Belle:visual feast shows a teen girl’s sadness is a powerful thing
★★★★
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Belle:visual feast shows a teen girl’s sadness is a powerful thing

Former Studio Ghibli animator Mamoru Hosoda brings a fundamental seriousness and a spectacular visual sensibility to this tale of loneliness and fame

  • byPaul Byrnes

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The hottest tickets in live music this year

The hottest tickets in live music this year

The Australian music industry has been badly hit over the past two years,but the good news is that major concert tours are on their way back. From the Oils to The Kid Laroi,here are 12 of the best.

  • byCraig Mathieson
Matt Moran:Australian Bake Off celebrates the joy of licking the bowl

Matt Moran:Australian Bake Off celebrates the joy of licking the bowl

Baking delights all generations and all walks of life,says the chef and co-judge of Bake Off,about to start its fifth season in Australia.

  • byMelinda Houston
Noel Pearson’s latest book demands space,in every sense of the word

Noel Pearson’s latest book demands space,in every sense of the word

Noel Pearson’s collected writings reveal a frustrated man who has not seen the changes he so dearly wished for.

  • byDeclan Fry
Blanchett and Cooper aren’t enough to distract from new film’s confusing tone
★★½
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Blanchett and Cooper aren’t enough to distract from new film’s confusing tone

With dramatic backlighting,lavish production design and a top cast,director Guillermo del Toro has created a stylised world that veers close to parody.

  • byJake Wilson
Made-in-Oz thriller starring Zac Efron grips you by the throat
★★★
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Made-in-Oz thriller starring Zac Efron grips you by the throat

Set in a post-apocalyptic desert,Gold,directed by Anthony Hayes,was made partly with special funding to help filmmakers through COVID-19.

  • byPaul Byrnes
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Muster Dogs:working pups get their own reality TV series

Muster Dogs:working pups get their own reality TV series

This new ABC series about training sheep and cattle dogs sheds light on how they are giving machinery - helicopters and bikes - a run for their money.

  • byMelinda Houston
The revolution Kiwis didn’t talk about - until now

The revolution Kiwis didn’t talk about - until now

The Panthers is a cracking yarn told with typical Kiwi humour and understatement about Polynesian rebels against racism in the 1970s.

  • byMelinda Houston
‘Unmitigated pleasure’:Clooney gives warm glow to The Tender Bar
★★★½
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‘Unmitigated pleasure’:Clooney gives warm glow to The Tender Bar

Starring Tye Sheridan and Ben Affleck,this New York movie memoir directed by Clooney is affectionate,thoughtful and very funny.

  • byPaul Byrnes
‘A deep,dark dive into the human psyche’:Nick Frost on Why Women Kill

‘A deep,dark dive into the human psyche’:Nick Frost on Why Women Kill

Made by the creator of Desperate Housewives,Why Women Kill takes viewers to all kinds of surprising places.

  • byMelinda Houston
‘Make these films about women’:Joachim Trier creates a heroine

‘Make these films about women’:Joachim Trier creates a heroine

Renate Reinsve is luminous playing a privileged woman in her late 20s trying to figure what to study and which man she wants.

  • byStephanie Bunbury