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No NBA stars. No corporate attempts at IP expansion. Just a great meshing of the original Daffy and Porky cartoons with '50s-era sci-fi cinema. This is pure, uncut Loonacy and it's a joy to behold.

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With its overt fish-out-of-water comedy, broad bro-ey sentimentality, and commitment to the ludicrous “autistic secret agent” world-building, The Accountant 2 is a thousand times more entertaining than its predecessor. Full article

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Succession’s Jesse Armstrong turns his satirical surgical focus to a different strata of global villains - the tech sector. Holed up in a mountain lair and modelled on Musk, Thiel etc., the comedy is claustrophobic, but the scale global - its many punches landing hard in our present day.

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Bit of an unsung Kiwi gem, a distinctively rural crime thriller that Aotearoa could make more of. Cameron Jones and Josh McKenzie fuel the film as brothers-at-odds, powering the film's very humorous start to a situation that gets increasingly more desperate up to its tense climax.

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A frightening look at the geopolitical scramble for food and water resources, depicting a painstaking journalistic campaign to peer behind the curtain - revealing mercenaries, corruption, hedge fund stooges, shady acquisitions and the odd familiar modern villain like Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

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Through well-timed moments of despair to triumph and even anger, Tinā really takes you on an emotional ride. But if the film is steeped in painful emotion, it is equally rich in humour. Miki Magasiva may just have created a new classic that our people can call their own. Read full article

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