Australian cinema has long punched above its weight, from the New Wave of the 1970s through to sharp contemporary work like Balibo and the tender coming-of-age story My First Summer. It has a knack for grounding big emotions in sun-bleached, unsparing landscapes. Browse Macca's Australian reviews below.
Rating: 3.0★
I will be the first to admit that my viewing habits can lead me down some genuinely strange rabbit holes, and The Golden Spurtle is about as deep into the rabbit hole as I have ever gone. A documentary about the World Porridge Championships. I watched it. I watched all
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching Cannibal Tours where you catch one of these Western tourists driving a hard bargain over a handcrafted artefact, chipping away at the price with a smile on their face, completely at ease with themselves, and you feel your stomach drop. Not because of anything
Rating: 3.5★
There's a particular kind of dread that comes from watching something go horribly wrong on live television. Late Night with the Devil, directed by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, understands that completely, and it weaponises it to genuinely unsettling effect. I went in completely blind, as I always try
Rating: 3.5★
Let me be upfront about something: I never quite clicked with Fury Road. I know that puts me in a minority, and I know the reaction I get when I say it. But it's true. I found it relentless in a way that felt exhausting rather than exhilarating,
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Mad Max: Fury Road fully expecting to join the chorus of rapturous praise. The reputation precedes it like a shockwave. And yet, somewhere in the middle of its relentless, thundering two hours, I found myself not thrilled, but exhausted. Not dazzled,
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in You Won't Be Alone where the landscape itself feels like a character, brooding and enormous and indifferent to the tiny, violent lives being lived across it. That image lodged in my head. It's the kind of film that gets
Genre Action
★½ — Street Fighter (1994)
Genre Documentary
Ocean with David Attenborough (2025)
Genre Horror
★★★ — We Bury the Dead (2024)
Genre Animation
★★½ — Bluey at the Cinema: Playdates with Friends (2026)
Genre Fantasy
★★½ — Babe (1995)
Genre Drama
★★ — My First Summer (2020)
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