The AU Review

Peter Gray The AU Review 6 days ago 2.5/5 Unfortunately, the film surrounding [Ortega] is too tonally confused, narratively uneven and emotionally rushed to fully honour either her performance or the extraordinary sadness of its source material. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 25% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review 6 days ago 4/5 A gruesome, uncompromising and unexpectedly affecting descent into villainy, Clayface finds DC Studios embracing its darker instincts with considerable confidence. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Oct 14, 2026 2/5 It wants to be irreverent, occasionally emotional and intermittently epic, but rarely manages to balance those ambitions convincingly. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Oct 14, 2026 3.5/5 A handsomely crafted, emotionally engaging adaptation that finds its greatest strength not in the pursuit of romance, but in the bond between two very different sisters. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 76% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Oct 14, 2026 3.5/5 A moving, thoughtful examination of grief, friendship, forgiveness and the courage required to embrace an uncertain future. Go to Full Review Love of Your Life (2026) 81% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Oct 8, 2026 2/5 Other Mommy might know how to make an entrance, but it has absolutely no idea what to do once it’s in the room. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Oct 7, 2026 3.5/5 Taken on its own terms, The Social Reckoning is a smart, propulsive and impressively performed piece of adult entertainment, one that packages an extraordinarily dense investigation into something accessible without entirely sanding away its complexity. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Oct 3, 2026 3.5/5 Director Spencer King approaches the material with admirable restraint, allowing uncertainty to hang over the film and trusting the audience to decide how much they want to believe. Go to Full Review Nickels (2026) - - - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 30, 2026 3/5 A serviceable and slickly mounted psychological thriller that moves at an agreeable clip, benefits enormously from its ridiculously attractive central trio, and offers enough melodramatic thrills to keep audiences entertained until its final revelations. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 29, 2026 2.5/5 Rather than trusting the absurdity to speak for itself, the film keeps returning to its thesis, occasionally turning provocation into explanation. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 28, 2026 3.5/5 Following Colony and The Ugly, Paradise Lost continues [the] fascination on a considerably more intimate scale, using artificial intelligence not as its villain, but as the doorway into a mother’s grief. Go to Full Review Paradise Lost (2026) - - - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 28, 2026 3.5/5 A warm, perceptive drama about two sisters discovering that adulthood offers considerably fewer certainties than they were promised. Go to Full Review Happily Ever After (2026) - - - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 24, 2026 4.5/5 An engrossing examination of sensationalism that knows exactly how seductive the spectacle can be – because for nearly two hours, it makes it almost impossible to look away. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 24, 2026 3.5/5 The Stunt Driver may not reinvent the sports biopic, but [Michael] Dowse’s affection for his subject and [Jay] Baruchel’s committed performance give it an unexpectedly tender streak. Go to Full Review The Stunt Driver (2026) 74% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 24, 2026 3.5/5 What begins as a filthy comedy about modern dating gradually mutates into something darker, stranger and considerably more uncomfortable. Go to Full Review Everybody Wants to F*ck Me (2026) 61% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 21, 2026 4.5/5 For all its visual grandeur, La Bola Negra ultimately derives its power from something far simpler: the human need to be known. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 21, 2026 3/5 An academically minded coming-of-age drama that doesn’t rewrite the formula but finds enough intelligence and emotional truth within it to earn a passing grade. Go to Full Review The Julia Set (2026) 70% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 19, 2026 4/5 [Scott's] extraordinary achievement is that we stop watching the machinery of an awards-season performance and simply watch a man trying to remain himself while pieces of that self are being taken away. Go to Full Review Elsinore (2026) 88% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 18, 2026 3.5/5 Warm, funny and deeply compassionate. Go to Full Review Onwards and Sideways (2026) 100% - -

Peter Gray The AU Review Sep 18, 2026 4/5 A warm, frequently hilarious and surprisingly moving comedy about parenthood that understands choosing not to have children can be just as significant a life decision as choosing to have them. Go to Full Review Babies (2026) 88% - -