Sandra Hall

Sydney

Film Critic at Sydney Morning Herald

Film Critic at The Age

Film critic Sydney Morning Herald, author of fiction and non-fiction books

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Articles

The Great Lillian Hall takes us into the heart of acting and obsession

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

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Wes Anderson at his glorious best sends Benicio del Toro on an odyssey

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME★★★★M. 101 minutes. In cinemas May 29Wes Anderson’s films can make you feel as if you’ve stumbled into the pages of a global encyclopaedia of perverse facts. Such is the weirdness of the worlds he constructs.
Farming left them in deep debt – so they let nature take back the land

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WILDING ★★★½(PG) 75 minutesIsabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, were deep in debt when they stopped farming 25 years ago. Their soil, which was never very fertile, had been further degraded by pesticides, fertiliser and all the other chemicals they had been using to coax their crops to grow.
The movie about Aussie surfers being mean to Nicolas Cage is finally here. Is it good?

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

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Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs play challenged couple on 1000-kilometre trek

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE SALT PATH★★★★M. 115 minutes. In cinemas May 15I spent much of The Salt Path in a nervous sweat. From the very beginning, it seems like a story that’s going to end in a screen awash with tears. It’s about a slow-going marathon – a 1000-kilometre walk along Britain’s West Coast undertaken by Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as a couple who have hit hard times.
French musical biopic delivers richly realised portrait of an icon

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR★★★½M, 134 minutes. In cinemas MAY 8Musical biopics have been enjoying a sporadic romance with the box office for a long time. It climaxed for the first time in 2005 with Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash story, and rose to an all-time high with Rami Malek’s turn as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
Famed for her can-do characters, Marta Dusseldorp unravels

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Sandra Hall

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Famed for her can-do characters, Marta Dusseldorp unravels

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

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Famed for her can-do characters, Marta Dusseldorp unravels

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Sandra Hall

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This light-hearted, rhythmic tear-jerker from New Zealand is a gem

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sandra Hall

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. TINA★★★★M. 124 minutes. In cinemas May 1Mareta Percival is the first Polynesian teacher to work at St Francis Assisi, an elite Christchurch private school, and its deputy head does not approve, which doesn’t bother Mareta at all.