The Final Cut is your guide to films worth talking about, big and small—from Hollywood blockbusters to the outer reaches of world cinema.
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Friday 8 Dec 2017
A panel discussion on this week's AACTA Awards, and a look back over the Australian screen industry in 2017.
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What makes Christmas movies tick?
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Friday 1 Dec 2017
Unlike contemporary action movies like John Wick or most comic book blockbusters, Only The Brave doesn’t come with a side order of self-deprecation.
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A look at the rise in French screen production, including a wonderful series set in downtown Paris about a group of passionate talent agents.
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Friday 24 Nov 2017
James Franco's The Disaster Artist is a tribute to one of the worst films ever made, The Room.
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The Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrate cinema from across the region in the broadest sense.
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Friday 17 Nov 2017
Yorgos Lanthimos imposes a detached, almost Brechtian coldness to the performances. The distancing effect echoes the Greek classical tradition.
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A celebration of the work of film stills photographers, a professional category often overlooked, but integral to film publicity since the very beginning.
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The 1980s in Czechoslovakia were bleak years, but a film like The Teacher reminds us how petty and personal the abuses of Soviet communism could be.
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The plot bounces around indifferently like a ball in the penalty box refusing to go in.
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Friday 10 Nov 2017
A notable attempt to take Australian genre filmmaking to more sophisticated terrain.
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Matthew Deaner gives us his thoughts on a couple of key issues facing the screen industries.
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Film academic Bruce Isaacs on the nostalgia and magic of Stranger Things.
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Friday 3 Nov 2017
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal wade in to the story with a fearless confidence
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This is a tender, astutely observed verite study of life in a benign institution.
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If you like your comedy set to light chuckle, you may enjoy this film.
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Friday 27 Oct 2017
Is this the funniest Marvel movie ever?
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A tense, moody naturalism frames a complex story.
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It’s the clumsiest, most inadvertently racist thing I’ve seen in a while.
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