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Dot-to-dot puzzle of the challenge beyond our Pentecostal PM’s thoughts and prayers

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Bodak moment: Pop’s decade of superstars

Anwen CrawfordCardi B delivered the song of the decade as a new league of superstars overcame the significance of bands

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Water water

Patrick LauGOMA’s ‘Water’ exhibition brings an Icelandic stream indoors in Brisbane

Utagawa Yoshimori, The Tongue-cut Sparrow [detail]

‘Japan supernatural’

Miriam CosicThe Art Gallery of NSW’s examination of Japan’s centuries-long artistic traditions depicting the spirit world and the macabre

Ready to rumble

Jeff SparrowCrowds cheer on the destructive prowess of Pot Head and Wanda at the Robowars National Championship

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‘Girl from the North Country’

Steve DowWeaving Bob Dylan songs into a story of Depression-era hardship, Conor McPherson’s musical speaks to the broken America of today

Still from ‘The Worst Person in the World’, showing Anders Danielsen Lie as Aksel and Renate Reinsve as Julie. Image courtesy Everett Collection.

‘The Worst Person in the World’

Michelle WangRenate Reinsve is exceptional in Joachim Trier’s satisfying Nordic rom-com

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Family’s grief compounded by WA’s hard border

Martin McKenzie-MurrayThe awful predicament of a Melbourne family unable to bring home their son’s body shows the callousness of WA’s border policy

Image of Liliane Amuat and Henriette Confurius in Ramon and Sylvan Zürcher’s film The Girl and the Spider. Image supplied

The best of 2021 on screen

Shane DanielsenThis year may have been difficult to live through, but it produced an extraordinary crop of films

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