FOUR STARS A billionaire businessman has caused a chain of climate catastrophes. Now he's trying to save humanity, and maybe make a buck or two along the way. COMEDY DRAMA US English #DIGGERMOVIE Starring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed Climate change has provided fertile ground for cinematic satire, from the suburban absurdities of DOWNSIZING to the apocalyptic finger-pointing of DON’T LOOK UP! Alejandro González Iñárritu joins that lineage with a considerably bigger shovel, digging

THREE STARS A Danish architect wins a competition to design a new monument for Paris. It goes well until politicians and bureaucrats weigh in on the project. PERIOD DRAMA FRANCE French #LAGRANDEARCHE Starring Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen Australian audiences will feel an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu watching THE GREAT ARCH. Here is the story of attempting to build a grand architectural vision while politicians and bean-counters try to square the curve. Leaders want sta

THREE AND A HALF STARS Wile E. Coyote has had enough of ACME products exploding in his face. He gets lawyered up and takes on the corporation. COMEDY ANIMATION US English #COYOTEVSACME Starring Wile E. Coyote (Genius), Will Forte Anyone who grew up believing that Wile E. Coyote was a victim of poor product testing rather than his own questionable engineering was on to something. Frustrated by the failure of his latest rocket boots, Wile hires a lawyer in that weird nexus wher

THREE AND A HALF STARS Young Nico is sent to spend the summer with his great aunt in Sicily. The first thing she does is confiscate his mobile phone. PERIOD DRAMA ITALY Italian #GIOIAMIA Starring Marco Fiore, Aurora Quattrocchi There’s a considerable amount to like about SWEETHEART (GiIOIA MIA), Margherita Spampinato’s gentle coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old Roman boy, Nico (Marco Fiore), sent to spend the summer with his great-aunt Gela (Aurora Quattrocchi) in a

THREE AND A HALF STARS France falls to the Nazis. In exile, General De Gaulle foments a resistance movement that would change the course of the war. PERIOD DRAMA FRANCE French #DEGAULLE Starring Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale DE GAULLE: RESISTANCE is an ambitious and surprisingly gripping historical epic which makes its considerable running time feel rather less daunting than it has any right to. This is a defiantly mounted first chapter in a larger story, charting Char

TWO AND A HALF STARS An ambassador has died as has the husband of an aristocrat. Could the two events be related? Fortunately Detective Maigret is on the case. DRAMA FRANCE French #MAIGRET Starring Denis Podalydès, Irene Jacob The sheen in which Pascal Bonitzer has wrapped MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER is a delight of nostalgia-France, from the trench coat and pipe, to the cafés, galleries and restaurants. Denis Podalydès makes a terrific Maigret, all weary stares and Gallic imp