Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Sam Hobson, Journalist

Reviews / Film & TV
Winter Sleep
"'Winter Sleep' is another rich, textured drama."
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Two Days, One Night
"'Two Days, One Night' is a rarity in cinema."
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Galore
A traditional Aussie flick about big feelings and life events.
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Frank
"Frank is a film ultimately about creativity: how we desire it; how, in its purest form, it feels unattainable."
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Good Vibrations
"Where the film’s narrative excels is in its refusal to posit Dooley as someone morally tired of the civil warfare and looking, like a care worker, to give vocation to the impressionable local youth straddling a dangerous, neutral line."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: James McCann - Dignity
Dignity is an album of great promise and solid delivery.
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Mistaken For Strangers
An earnest, and wonderfully endearing film, Mistaken For Strangers is an invincible ode to all little brothers out there, to all siblings in shadow.
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Its plot machinations are merely there as footholds on which one steadies themself through an otherwise deliciously fluid experiment in mood and atmosphere.
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Europa Report
The film’s greatest strength is in its naturalism, and then its capacity for smart tension after that.
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Prisoners
There is atmosphere, and elegance to every frame of Prisoners. It isn’t amazing, but it is strong, memorable and gorgeous.
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Gravity
Go see it already. Gravity is too immense to do justice with words.
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The Conjuring
The Conjuring sticks the landing where Wan’s last film, Insidious, didn’t. The latter went all limbo, and camp and ineffective, whereas this film stays within its lore and boundaries, delivering on its long-con layup terrifically.