Film

Andrew Dominik’s film Blonde distorts the myth of Marilyn Monroe to a cheap display of her suffering.

The French police procedural The Night of the 12th is purportedly an exposé of misogyny, but in the end it’s all about the man.

David Cronenberg’s body horror film Crimes of the Future is a stale recycling of old ideas.

Thomas M. Wright’s film The Stranger unflinchingly explores a landscape colonised by evil.

Del Kathryn Barton’s work in film and visual art draws from intensely personal experiences.

MIFF boasts some treasures in the depths of its 2022 program.

Jordan Peele’s latest film, Nope, harks back to Spielbergian spectacle as it explores the exploitation of pain.

Director Goran Stolevski, whose film Of an Age opened the Melbourne International Film Festival, is having a dream year.

Charlotte Rampling has made a career from channelling her powerful sex appeal into confronting and risky roles.

Benediction, Terence Davies’ film about the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, is a fascinating failure.