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Craig Mathieson

Craig Mathieson
Craig Mathieson is a television critic for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, an author, and the creator of the Binge-r streaming newsletter.


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December 18, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful ‘Roma’

Culture

This Academy Award favourite elevates the domestic to the monumental

December 4, 2018

‘The Little Drummer Girl’: a masterclass in subterfuge

Culture

‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook takes on a le Carré spy drama, with genre-rattling results

December 1, 2018

‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

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For their Netflix debut, the Coen brothers return to the Western

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November 6, 2018

Orson Welles’s ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and Morgan Neville’s ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’

Culture

The auteur’s messy mockumentary and the documentary that seeks to explain it are imperfect but better together

September 21, 2018

Paul Feig’s sophisticated ‘A Simple Favour’

Culture

This camp study of sociopathy is far from simple

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September 11, 2018

Benedict Cumberbatch is perfect as the imperfect Patrick Melrose

Culture

The actor brings together his trademark raffishness and sardonic superiority in this searing miniseries

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August 10, 2018

‘Sharp Objects’ blurs the edges

Culture

The cruel complexities of women’s lives propel this Amy Adams-led thriller

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July 12, 2018

Duals duel in ‘Counterpart’

Culture

J.K. Simmons goes through the looking glass in this science-fiction espionage series

Image from Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’, season 2
June 29, 2018

‘Queer Eye’ has its finger firmly on America’s jagged pulse

Culture

The uncommonly caring makeover show returns to Netflix for a second season

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