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Nadine Whitney

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Biography:

Nadine Whitney is a freelance critic writing from Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-chair of The Australian Film Critics Association. Her focus is on women directed films.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Left-Handed Girl is the kind of film that can nestle comedy and the exhausting stresses of keeping a struggling family from going under. It’s a remarkable piece of cinema.” – InSession Film Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 2.5/5 EDIT “The filmmakers haven’t gone in for cohesive and logical narrative, they’ve gone for rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness.” – The Curb Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Beast of War (2025) 89% EDIT “Roache-Turner delivers a great film about mateship under pressure making the film a very satisfying WWII experience, and it is an outstanding shark thriller and probably one of the best-looking shark movies I can recall.” – The Curb Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Lesbian Space Princess is at heart a story about believing in yourself and recognising that sometimes it’s not you, you’re just surrounded by jerks. An absolute space blast.” – The Curb Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Penny Lane Is Dead (2025) A EDIT “Penny Lane is Dead is replete with fantastic performances, a banging soundtrack, and a deep understanding of genre, time, and place. It’s a bloody ripper!” – The Curb Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% D- EDIT “Housemaid is neither serious enough, nor frivolous enough to solve its numerous issues with tone.” – InSession Film Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% 2/5 EDIT “Atropia doesn’t push hard enough to have real bite… Hailey Gates misses most of her marks.” – AWFJ.org Dec 14, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “A wonderful paean to 1960’s eurospy thrillers and exploitation films where desire, delusion, and delirium overtake the psych… replete with stylised visceral violence, unforgettably stunning imagery, and a sense of the phantasms of a fantasy world.” – The Curb Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Trains (2024) EDIT “Trains is a haunting human experience in coal, steam, iron, and the man-made lay lines which connect and destroy.” – The Curb Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “Eternity is a robustly entertaining philosophical rom com exploring the many forms of love and the courage required to choose one, forever.” – MovieJawn Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Ronan Day-Lewis has a flair for visual engagement that doesn’t quite cover his currently lacking narrative and tonal skill. Anemone might be a too large an undertaking for a first-time filmmaker.” – The Curb Nov 23, 2025 Full Review Violent Ends (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Violent Ends doesn’t often transcend violent and downbeat genre trappings. When it does the spark of John-Michael Powell’s emerging strengths as a filmmaker is evident and that spark is worth paying attention to.” – AWFJ.org Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Reedland (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “If you want easy answers, Reedland will disappoint. If you’re prepared to be immersed in stunning, mysterious, and bewildering depiction of a rarely depicted place, Reedland is transfixing and beguiling.” – AWFJ.org Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Journey Home, David Gulpilil (2025) A EDIT “Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Smith document a sacred rite and explain David Gulpilil’s traditional customs creating David’s final gift to cinema and as a storyteller of Aboriginal Australian culture. Extraordinary.” – The Curb Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Shell (2024) 63% 3/5 EDIT “Shell has potential when it is a paean to 1950s and earlier science fiction horror, but when it pauses to make a point about the hollowness of Hollywood it face-plants. An uneven experience, but one not without a certain zest.” – This is Film Oct 27, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% EDIT “Michelle Garza Cervera’s direction and the two primary performances tip The Hand that Rocked the Cradle towards a sleeker production. However, there’s no complete escape from the low rent tawdriness of the script. ” – AWFJ.org Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% 1.5/5 EDIT “The Woman in Cabin 10 is an excruciating fumble that piles on turgid and obvious plot points until it gives up on those and descends into what could politely be called “batshittery.” An already tired formula that does nought to make it distinct. ” – AWFJ.org Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Coyotes (2025) 59% D- EDIT “Coyotes is a movie that struggles to be what it promised and without the true throughline of satire to give the film teeth the comedy is primarily goofy, the drama tedious, and the horror… unfortunately too artificial.” – InSession Film Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “Good Boy is a brilliant horror film which opens itself up to a multiplicity of readings on a metaphorical level and provides an elemental and emphatic experience of empathy with its canine protagonist.” – The Curb Oct 2, 2025 Full Review La llorona (2019) 96% A EDIT “La Llorona is a subtle and persuasive masterpiece – a clever piece of horror that asks the audience to witness real life atrocities and recoil from them far more than they recoil from the supernatural. ” – The Curb Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Rabbit Hole (2010) 86% EDIT “Rabbit Hole a universally themed work about how people must learn to process their grief, guilt, and anger to reach a point where they know what they will do with the next day of their lives. ” – The Curb Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Chain Reactions (2024) 98% A EDIT “Chain Reactions is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece. Art is for everyone.” – MovieJawn Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “A harrowing work of art, but one that inspires empathy on a level beyond watching the young men and the country suffer. The Long Walk is bound for immediate status as a classic of the dystopian genre. A rare and unforgettable film.” – AWFJ.org Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% C EDIT “Deliberate lack of restraint can make the characterization too scattershot. When Mielants is exercising restraint, the emotional tone shines through, and the buried excellence is in sight. Steve is a good film, but it could have been a great film.” – InSession Film Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Griffin in Summer (2024) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “Expect to laugh and expect to perhaps shed a little tear now and then as you follow Griffin through his summer of downs and ups. Griffin in Summer is the kind of indie comedy that should be seen and experienced with an open heart—it’s simply excellent.” – This is Film Sep 15, 2025 Full Review
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