Luke Goodsell

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Culture December 10, 2025

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man, is a perfectly balanced romp.

Culture August 20, 2025

Ari Aster’s Eddington

Ari Aster’s pandemic film, Eddington, might be the first Hollywood movie to successfully channel the malignant forces that broke humanity’s brain.

Culture October 15, 2025

Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt

Julia Roberts shines in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, an exploration of cancel culture that is hard to imagine even being made a few years ago.

Culture August 02, 2025

David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds

David Cronenberg’s new film – his most personal – brings grief and a surprising touch of metaphysics to his complex exploration of body horror.

Culture June 28, 2025

Celine Song’s Materialists

Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives explores the capitalist trappings of modern romance, without subverting them.

Culture May 03, 2025

Alonso Ruizpalacios’s La cocina

La cocina, an adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play The Kitchen, is an exploration of migrant worker misery sharpened by the political environment in America today.

Culture March 12, 2025

Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17

Bong Joon-ho’s new film, Mickey 17, a darkly comic science fiction parable, is an expensive, unwieldly misfire that brings cinema back.

Culture January 25, 2025

A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet is astonishing as Bob Dylan in the otherwise formulaic music biopic A Complete Unknown.

Culture November 13, 2024

Arena spectacular: Paul Mescal shines in Gladiator II

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II is a bloody, carnivalesque epic that focuses on a world of angry young men forced to reckon with the myths of previous generations.

Culture November 25, 2023

Pop auteur Caroline Polachek

Avant-pop artist Caroline Polachek is bringing her myth-making performance of desire to Australia for the first time.