In light of recent events
Zoom of Doom! What have we done to deserve this?

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He is risen!

Anna GoldsworthyKeeping mum about the Easter Bunny

Rough draught

Robert SkinnerKeeping up appearances during periods of homelessness

Still from ‘The Platform’

Consolations in isolation: ‘The Platform’ and ‘Free in Deed’

Shane DanielsenWhat is the future of cinema without cinemas?

Image of Parliament House, March 24, 2020

What lessons will we learn from the virus?

Don WatsonHope is essential, but optimism can be deadly

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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

Image of WA Premier Mark McGowan earlier this week announcing the state will reopen its border to the rest of the country on February 5, after almost two years of border closures. Image © Richard Wainwright / AAP Images

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

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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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Raising the stakes: ‘Firebite’

Craig MathiesonWarwick Thornton’s magnificently pulpy Indigenous vampire-hunter drama leads the pack of December streaming highlights

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