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'We cast five incredible women': Eric Bana on the powerful actors who make The Dry 2 great

Eric Bana stars as detective Aaron Falk in the second movie in The Dry series, adapted from Jane Harper's distinctly Australian murder mystery series.
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This riveting Oscar-nominated thriller features a perceptive dog and the sexiest lawyer in the Alps

Oscar nominee Anatomy of a Fall asks the question: how many times can a woman endure a 50 Cent instrumental before she loses her mind?
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Was he pushed? Did he slip? In Anatomy of a Fall, only a border collie knows the truth

Director-writer Justine Triet discusses the slipperiness of truth in her Palme D'Or-winning courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Fall.
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A film still of Samuel Theis as a dead body in blood-stained snow, with Sandra Hüller and Milo Machado Graner hugging nearby.

ICYMI: Jacob Elordi is very tall on SNL, the most hyped films from Sundance, and Pitchfork gutted

From the Minecraft movie to a juicy Brent Street reality show, here's all the latest entertainment news.
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A collage of brown staffy wearing a 'love is love' hankerchief; Jacob Elordi, plus Katy O'Brien and Kristen Stewart.

Huge new Michelle Yeoh series fuses black comedy and martial arts: The best of what to watch this January

New year new content! Here's what's good and new to streaming this month that you might not have heard of yet.
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Sydney Sweeney in Sydney Harbour, and other Boxing Day films to check out

Keen to see a Boxing Day movie but can't make a single extra decision for this year? Don't worry, our critics have got you.
Sydney Sweeney in a bikini goes in to kiss a shirtless Glen Powell

Joel Edgerton's new Hollywood film has divided critics — which he says is what its director wanted

The Australian actor hopes Master Gardener, the new film by veteran director and screenwriter Paul Schrader, will spark debate.
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Director John Woo presents his new holiday thriller 'Silent Night'

Hollywood action director John Woo discusses his new revenge-thriller 'Silent Night', an almost dialogue-free action movie for the festive season.
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Duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds

'Gonna have to be OK with male attention': Australian drinking culture through the eyes of two outsiders

The Royal Hotel probes the darker side of masculinity as magnified by a remote outback setting and alcohol consumption on a liver-defying scale — and evokes the spectre of horror without ever actually letting it loose.
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Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick squint in the outback, wearing huge backpacks, in the film The Royal Hotel.

'A great reckoning of our history': Leonardo DiCaprio talks Martin Scorsese's new film, Killers of The Flower Moon

Hollywood royalty Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro team up with Lily Gladstone to bring to the big screen the true events that rocked the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. 
Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro stand side-by-side in characters of Killers of the Moon film

Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated 'Oppenheimer' involves more than flicking a button to play out in IMAX 70mm

We take you behind the scenes to how the only copy if Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' in Australia, gets played out in IMAX Melbourne.
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Duration: 4 minutes 24 seconds

How the striking beauty of SA's Riverland helped inspire Netflix thriller Run Rabbit Run

South Australia's Hannah Kent is known globally for her novels. But when she began writing the script for Run Rabbit Run starring Sarah Snook, the landscape of Waikerie in her home state spoke to her.
A split image of actress Sarah Snook with fair skin and blond hair, and a view of the tree-lined Murray River from a cliff.

Cate Blanchett as a renegade nun, Meg Ryan in an erotic thriller: Sydney Film Festival highlights

In its 70th year, the festival program boasts almost 300 films — from international heavy hitters and award-winners to lesser-known gems and trailblazing debuts. Here are nine you can't miss.
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Cate Blanchett, a middle-aged white woman in a nun's habit, and Aswan Reid, a young Aboriginal boy, run through a wheat field.

This sci-fi horror starring Alexander Skarsgård is an orgiastic feast that will make you squirm

Following in his filmmaker father’s footsteps and riffing on the success of White Lotus and Triangle of Sadness, Brandon Cronenberg has made a stomach-churning holiday horror with Infinity Pool.
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Alexander Skarsgård, a white man with blonde hair is wearing sunglasses and a white striped shirt. He has cuts on his face.

The excesses of John Wick 4 starring Keanu Reeves almost make it an action movie masterpiece

The franchise may just be running out of ideas, as the vengeful hit man yet again incurs the wrath of the High Table in this fourth instalment. 
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Five Quentin Tarantino movies to watch ahead of his final film

The writer-director — who also often appears in his own films — is making his 10th and final film, called The Movie Critic. So, here are five Tarantino movies to watch ahead of his final release and where to see them.
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In 1985, a black bear gorged itself on cocaine until it died. Now, it's the subject of this movie

Starring Keri Russell and Ray Liotta (in his final film role), Cocaine Bear is a gory comedy-thriller inspired by a true story — but with more "murderous rampage" than "major renal failure".
White woman with brown hair screams and reaches for help on a forest floor while a large bear approaches from behind her.

Actor Ben Aldridge embraces queer roles in new films Spoiler Alert and Knock at the Cabin

Whether it's a thriller posing an impossible question, or a romantic tear jerker, actor Ben Aldridge has a new focus when choosing which projects he'll take on.
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Why M3GAN is the killer doll thriller you should take your 11-year-old cousin to see this summer

Allison Williams plays a robotics engineer who builds a protective playmate for her recently orphaned 9-year-old niece - but it’s the killer droid that steals the show in M3GAN.
A robotic human-size doll reads a fairytale book in a lounge room beside a small brunette white girl.

Will Smith's defiant return to the big screen comes nine months after his infamous Oscars ban

Based on the true story of an enslaved man known to history as "Whipped Peter", Civil War epic Emancipation is a sombre and haunting account of defiance in the face of white oppression.
A desaturated image of an upset-looking Black man. A white man in a hat is visible behind a fence behind him.

An expat journalist-turned-sex-worker is ensnared in an affair in this steamy, Nicaragua-set film

Cannes prize-winner Stars at Noon stars Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley as two expats consumed by a torrid love affair, against a backdrop of violence, corruption and intrigue.
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Christian Bale and Margot Robbie lead star lineup of eccentric characters in madcap comic thriller

The three play oddball friends in the latest film from Oscar-winning director David O. Russell, also starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek and Robert De Niro.
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White man with eye mask after a beating, white woman holding a pipe and Black man stand in front of wallpaper with yellow sun

Beyond the headlines and off-screen dramas, is Don’t Worry Darling actually any good?

Olivia Wilde’s controversy-plagued suburban thriller has been grabbing headlines for weeks but, despite a star turn from Florence Pugh, it fails to live up to the melodrama.
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Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart push the boundaries of pain and eroticism in body horror film

Surgery is entertainment and pain is a thing of the past in David Cronenberg's dystopian blend of neo-noir detective story and visceral body horror: Crimes of the Future. 
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A fascinating real-life controversy bogs down the movie adaptation of recent bestselling novel

The more compelling murder mystery occurs off screen in this adaptation of Delia Owens's 2018 book club favourite Where the Crawdads Sing.
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A long-haired brunette reaches out to grasp a white feather, with an entranced expression