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Ryo Nishikawa as eight-year-old Hana in Evil Does Not Exist.

Drive My Car won him an Oscar. Now he’s tackling the battle between nature and capitalism

The enemy may or may not be glamping in director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s stirring new eco-parable.

  • by Stephanie Bunbury
The film follows single father Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) and his young daughter Hana (Ryo Nishiwara) in the rural village of Mizubiki.
★★★½
Review

Drive My Car director changes gear with this slow-building forest tale

Oscar nominee Ryusuke Hamaguchi has made an intriguing film, but is it a gently satirical comedy of urban and rural manners, an eco-philosophical fable or something else?

  • by Jake Wilson
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TV & radio

The rebooted Neighbours.

Emmysborough: Australia’s Neighbours cracks daytime TV’s big time

The long-running soap opera has become the first Australian TV drama to be nominated at America’s annual Daytime Emmys.

  • by Michael Idato
Richard Gadd plays a bartender whose life is invaded by an obsessive, lonely patron in Baby Reindeer, which is based on his one-man show of the same name.
★★★★½
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Netflix’s Baby Reindeer is standout, must-watch TV

A comedian was relentlessly stalked by a lonely woman. He turned his experience into this gripping autobiographical drama.

  • by Craig Mathieson

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MICF Composite

The best heckles, riskiest jokes and most tender moments from this year’s comedy festival

  • by Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024 composite

It’s the final weekend of the comedy festival: Here are the shows not to miss

  • by Lefa Singleton Norton, John Bailey, Sonia Nair, Mikey Cahill, Hannah Francis, Tyson Wray, Cher Tan, Cameron Woodhead, Donna Demaio, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Guy Webster

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