Amanda Jane Robinson

Excellent leads and Farhadi’s baseline quality make it a solid watch.

It’s a concept less interesting than the film’s initial trajectory.

If it weren’t for a few performances, it would be pretty forgettable.

Keira Knightley deploys some of her best emotional work.

It’s a long list.

Its Generation Z teenagers move between homework and activism with grace and strength.

Roberts offers a skillful performance of strength and cautious care.

Amanda Jane Robinson goes through the highs and lows.

Nothing new or outstanding, but it’s a nice watch.

When the film makes a narrative shift, its distinction is lost.

An incredible portrait of generosity and precarity.

The excellent lead performance and brilliant details win out.

A character study that doesn’t patronise its audience.

Playing Auckland’s Academy Cinemas Sept-Oct.

“Friendship between women is one of those incredibly strong human relationships.”

Jennifer Ehle, too, is excellent.

“We’re 50% of the population and we’ve had to fight for 12% of the work”

Exploring the film’s power dynamics, colonial anxiety & command of image.

Some decent moments don’t sustain the rest of the film.

None of the slick production present in Soderbergh’s trilogy makes it to this spin-off.

Ocean’s Eight, the all-female spin-off from the Ocean’s franchise of heist films, is now in cinemas (you can see it at HOYTS – who’ve brought you this opinion piece). As Amanda Robinson says below, the Sandra Bullock-led pic is more designed to deliver multiplex thrills than upend decades of Hollywood chauvinism. On the eleventh anniversary […]