Australian comedy Audrey goes to dark,dark places in its hunt for laughs
★★★½
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Australian comedy Audrey goes to dark,dark places in its hunt for laughs

Jackie van Beek plays a former Logie winner who pretends to be her teenage daughter in a black comedy that counts Muriel’s Wedding as a spiritual predecessor.

  • byCraig Mathieson

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Indigenous thriller’s child-stealing spirit conjures horrors of the Stolen Generation
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