Luke Goodsell is an editor, critic, and festival programmer who writes on film for ABC Arts. He tweets @lukegoodsell
To Catch a Predator built a platform on conflating justice and entertainment, which director Lance Oppenheim presents in dark detail for his feature debut.
ET director Steven Spielberg dives back into the extra terrestrial with his latest film while asking 'How do you astonish an audience when anything is possible, and nothing is real?
Spanning from the Jackson 5's 1960s discovery through to the height of his fame in the late 80s, Michael skates over the more challenging aspects of the King of Pop.
On the surface, A-listers Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's new film seems like a regular rom-com. That's exactly what director Kristoffer Borgli wants you to think.
The two Queensland "bogans" put on a show, but Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights is more wish fulfilment than a meaningful adaptation of the classic novel.
From Australian-made gore to sugar-rush animation, here are the films that had our critics seated and watching this year.
November saw the return of two beloved franchises; magic-filled Now You See Me and action classic Predator — but can either live up to their predecessors?
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo shine in Wicked: For Good, but does the sequel live up to the thrill of its predecessor?
From the highly anticipated Bruce Springsteen biopic to a horror movie from the viewpoint of the family pup, here are the films filling up cinemas in October.
A malfunctioning mechanical shark forced then-26-year-old director Steven Spielberg to tease audiences with glimpses of a great white, creating a cultural phenomenon that still holds up half a century later.
It's been almost 30 years since Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore changed golf forever. After watching the long anticipated sequel you may wish he stayed in retirement.
After the success of his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, director James Gunn brings wisecracks, cartoonish violence and sincerity to America's marquee superhero.
In Stories of Surrender, Bono appears solo on stage, sharing stories, jokes and songs that illuminate what life is like for the man behind the sunglasses.
Teaming up again with director Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise is embodying Ethan Hunt for one final time (allegedly) in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. And this time, the enemy is a little more existential.
A few years on from The Idol, The Weeknd's newest project seems hell-bent on ruining whatever's left of his audience goodwill. But it's also incredibly compelling.
Based on a true story, this heartwarming film stars Steve Coogan as a grumpy English teacher, and a scene-stealing penguin as the one who might just save him.
This adaptation of Claire Keegan's Booker-nominated novel, Small Things Like These, tells a heartbreaking story using an undercurrent of menace and Cillian Murphy's expressive eyes.
More than four decades after American Gigolo, Richard Gere and Paul Schrader reunite in a stunning film about memory and legacy, also starring Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi.
In this dialogue-free cat's-eye view of a world after humans, a boatload of animals squabble and scamper but learn to survive as a makeshift family.
Disney's decade-long mission to remake their classic animation catalogue marches on with a live action remake of their first feature.
The latest film from Steven Soderbergh — starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as a married couple of spies — takes a genre trope and makes it stylish and new.
Watching Nickel Boys is like slipping on a virtual-reality headset as it tells the story literally through the eyes of a Black teenager wrongfully imprisoned in 1960s Florida.
Gia Coppola's new film shows the grind behind the glamour of a Las Vegas show, starring a powerful Pamela Anderson.
The Oscars are almost here, but how many of the films have you actually seen? Before forking out big bucks, these nominated movies are available on home streaming services for no extra charge.
Unlike so many fame-obsessed rock documentaries, Becoming Led Zeppelin maintains a dedicated focus on the music itself.
