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Retrospective: the pulse-pounding Collateral remains Tom Cruise’s greatest action movie
Box office behemoth Top Gun: Maverick may be the biggest Tom Cruise action movie, but it ain’t his best.
30 Jun
Luke Buckmaster
Luke Buckmaster is the editor of Flicks.com.au. In addition to writing for Flicks, he is film critic for Guardian Australia and author of Miller and Max: George Miller and the Making of a Film Legend.
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The thrillingly gory The Quarry blurs the line between video game and interactive movie
Is it a game or an interactive movie? Either way, horror fans are gonna love it.
15 Jun
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Does Tom Cruise represent the last generation of flesh and blood movie stars?
The Top Gun star is a top candidate to be digitally reborn, keeping his megastar persona forever young.
10 Jun
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Retrospective: Tucker and Dale Vs Evil flips the horror script by making our preconceptions the villain
Death has a sense of humour in the 2011 horror comedy, where hillbilly murderer tropes get subverted.
31 May
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Almost 100 years on, Metropolis remains one of sci-fi cinema’s greatest spectacles
When this classic film is great, it is next level great, with a boldness that shifted the foundation of sci-fi cinema.
24 May
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Three great true crime productions to watch after The Staircase
These other stories inspired by shocking real events dig deeper than Colin Firth’s new fictionalised series.
11 May
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So-so drama Gaslit stars a radiant Julia Roberts and a chin-dribbling Sean Penn
A prosthetics-enhanced Sean Penn is a sight to behold, sinking into all his new chins and stomach rolls.
28 Apr
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Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas F**king Cage in the zestily entertaining The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nic Cage meets his biggest fan and plays himself AND becomes a government agent in a film that’s catnip for Cage completists.
22 Apr
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Is Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People stranger than fiction, or weirder than history?
Before he was President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky played the President in a comedy series that bizarrely pre-empted his political career.
09 Apr
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood turns the moon landing into a gorgeous dream
Inspired by his own upbringing, Richard Linklater takes viewers on a gosh-darn beautiful journey to the moon.
04 Apr
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Retrospective: sci-fi classic Silent Running is a better film about eco-activism than Don’t Look Up
This insanely beautiful film has never been more relevant.
02 Apr
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Joe vs. Carole attempts to cash in a story we haven’t had time to get nostalgic about
Tiger King could – and probably should – have been a weird one-off hit, but somehow it became a quasi-franchise.
03 Mar
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It’s hipsters vs hicks again in the underwhelming Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot
The villain’s famous fashion sense invites a different perspective on the red carpet question “who are you wearing?”
23 Feb
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Severance is a brilliantly original show about hating the hell out of your day job
Ever wondered what it would feel like to take acid and lock yourself in a boardroom? Look no further.
18 Feb
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Retrospective: RoboCop has badass 80s action and brutal social commentary
“Your move, creep.”
09 Feb
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All of Us Are Dead is packed to the gills with full-blown zombie mayhem
You know the drill: the running, the screaming, the biting, everybody falling over each other.
31 Jan
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Pam & Tommy is an addictively entertaining history lesson – full of sex, drugs and wobbly bits
Turns out the tape is the least interesting part of this wildly entertaining new series.
27 Jan
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Netflix’s The House is like a Wes Anderson animation gone horrifyingly wrong
An early candidate for the weirdest film of the year is this trippy stop-motion animated feature.
19 Jan
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Let there be carnage indeed: the Venom sequel is sly, sharp and wickedly funny
This is what the first Venom movie should have been: a devilishly different comic book blockbuster that’s very damn funny.
26 Nov
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Titane is just your average, everyday film about a woman impregnated by a car
This disgustingly weird French film will make you say “I can’t believe they went there.”
24 Nov
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All we wanted for Christmas was a sadistic Home Alone movie, but instead we got Home Sweet Home Alone
The new Home Alone under-delivers on two important fronts: cartoon carnage and humiliating pain.
16 Nov