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15 must-see movies from the Sydney Film Festival 2025

1 week ago | flicks.co.nz | Eliza Janssen

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.
Reflecting on Matariki and Kōkā, an Aotearoa road movie like no other

1 week ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

| Dir: Kath Akuhata-Brown Coming to cinemas 19 June Aotearoa lends itself to the road movie. The world already knows about the country’s photogenic landscapes thanks to Sir Peter Jackson’s LotR trilogy, but perhaps less is known about New Zealand’s homegrown history with the genre, from Geoff Murphy’s comedically chaotic Goodbye Pork Pie to Gillian Ashurst’s hitchhiker thriller Snakeskin and Himiona Grace’s muso-drama The Pā Boys.
Surfers and sharks: A unique Aussie masculinity lurks under the surface

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Matt Glasby

Australian cinema has long benefitted from how Aussie ideas of masculinity contrast with the archetypes put forward by the American cinematic tradition. At a glance, speaking superficially and generally, Australian males could be ideally characterised as toughened frontiersman, and not a million miles away from the defining masculine American cinematic archetype: the cowboy.
Reactions from our sparkling premiere of starry romance Materialists

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Eliza Janssen

| Dir: Celine Song Coming to cinemas 12 June Statisticians have confirmed it: 96% of moviegoers are in love with at least one of Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal or Chris Evans (and why stop at just one?). And, since we loved the hell out of filmmaker Celine Song’s Oscar-nominated feature debut Past Lives , we were over the moon at hosting a premiere that sees all these talents team up.
How to… be a film critic

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Clarisse Loughrey

Good criticism is rare, and should be cherished. With 20 years’ experience behind him, and almost as many failed publications, Matt Glasby offers some three-star advice. To write meaningfully about a subject—any subject—you need to know as much about it as possible. So watch, and read, as widely as you can. If you’re not sure where to begin, pick a best of list (Flicks, IMDB, Sight & Sound, BFI) and work your way through it.
Twin Peaks predicted the spectacular collapse of America’s myths about itself

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

It’s not new, but Twin Peaks is as great as ever – maybe more so as we continue to mourn Lynch and his vision. | 8 episodes Everyone talks about the one-of-a-kindness of Twin Peaks. Oft imitated, never replicated. Mother to all of television’s prestige dramas, each of them craning their necks up, trying to taste some of that same greatness. And many have, to some degree. But not in the same way. And not, I’d argue, with the same intensity of feeling.
K.O. adds to Netflix’s punchy lineup of French action flicks

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

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.
Watch our full Bring Her Back interview with Danny and Michael Philippou

3 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Luke Buckmaster

| Dir: Michael Philippou, Danny Philippou Now that you’ve had the chance to see Bring Her Back, the new horror from Talk To Me filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, you can see and hear the brothers themselves as they chat with Flicks editor Steve Newall.
Ocean with David Attenborough is a softly-spoken sledgehammer

3 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

Oceans rise; empires fall; fashions come and go. But the mighty David Attenborough remains. The beloved biologist and broadcaster is 99-years-old and still in fine form, presenting Ocean with David Attenborough, a powerful new documentary assessing the devastating global impact of overfishing and in particular bottom trawling. If this were anybody else, I might’ve woven into that previous sentence “and shows no signs of slowing down.” But was ol’ Atto in a hurry?
Bono: Stories of Surrender is a good film

3 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Clarisse Loughrey

Anybody who’s watched a film in an IMAX cinema, partly shot using IMAX cameras, understands how changes in aspect ratio can trigger a visceral response. For the uninitiated, here’s what happens. The film unfolds in the ordinary widescreen format, until suddenly, when an IMAX-shot moment begins, the screen expands vertically into a deeper, more immersive format, reaching down down down and up up up, occupying substantially more of your vision. You feel that change in your gut.