Really enjoyed this. As did the fam. Anchored by an ensemble that share delightful chemistry, undoubtedly the film's greatest strength, Happyend captures a pessimism-fuelled hedonism and the rally against this that is present amongst today's youth. To his credit, Sora and his team made great casting decisions (the two leads especially, you can't take your eyes off) and centred the film around the relationships and faultlines that develop in them as the teens approach the end of school and a…

Reminiscent of Night Moves, but instead of a bang it ended with a whimper. Reichardt always interested in lives on the margins. Had the sense that she didn't like JB too much, not for the crime, but for the way he went about it, the way he treats others, his selfishness.

The backdrop of Vietnam, which in typical Reichardt fashion could just as well go unnoticed, is central to the film, what it pivots around. JB is arrested not for…

Felt more like a comedy than a documentary and the best kind at that, which laughs with its characters rather than at them. This fusing of form felt new and exciting; people from the real world populated a film with the charm, quirkiness and beauty of a Wes Anderson piece, though without the intellectual self-satisfaction. If you were writing a comedy you couldn't come up with characters like this.
That said, we only met the dinner party version of these…

would fit the brief for a 'cinematic' louis theroux. buoyed by exceptional camerawork and an excellent cast of characters, Flathead is something of an ode to regional Australia and yet also a warning sign, a picture of what is to come.

it seems a tad confused between narrative and perceptory modes, perhaps becoming over-reliant on music to compensate for this confused, hybrid atmosphere (not to take away from the quality of the score).

the film is at its best when…