At The Movies

Michelle Langstone reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, as Thomas Mann and daughter Erika return to a war-ruined Germany in 1949, and the restored concert film George Michael: The Faith Tour. Plus she adds films Wicker and You Can See Everything.

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The film Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is reportedly India's most expensive film ever made with an estimated budget of around 420 million US Dollars ..the three hour blockbuster has just opened in cinemas in New Zealand. Jesse is joined by RNZ Asia's Blessen Tom and Afternoons film critic Kate Rodger.

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Afternoons film critic Kate Rodger is with Jesse in the Auckland studio to talk to us about what's on at the movies. This week Kate reviews Prime Time and Pressure (both on in cinemas)

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Afternoons critic Dominic Corry is with Jesse to share his views on: You Can See Everything - in NZ cinemas from Thursday November 12 Godzilla Minus Zero - in cinemas now.

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Dan Slevin reviews Wicker, a fable starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård about a husband woven from wicker; You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary; and Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins Emile Donovan on Nights every Thursday, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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Wild Horse Nine (written and directed Martin McDonagh). Two CIA agents working to destabilise the left wing Allende government in Chile in 1973 take a week long break on Rapa Nui where their pasts and futures will collide and one may not make it...

Kate Rodger reviews Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson in an unauthorised biopic of Chris Hansen; Pressure, with Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower and Andrew Scott as meteorologist James Stagg; and Black Sheeps, the sequel to 2006’s Black Sheep.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins Emile Donovan on Nights every Thursday, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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The 2026 British and Irish Film Festival started yesterday across the country

Dan previews three of the 25 titles in the programme: WICKER ; THE THREE URNS  and DEREK VS DEREK 

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Michelle Langstone reviews Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, a moving Disney+ documentary on the Gallagher brothers’ reunion; Norm: The Tale of Norm MacDonald, Judd Apatow’s melancholy portrait of the comedian; and Animals, Ben Affleck’s gripping kidnap thriller on Netflix.

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Afternoons critic Dominic Corry is with Jesse in the Auckland studio to share the movies he's been watching: Clayface (in cinemas) Wildwood (in cinemas)

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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The Last Lighthouse (1973). BBC documentary (on their excellent BBC Archive channel) about the lonely life of the lighthouse keepers on Bishop Rock - the furthest away from mainland Britain, in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.

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Dan Slevin reviews three new films: Sense and Sensibility, Georgia Oakley’s Austen adaptation with Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay; Whalefall, a survival thriller starring Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin; and La Bola Negra, an epic queer drama with Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review:

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NAZA (directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor). From two of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA is based on interviews with two dozen anonymous Israeli security and intelligence officers about the methods and tactics being used in the war on...

Kate Rodger chats to Jesse Mulligan about the not so great reviews coming out for Klara and the Sun, shares her reckons and the pair discuss Tenzing too!

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Kate Rodger reviews three new films: Tenzing, Jennifer Peedom’s Everest drama with Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe; The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel with Jeremy Strong; and Unabomber, Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay in a Netflix thriller.

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Afternoons' critic Dominic Corry reviews The Social Reckoning and NAZA.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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The Social Reckoning (written and directed by Aaron Sorkin). Follow-up to Sorkin’s 2010 Oscar-winning script The Social Network. This story follows Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) as they attempt to tell the world ho...

Michelle Langstone reviews Big Girls Don't Cry, Paloma Schneiderman's Sundance Audience Award-winning debut feature; Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu's satirical thriller starring Tom Cruise, and The Wizard of the Kremlin.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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Verity (directed by Mike Showalter). Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway star in a thriller based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us). Johnson plays a struggling writer asked to become a ghostwriter for a best-selling author who has a mysterious ailment (Hathaway).

Kate Rodger reviews the two films it seems everyone is talking about right now - and a warning, she doesn't pull any punches!

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Dan Slevin reviews three new films for the school holidays: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, an Aardman Halloween special; Forgotten Island, an animated adventure inspired by Philippine mythology; and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain.

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Afternoons film critic Dominic Corry reviews Heart of the Beast, Resident Evil and Mayday.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post (feat. Larry Carlton)

Hill Street Blues was a pioneering police drama from 1981-1987 which featured an ensemble cast, gritty environments and challenging storylines - at least for its time.

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Kate Rodger reviews Shelter, a Jason Statham action thriller about a former assassin protecting a stranded woman from his old handler; and Mayday, a Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh Apple TV survival thriller set in Soviet territory. Plus: her trip to Nashville to meet Brad Pitt.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:

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Coyote vs. Acme (directed by Dave Green). Wile E. Coyote, despondent after being continuously let down by Acme products in his relentless pursuit of the road runner, resorts to the final destination - a court of law.

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Michelle Langstone reviews The Rivals of Azmiah King, Andrew Patterson's film with Matthew McConaughey as a beekeeper; The Weight, in which Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe star in a Great Depression survival story about smuggling gold through a hundred miles of wilderness; and Practical Magic 2, Susanne Bier's long-awaited sequel reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as sisters trying to protect the next generation from the love curse that has followed their family for generations.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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Hope (produced, written and directed by Na Hong-jin). Epic South Korean sci-fi about a small fishing town attacked by a mysterious, powerful and aggressive monster.

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Mayday (written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein). Ryan Reynolds an...

Dan Slevin reviews three new films: Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, a NZ indie gross-out comedy about an accidental alien pregnancy; Fall 2: Deadpoint, a survival thriller set on a deadly Thai mountain plank walk; and The Runner, a Prime Video thriller with Gal Gadot and Damian Lewis.

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Afternoons critic Kate Rodger is with Jesse to share what she's been watching - Lomu (in cinemas) and Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly (Netflix)

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this wee

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (directed by James Cameron, 1991). Back in cinemas for its 35th anniversary - screening in Cameron’s preferred 3D format. Arguably the greatest action film ever made sees Arnold Schwarzenegger return to the Terminator role he played in Cameron’s indie hit from 1...

Dan Slevin reviews three new films: The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic survival story with Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin; The Whisper Man, James Ashcroft's Netflix thriller with Adam Scott and Robert De Niro; and Lomu, a documentary about the iconic All Black.

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Emile Donovan chats with critic Dominic Corry about two new action films on at the cinema.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:

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Young Washington (2026, directed by Jon Erwin). The story of the Founding Father, from the death of his own father when he was only 11, to his enlistment in the Virginia Militia fighting alongside the British in the French and Indian War of 1754-1755. Stars William Franklyn-Miller as Washington...

Michelle Langstone reviews Spa Weekend, a comedy about old friends whose reunion is derailed by a chaotic fourth, starring Anna Faris, Michelle Buteau, Leslie Mann and Isla Fisher; and Savage House, a Georgian smallpox comedy-drama with Richard E Grant and Claire Foy as a debt-riddled noble couple.

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Afternoons critic Kate Rodger joins Jesse to review Case 137 and Colours of Time.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:

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Mike Post’s The Rockford Files Theme kicks off our chat about private detectives on screen, including Colin Farrell’s performance in Sugar, following the end of the show’s second season.

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Tony (directed by Matt Johnson). Tony is a...

Dan Slevin reviews three new films: One Night Only, a comedy set in a US where pre-marital sex is legally banned except one night a year; & Sons, with Bill Nighy as a reclusive novelist reuniting his estranged family; and De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, an epic wartime biography.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review:

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The End of Oak Street (directed by David Robert Mitchell). In 1982, an ordinary American family finds that their neighbourhood has been transported back in time to a prehistoric period populated by incredibly dangerous dinosaur creatures. Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor.

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Afternoons critic Dominic Corry shares his review of three new films, one local (from the NZIFF) and the other two in cinemas from next week!

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Nights’ resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review: Savage House, a scabrous 18th-century comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy; Deep Water, a shark survival thriller; and 1979 sci-fi epic Meteor, streaming free on Tubi.

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Savage House (directed by Peter Glanz). Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy star in a scabrous comedy set in the 18th century as a social climbing couple prepare to host an important dinner.

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