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The 25 best action movies on Netflix Australia
Featuring everything from assassins to cops, thieves, fugitives and cowboys.
22 Jul
Luke Buckmaster
Luke Buckmaster is the editor of Flicks.com.au. In addition to writing for Flicks, he is film critic for Guardian Australia and author of Miller and Max: George Miller and the Making of a Film Legend.
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Nicolas Cage goes whole hog in Pig, delivering a morosely understated performance
Nicolas Cage delivers one of his most acclaimed performances in years as a truffle forager searching for his pig.
20 Jul
features
Space Jam: A New Legacy isn’t a bad movie – because it’s not really a movie
The belated sequel is less a movie than a video game you can’t play and a theme park you can’t explore.
09 Jul
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Blandly bombastic sci-fi The Tomorrow War cries out for a world with more buff science teachers
A snappy, silly spectacle may have hit the spot – but this llloonnngggg and heavy spectacle will test your patience.
05 Jul
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Monsters Inc. is the Pixar franchise you never knew was a metaphor about climate change
Seriously, hear us out. It’s not so crazy…
29 Jun
features
15 years on, Children of Men is still a knuckle-gobbling dystopian masterpiece
Grim, thrilling, illuminating, inspiring…this film will never get old.
22 Jun
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Storytelling magic’s in short supply in Pixar’s pretty but shallow Luca
Pixar’s visually lavish coming-of-age film is sweet but pea-brained.
21 Jun
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Sweet Tooth is a beautiful apocalyptic fantasy with the worldbuilding spirit of a video game
It’s topical, because it’s got a pandemic. And it’s pretty bloody cute, because it’s cute human/animal children.
02 Jun
features
The 25 best action movies on Stan
There is, to put it in the most elegant way possible, a stinkload of great action movies to watch on Stan.
28 May
features
Does Army of the Dead do justice to the zombie movie ethos?
Zombies have organisational abilities and even fashion sense. Does this constitute innovation or heresy?
25 May
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The Leonard Cohen-inspired Death of a Ladies’ Man makes brain tumours seem almost pleasurable
Gabriel Byrne plays a poetry professor whose days are numbered in this funny, sad and bittersweet film.
21 May
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Nicolas Cage’s son Weston talks to us about playing a wicked Russian and his dad’s explosive style
Weston Cage Coppola, who belongs to Hollywood royalty, politely tolerates our obsessing over his father.
14 May
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In her directorial debut Land, Robin Wright goes off the grid and into heavy-handed cliché
Robin Wright ditches city life and heads for the sticks in a film that’s subtle in some ways but very heavy-handed in others.
04 May
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Seriousness and silliness collide in the popcorn spectacle of Mortal Kombat
Everybody’s hanging out for those grotesque nuggets of gold we call ‘fatalities’.
23 Apr
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The unpredictable Shadow in The Cloud is an airborne genre-bending riot
Gender politics, popcorn thrills and gremlins combine to make an unusually entertaining WWII movie.
20 Apr
features
The 25 best comedy movies on Netflix Australia
We’ve combed through the Netflix archives to find the very best comedy movies on offer.
15 Apr
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Oscar-nominated documentary Collective follows a riveting and terrifying scandal
Nominated for both Best Documentary and Best International Feature, this eye-widening exposé beggars belief.
13 Apr
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Willy’s Wonderland is a weirdly entertaining experiment in the laboratory of Nicolas Cage
The best film you’ve ever seen about Nic Cage beating up demonic animatronic creatures that come alive in the dead of night.
09 Apr
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Godzilla vs Kong is an impressive cinematic spectacle with a story like a malfunctioning robot
Sure, it isn’t going to win Best Picture, but nor is this sensory-smothering film devoid of virtues.
25 Mar
features
Avengers directors the Russo brothers made the latest Fortnite intro – should we care?
What does the latest Fortnite intro say about the current state of cinema and gaming?
23 Mar
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Bruce Willis struggles to stay awake in the klutzy sci-fi Cosmic Sin
Bruce Willis barely seems capable of staying awake let alone saving the world.
16 Mar
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