeemably awful. Go to Full Review The Death of Robin Hood (2026) 69% - -

Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jun 10, 2026 it’s sharply made, with a dry, cynical bite that keeps it puckish and playful. The toxic marriage genre lives to die another day Go to Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 71% 32%

Steve Newall Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 OK, you’re either going to be on the wavelength of this absurd-as-absurd-can-be comedy or you really, really will not (I loved every second of it). Go to Full Review Ebony & Ivory (2024) 73% - -

Steve Newall Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 You’ve probably never seen a video game adaptation that replicates the experience and frustration of gaming quite like this. Go to Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 92% - -

Steve Newall Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Could have come to an abrupt stop and satisfied as a character study, but finds a final act to lurk longer in your post-movie recollections. Go to Full Review Lurker (2025) 94% - -

Steve Newall Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Alex Ross Perry utterly nails an unconventional approach that sits perfectly with the band’s aesthetic - and in particular, truculent contrarian (and sometimes savage) frontman Stephen Malkmus. Pavements layers fact and fiction wonderfully. Go to Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% - -

Steve Newall Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Seen as big and loud as possible, it stuns eyes, rattles ears and shakes nerves. Superb. Go to Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% - -

Steve Newall Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Loved it, loved it, loved it. I went into The Weed Eaters hoping for early-era Peter Jackson resource-stretching, dryballs Aotearoa humour and genre gross-out appreciation, and while it’s not as excessively gory as PJ, the pic paid off in spades. Go to Full Review The Weed Eaters (2025) - - - -

Liam Maguren Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Tartakovsky’s more interested in showing the sides of these animals we try to ignore. Go to Full Review Fixed (2025) 57% - -

Tony Stamp Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Weapons might just be a masterpiece. We’ll know once the dust settles and history has had its say, but walking out of the theatre, mind racing, feeling more cinematically satisfied than I had in a while, it certainly felt that way. Go to Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% - -

Matt Glasby Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 This time, I’m glad to say I made it all the way through, and was (un)pleasantly surprised. It’s still a punishing watch - and flawed as hell - but closer to art than exploitation. Go to Full Review Bad Lieutenant (1992) 76% 67%

Liam Maguren Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Without suited execs and random focus groups sanding off the rugged edges central to its themes, Sketch feels uncompromised in its vision and genuine in its intent. Go to Full Review Sketch (2024) 95% - -

Amelia Berry Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Now, finally, somebody has synthesised the yin and yang of Millennial cinema. The dick jokes AND the indie pop ennui, together at last. Go to Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% - -

Cat Woods Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 This movie could be a savage, gory (and it is very gory) fantasy world of monsters, wild men, and gold-hearted women, but it is so much more emotional, intelligent and beautiful Go to Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% - -

Liam Maguren Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Don’t expect Familiar Touch to jump on a soapbox and monologue about health discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots. It simply isn’t that kind of film. Go to Full Review Familiar Touch (2024) 99% - -