Craig Mathieson
Music and Film Critic at Sydney Morning Herald
Music and Film Critic at The Age
Music and Film Critic at The Monthly
TV, music, and film critic for The Age/SMH and The Monthly. Creator of BINGE-R, which you should subscribe to right now. 📺📽️ Yes, it's on my list to watch.
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1 week ago |
smh.com.au | Craig Mathieson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eight years ago, aspiring filmmaker Cooper Raiff had an idea for a story about a pair of siblings bonded by their dysfunctional upbringing. Six years ago, the Texan native started writing about the characters, swiftly getting down an initial 100 pages.
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flicks.com.au | Stephen Russell |Luke Buckmaster |Eliza Janssen |Craig Mathieson
It was a little wetter and windier than usual when the Sydney Film Festival (SFF) embarked on its 72nd edition, but the inclement weather didn’t dampen my excitement. Determined to see as many movies as possible across the 12-day festival, these are my top picks likely heading to a cinema (or streamer) near you. Sirât Capital letters CINEMA, you literally feel Spanish-French filmmaker Óliver Laxe’s Moroccan desert-set epic in your bones.
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2 weeks ago |
smh.com.au | Craig Mathieson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Few movie stars have come to streaming with more subversive purpose than Taron Egerton. The British actor, empowered by the Kingsman action-comedies and the Elton John biopic Rocketman, has used the 2022 Apple TV+ crime drama Black Bird and now this twisty, unconventional investigative thriller to play flawed men who want to believe they’re the hero of their story.
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2 weeks ago |
flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Luke Buckmaster |Craig Mathieson |Travis Johnson
A new film just landed on Netflix with the hopes of kickstarting a UFC fighter’s acting career. And it might just work, not only because he turns out to be a watchable actor, but because the film itself is yet another punchy French action flick currently populating the streaming platform. Get a whiff of France’s latest slab of Netflix action as well as similar bone-crunchers from the country of love to add to your Flicks watchlist.
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3 weeks ago |
smh.com.au | Craig Mathieson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mix Tape is all about the wonder. First love, favourite songs and inescapable heartbreak are the building blocks of this Irish-Australian romantic drama. Ricocheting between past and present, the teenage protagonists and their middle-aged successors, these four hour-long episodes have an inexorable momentum. It’s not subtle, but it’s effective.
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In its fourth season SUCCESSION is only getting funnier, more concisely cutting, and bitterly tragic. My Age/SMH review - from the first four episodes - of what shapes as a definitive final season of television's best show. https://t.co/tTbiiM6WRU
Disney+'s ANDOR - one of the best new shows of the year - is the subject of my final Age/SMH TV critic's column. After 11 years of fortnightly verdicts I'm moving across to the weekly streaming reviews page. https://t.co/DIQI5ARTiI
ANDOR tops my streaming wrap for @THEMONTHLY: the first essential STAR WARS series. #Andor https://t.co/HgZOlFEHAD