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Your ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and what’s on through December

Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve picked out some highlights for Melbourne in December

The Guardian - AU · Dec 8, 2022

You need to watch the most chilling religious thriller on Amazon Prime ASAP

As big-budget films use climate change as an excuse for spectacle, director Paul Schrader digs into its effect on the human heart.

Inverse · Dec 8, 2022

Robert Duvall’s 20 best performances – ranked!

From the horse’s head in The Godfather to the smell of napalm in Apocalypse Now, no one does chilling menace like the 91-year-old Oscar-winner. With the release this month of his new film, we rate his greatest roles

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2022

Movie review: Brendan Fraser shines in murky drama 'The Whale'

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” adapted from the play by Samuel D. Hunter (who also wrote the screenplay), about an obese man reckoning with his life over the course of a week, is a morally and emotionally messy film. It is so challenging to puzzle out the muddled messaging of…

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer doesn't care about its "cultural footprint"

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer Jon Landau dives into the innovations behind James Cameron's new sequel, and defends against movie's lack of a footprint.

Inverse · Dec 7, 2022

Prince Harry mocked for being ‘under Meghan’s thumb’ in cheeky Christmas panto dig

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry found themselves the butt of a joke just 48hrs before their bombshell Netflix documentary series airs with the Royal Family being warned to brace themselves

Daily Mirror · Dec 7, 2022

Netflix’s new No 1 film is a strange, schlocky B-movie. Here’s why that’s a good thing

The Norwegian monster movie ‘Troll’ isn’t to everybody’s liking, writes Louis Chilton – but its success is a sign that Netflix could be starting to revolutionise the general public’s attitude towards foreign-language films

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

‘Silly, soggy’ or ‘screamingly good’? First responses to Avatar: The Way of Water emerge

While some critics were bowled over by the grand spectacle after the London world premiere, others including the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw found it far from thrilling

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2022

The 50 best movies of 2022 in the US – 50 to 1

We made it! The No 1 film is here and it’s a stunning directorial debut, inarguably one of the finest cinematic moments of any year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2022

Hex review – musical Sleeping Beauty casts a darkly dazzling spell

No theatrical effect is spared in this emotional show, which returns to Charles Perrault’s grisly and grief-ridden fairytale for inspiration

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2022