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In a world overwhelmed by climate change, where resources grow scarcer and humanity has long ago abandoned the open skies, The Assessment dares to ask the question: What does it mean to bring life int…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. In 2024, director Natalie Bailey and writer Lou Sanz unleashed Audrey onto au…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. At just twenty years old, transgender wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay has crafte…
An unbelievable $320 million USD is reportedly how much the Netflix Russo brother’s streaming title The Electric State cost. It’s expensive in the manner that a Chanel boomerang is expensive: a produc…
Though an impressive headline pairing alone ought to make James Ashcroft's The Rule of Jenny Pen appointment viewing, this unusually thoughtful genre exercise’s comment on tyranny and the absurdit…
Agnieszka Holland has always led a political life. She has witnessed the impact of multiple occupations and dictatorial regimes. She was present for the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. She is consider…
Saïd Belktibia’s suburban Paris set contemporary “witchcraft” thriller Hood Witch starring Golshifteh Farahani as the desperately broke single mother Nour who takes to smuggling restricted animals fro…
Steven Soderbergh is giving Ridley Scott a run for his money by showing how quickly a big-named director can whip up a consistent number of movies in a short space of time. After the intriguing experi…
French writer, actor, and director Sophie Fillières tackles the frustrations of middle-age and gendered invisibility in her curious dramedy This Life of Mine. It’s important to note that Sophie Filliè…
Audrey Diwan’s reimagining of Emmanuelle is dull, muddled, and more neurotic than erotic. The Hong Kong set film searches for steam and neon in Wong Kar-wai’s Chunking Mansions and stages a typhoon to…
Jimmy Warden made a name for himself with Cocaine Bear, a film so outrageous it had audiences both laughing and recoiling in shock. Now, he’s taking the helm as director with Borderline, a dark comedy…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. For decades, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz were Australian film review…