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: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Dunkirk where the camera simply pulls back and you see it: hundreds of thousands of men, packed onto a beach, staring out at a sea that offers no obvious salvation. No character tells you how bad things are. No general delivers a grim
Rating: 3.0★
The cover art had me completely fooled. Something about the imagery suggested I was in for a horror film, the kind that lingers in your peripheral vision and makes you uneasy in the dark. So when Antoneta Kastrati's Zana revealed itself to be something else entirely, something far
Rating: 0.5★
I want to be fair here, I genuinely do. Oman doesn't have a deep or sprawling cinema history, so the fact that this fifteen-minute short by Anirban Ray is considered one of the most popular films from the nation isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of
Rating: 3.5★
There is a massive, glaring blind spot on the global map that most of us simply look right past. You know the kind: a place that flickers occasionally onto your radar in a news ticker, then vanishes again before you can even locate it. Iara Lee's 2015 documentary
Rating: 3.5★
Seventy million dollars. For sixteen minutes. Let that sink in for a moment. The Audition, Martin Scorsese's 2015 short film, was reportedly bankrolled by Macau casino groups to that frankly staggering sum, and when you first hear that figure, your brain does a little somersault. But then the
Rating: 2.5★
There's a specific, sun-drenched haze to Bruce Robinson's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, and unfortunately it mostly just obscures a deeply average film. You sit there watching the warm Puerto Rican light bounce off rum bottles and white beaches, and
Rating: 3.0★
I still maintain that the 1979 The Muppet Movie is a near-masterpiece of joy, and I'd happily extend that warmth to The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island as solid, fun detours in the same spirit. So when James Bobin's 2011 reboot landed, I
Rating: 3.5★
There's a particular image of Polynesian culture that documentaries and films have spent years carefully constructing, and I'll be honest, I've largely bought into it. Films like Kumu Hina painted a genuinely beautiful picture of a society where transgender individuals aren't merely
Rating: 3.5★
Ten days. Think about that for a second. Just ten days after East Timor gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Indonesia moved in and began over two decades of brutal occupation. It's one of those historical facts that stops you cold, and it's one that
Rating: 3.5★
I still remember the sheer surprise of John Wick dropping out of nowhere in 2014. There was no real warning, no relentless marketing campaign hammering you into submission. It just arrived, and within about fifteen minutes I was completely hooked. The reason is pretty simple: it didn't pretend
Rating: 3.5★
You don't just watch Midsommar. You get bludgeoned by it. From the very first frames, Ari Aster is coming for your senses with a relentless, sun-drenched assault that refuses to let you look away, even when every instinct is telling you to. And it starts with something
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching this film where you have to stop and remind yourself that what you're seeing is not fiction. An entire community on a tiny island in Vanuatu, genuinely, fervently waiting for a white American soldier called John Frum to descend from the sky
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