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“The Slap Heard Around The World” is how Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald has appropriately described it.

Banshees of Inisherin). The feature debut of director Bryce McGuire, the film concerns a possessed swimming pool in a suburban family’s backyard.

Napoleon, with generally favourable reviews across the board.The historical drama stars Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role as Napoleon Bonaparte, the military mastermind and Emperor of France. It spans 32 years from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to Napoleon’s death on St Helena in 1821, and explores significant battles as well as the romantic turmoil with his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais.Many have praised director Scott for crafting the kind of bombastic spectacle favoured in late ’50s and early ’60s Hollywood, noting in particular the technical and theatrical skill enacted for the sweeping, bloody battle scenes.

Oppenheimer have praised the film as a “knockout” and Christopher Nolan’s “most impressive work yet”.The upcoming biopic stars Cillian Murphy as scientist and “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer, and is set to be released on July 21, 2023.The first social media reactions to the anticipated epic have arrived after a world premiere event in Paris yesterday (June 11) where Murphy, Nolan and cast members Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterAhead of its international rollout from next Wednesday (August 26), the reviews are in for Christoper Nolan’s time travel thriller Tenet, and fair to say it’s a mixed bag of opinions.In the UK papers, The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin is firmly in the ‘yes’ camp, with his five-star write-up calling it a “time-bending action spectacular” and adding that it’s “the perfect film to get us back in cinema”. He also thinks that one viewing won’t be enough, and that most viewers may struggle to grasp some of the finer points of the movie’s plot.The Guardian’s Catherine Shoard takes a very different stance, calling it “a palindromic dud” in her two-star critique.