The tale of Sandra’s aspirations also becomes one of infectious community spirit as the proceedings take on the tone of an old-fashioned barn raising.

"Gun and a Hotel Bible" is entertaining, well-acted, thought-provoking and thematically, it is for mature audiences. I found it very engaging.

The value of Mank lies in the historical light it throws on Citizen Kane, the famous movie that is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece.

A steady focus on the believable characters who populate it elevates director Ric Roman Waugh’s engaging film above the status of a disaster movie.

Once the trial starts, the film becomes a terrific courtroom drama. The conversations between Abbie Hoffman and Hayden are brilliant.

Ms. Jackson has always shown herself to be an exacting and gifted artist, but Maud Horsham is the kind of role that requires much more out of a performer than just actorly craft. And that, happily, is what we get.

This is a mid-life crisis story wrapped in gauzy metaphysics.

It is the first Pixar film to feature an African-American actor.

As director Alison Ellwood shows in her briskly entertaining documentary, the band's members can explain away, with enormous charm, the naked ambition that made them the most successful "girl group" ever.

If you have ever lived with a family member who is dependent on alcohol or drugs or both, I think she's turned in an award-winning performance.

It relies on the familiar formula of a megalomaniac seeking global domination and the superhero determined to stop him in escapist fun.

It is hard to sustain two villains, when most Superhero, or Superheroine, films have just one, and this movie largely sustains its pace through outstanding special effects, which it delivers well.

It’s disappointing to find that Docter’s latest project, a blend of drama and comedy, while often funny, fails to make an impact similar to those of Toy Story, Up, or Inside Out.

Raising questions, not giving answers, Soul is an animated delight.

The ethnic, sectional and economic tensions of the Reconstruction era are explored in the epic adventure “News of the World”.

This is a home-grown movie of quality that authentically captures the Australian spirit of Jane Harper’s best-selling novel. As a thriller, the movie builds its tension slowly to a devastating finale that ties its subplots together.

Probably too sweet for many an audience, but probably engagingly sweet for many more. And, a bit of a change, in fact, to see a young couple so lovingly committed with a wedding ceremony as one of the most significant events of their lives.

But, for a film released in 2020, it is in the vein of Black Lives Matter. It is a condemnation of those who have preserve the racist attitudes of the past – where white supremacist violence can erupt.

This is the kind of documentary that can be described as “consciousness-raising”. But the “raising” is only part of the exercise – “consciousness-challenging” is the important factor.

This is a personal drama of two women in a relationship.