The 2010s were defined by a tension between blockbuster spectacle and a quiet surge in world cinema, with films like Inception and Parasite sitting at opposite ends of a very wide spectrum. Streaming reshaped how audiences found smaller work, and festival circuits felt more vital than ever. Browse Macca's reviews from the decade below.
Rating: 3.0★
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of those filmmakers I find genuinely hard to stop thinking about. There's a quality to his work, the way he uses deep focus and elongated shots to make you feel something lurking just outside the frame, that keeps pulling me back. Even when a
Rating: 3.0★
There's a certain kind of cinema that doesn't just ask you to suspend your disbelief. It grabs you by the collar and drags you headfirst into the chaos. Hardcore Henry is exactly that kind of film, and from the very first frame, it makes absolutely no
Rating: 3.0★
Sometimes you put a film on for the kids and you end up genuinely enjoying it yourself. That's exactly what happened with Trolls. I wasn't expecting much beyond keeping the little ones occupied for ninety minutes, and instead I found myself tapping my foot and laughing
Rating: 4.5★
There's a moment early in Mustang where five sisters play in the sea with their male classmates, laughing and splashing in the kind of uncomplicated, sun-drenched joy that feels utterly universal. By the time that same afternoon is used against them, recast as scandal and shame by
Rating: 2.0★
There's a moment in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives where a man sits at a dinner table making polite conversation with the ghost of his dead wife and the glowing-eyed spirit of his long-lost son, and everyone just... gets on with it. No
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: 3.5★
That closing scene. You know the one. A father sits with his son and says, without judgement, without awkwardness, exactly what any young person in pain needs to hear. It's one of the finest scenes I've watched in a very long time, and it alone would
Rating: 2.5★
When Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais unleashed The Raid on the world in 2011, the response was somewhere between astonishment and mild disbelief. A Welsh director working in Indonesia with a relatively modest budget had produced one of the most viscerally efficient action films in years, a single-location siege
Rating: 4.0★
There are sporting failures, and then there is conceding thirty-one goals in a single match. If you know anything about American Samoa's football team going into this documentary, you know that number. It hung over them for years, a punchline in highlight reels, a shorthand for sporting
Rating: 3.0★
There's a particular kind of documentary that doesn't try to dazzle you, doesn't reach for a grand rhetorical flourish, and doesn't resolve into a satisfying conclusion. Island Soldier is that kind of film, and I mean that as both a compliment and
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment in Cachada: The Opportunity when you realise the film you're watching has quietly become something else entirely. What started as a modest community project, five female street vendors gathering for a spot of amateur dramatics framed as a lighthearted empowerment exercise, has turned
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Ema where the camera just sits with its subject as she moves through a neon-lit Santiago street, reggaeton thumping beneath her, and you realise you're not going to be given any easy way into this woman. She's magnetic
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