From blockbusters to art house and foreign gems these were the standout films across streaming networks and big movie houses, according to AFR Weekend’s resident film critic.
It’s a movie destined for cult status, featuring an anti-heroine with a look and an attitude that will prove infectious. If you happen to be a disaffected, late-20s, polymorphous perverse woman, this is the film you’ve been waiting for.
This is a movie that never asks us to sympathise with the characters and their problems, a story that grows in complexity upon reflection.AdvertisementHerman J. Mankiewicz was the kind of character Hollywood couldn’t make up. On the contrary, it was Mankiewicz who made it up for Hollywood. Once the highest-paid scriptwriter in the business, “Mank” is said to have worked on 95 movies, although he spent much of his time fixing other people’s scripts and often went uncredited.
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