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MIFF 2024 | ‘Oddity’ review: A monstrously good, multi-hyphenate horror feature
Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/21/24 Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/21/24

MIFF 2024 | ‘Oddity’ review: A monstrously good, multi-hyphenate horror feature

Writer-director Damian Mc Carthy’s second feature film is an intricately-crafted, genre-hopping cabinet of horrific curiosities.

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MIFF 2024 | ‘The Shrouds’ review: David Cronenberg’s confounding exploration of personal grief
Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/19/24 Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/19/24

MIFF 2024 | ‘The Shrouds’ review: David Cronenberg’s confounding exploration of personal grief

The Canadian body-horror maestro returns with a perplexing autobiographical thanatopsis that loses sight of itself within its own half-baked subplots.

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MIFF 2024 | ‘The Girl With the Needle’ review: A bleak look at women’s rights… and women’s wrongs
Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/16/24 Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/16/24

MIFF 2024 | ‘The Girl With the Needle’ review: A bleak look at women’s rights… and women’s wrongs

Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competition debut is a slightly muddled but nonetheless thought-provoking and pertinent arthouse horror hybrid.

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MIFF 2024 | ‘Dying’ review: Shaky family tragicomedy that still sticks its landing
Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/16/24 Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/16/24

MIFF 2024 | ‘Dying’ review: Shaky family tragicomedy that still sticks its landing

Headed by a revelatory Lars Eidinger, Matthias Glasner’s autopsy of the nuclear family project handles its existentially weighty themes with equal pathos and panache.

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MIFF 2024 | ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ review: A rip-roaringly funny love letter to the arts
Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/15/24 Entertainment, Review, Film and TV, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 Nestor Kok 8/15/24

MIFF 2024 | ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ review: A rip-roaringly funny love letter to the arts

A vibrant, fascinating, and heartfelt look at the human drive to form communities — virtual or otherwise — in times of strife.

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