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Sarah Ward

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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “The film’s musical-infused approach, complete with hymn-inspired song-and-dance numbers, is mesmerising. And in the lead, Amanda Seyfried gives her greatest performance yet.” – ScreenHub Feb 18, 2026 Full Review The Piano Accident (2025) EDIT “Now a three-time star for Dupieux after Mandibles and Smoking Causes Coughing, Exarchopoulos keeps having a ball tapping into the director’s wavelength.” – ScreenHub Feb 18, 2026 Full Review The Son and the Sea (2025) EDIT “Stroma Cairns crafts a tender examination of masculinity, and a film as resonant as it is visually striking.” – ScreenHub Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Franz (2025) 72% EDIT “As well as making a star out of German actor Idan Weiss as its lead, Franz gets playful, thrillingly and engagingly so.” – ScreenHub Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 95% EDIT “Haunting both in its beauty and its contemplation of the full scope of everyday existence.” – ScreenHub Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% EDIT “Gorgeous, imaginative, heartfelt and hopeful ... the best animated movie of the past year.” – ScreenHub Feb 18, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% EDIT “Stunning ... there's no more exhilarating ode to Elvis for obsessives, the somewhat fond and the barely aware alike than this.” – ScreenHub Feb 17, 2026 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% EDIT “Unforgettable, as well as essential, important and urgent viewing.” – AWFJ.org Feb 4, 2026 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 96% EDIT “A thoughtful delight that stirs the soul and lingers in the mind like a gorgeous tune.” – AWFJ.org Jan 23, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “A film to worship... Rare is a series’ fourth entry, let alone a film helmed by a new director after two prior triumphs by one of its originators, that understands so firmly what made its previous outstanding entries such marvels.” – AWFJ.org Jan 19, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Reflecting reality with sparkling clarity doesn’t make Park Chan-wook’s black comedy any less sharp or savage, the latter in a so-truthful-it-cuts-to-the-bone fashion.” – AWFJ.org Jan 19, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% EDIT “A successful showcase for Sweeney’s dramatic talents ... Christy knows how to sting, and also how to float.” – ScreenHub Jan 12, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% EDIT “Hilditch’s movie is so assured, so certain of its place in multiple canons, so patently its own and so effective.” – AWFJ.org Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Kokuho (2025) 94% EDIT “Captivating, all-consuming, resplendent and affecting ... while subtlety is among the movie’s plentiful strengths, there’s no masking its emotion, artistry, beauty or impact, with every ounce of passion rewardingly on display. ” – AWFJ.org Dec 21, 2025 Full Review Bump: A Christmas Film (2025) EDIT “Bump serves up a reminder of why viewers have loved spending time in its company. ” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Nugget Is Dead? A Christmas Story (2024) EDIT “Before the pair [Jenna Owen and Vic Zerbst] were satirising the PR industry astutely and amusingly, they tackled dysfunctional families come the merriest time on the calendar, with the same winning results.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review How to Make Gravy (2024) EDIT “There’s not a bad performance among the cast.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Jones Family Christmas (2023) EDIT “There’s a sense of both sentimentality and weight to this Heather Mitchell-led dramedy.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Christmas Ransom (2022) EDIT “As the likeable-enough movie unfurls its seasonal antics in a family-owned toy store that’s seen more profitable days, it also adds a Die Hard angle.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Christmas on the Farm (2021) EDIT “This saccharine-toned, sunnily shot picture happily and eagerly plays out exactly as viewers expect from its first moments.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review A Sunburnt Christmas (2020) EDIT “Thanks to Daniel Henshall as hapless crook Daryl, a playful sense of humour, and the keen eye of cinematographer Dylan River, A Sunburnt Christmas is entertainingly more than the sum of its recognisable parts.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Bush Christmas (1983) EDIT “Witnessing Kidman’s acting origins and digging into Australian cinema history are the film’s main drawcard more than 40 years later.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Get Lee and Washington throwing everything they have into an exploration of what it truly takes to make a mark, the cost and challenges, and the battle for genuine fulfilment along the way, and the result is all highs and no lows.” – ScreenHub Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter (2025) 64% EDIT “Powter was her own biggest asset when she made the leap from teaching aerobics classes to media domination; at its most resonant and insightful, she’s the same for Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter.” – AWFJ.org Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Teenage Wasteland (2025) 100% EDIT “Moss and McBaine are no strangers to inspiring others themselves ... Teenage Wasteland heartily and winningly continues the trend. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 20, 2025 Full Review
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