Reviewed by Megan Fleming

THIS IS A quirky-sweet and surprising film about ordinary people trying to connect in a modern world. It takes perversion and makes it cute. It takes loneliness and makes it endearing. It takes talking picture frames that say “I love you” and makes them the most melancholic symbol you can’t help laughing at.

Reviewed by Jacob Powell

ON THE WAY in to see Three Dollars, I saw a byline regarding the movie on a promotional poster which read:

“One of the best films yet made in Australia.”

This is the kind of comment that causes my cynicism glands to start working overtime – I cringed as I walked past – but I have to say, after leaving the theatre a couple of hours later, I thoroughly agreed.

Reviewed by Bob Rigg

THIS challenging and absorbing account of the 1972 killing of 11 Israeli athletes by the Palestinian terror group Black September marks a new peak in the cinematic work of Steven Spielberg. Well known for his mega-movies, he is less well known as the man who, in addition to directing Schindler's List, has provided funding and inspiration for a massive project documenting and archiving the stories of survivors of the Shoah (or Holocaust).

Reviewed by Megan Fleming

AUTHOR Truman Capote’s greatest work is the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. The first novel of its kind, it explores the shotgun murder of a respectable Kansas family by perpetrators Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. The film Capote centres around the years Truman Capote spent writing the book, and the relationship he built with one of the murderers.