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Meritocracy rules in ‘Booksmart’
Those who work hard learn to play hard in Olivia Wilde’s high-school comedy
Streaming highlights: June 2019
‘Dark’ makes a wild return, ‘Good Omens’ approaches the apocalypse lightly, ‘City on a Hill’ moves beyond the crime genre’s prerequisites, and new ‘Black Mirror’
The German musician presides over a suitably unpredictable evening
‘The Other Americans’ by Laila Lalami
An accidental death in a tale of immigrant generations highlights fractures in the promise of America
Cai Guo-Qiang’s ‘The Transient Landscape’ at the National Gallery of Victoria
The incendiary Chinese artist connects contemporary concerns with cultural history
All veils and misty: Richard Lowenstein’s ‘Mystify: Michael Hutchence’
The insider documentary that wipes clear the myths obscuring the INXS singer
Art life: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s ‘Never Look Away’ and Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’
By barely disguising an account of the life of Gerhard Richter, the German director fails the artist and filmgoers
Mungo MacCallum: A true journalistic believer
Celebrating the contribution of an Australian media legend
Dark Mofo 2019: The Dirty Three and Phurpa
Two bands conjure different degrees of devilishness on a Sunday in Hobart
On the problematic hotness of Andrew Scott’s Hot Priest