Julie Rigg is a film critic and former broadcaster with ABC Radio National. She has served on critics’ juries at film festivals around the world, including San Sebastián, Toronto, Venice, Havana and Dubai.
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Cold case
Julie Rigg
29 July 2020
Cinema | A White, White Day reviewed, and film news from Brisbane and Melbourne
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Nothing inspires like success
Julie Rigg
18 June 2020
Cinema | A new documentary highlights a milestone in the fight for women’s rights
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Cinema in a time of coronavirus
Julie Rigg
15 June 2020
Cinema | Back from a different kind of isolation, our critic catches up on Hearts and Bones, Motherless Brooklyn and the screen landscape
Summer season
From comedy to drama in a blink
Julie Rigg
18 February 2020
Cinema | Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of Parasite
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Gangster capitalism
Julie Rigg
19 November 2019
Cinema | The Irishman and The Report reviewed
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Silent witnesses
Julie Rigg
26 September 2019
Cinema | Ambitious storytelling from directors Rodd Rathjen, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego
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Metamorphoses
Julie Rigg
13 September 2019
Cinema | Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in The Nightingale
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Predictable pile-ons
Julie Rigg
9 August 2019
Cinema | The mob turns nasty in Diego Maradona and The Final Quarter
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Look what they’re doing to each other
Julie Rigg
6 July 2019
South Korean cinema maintains the rage with Burning and Parasite
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The filmmaker’s gaze
Julie Rigg
28 June 2019
Cinema | French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
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Paradise lost
Julie Rigg
26 June 2019
Cinema | Happy as Lazzaro is the latest work from a highly original talent
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Reconciliation without tears
Julie Rigg
2 March 2019
Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
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Dangerous liaisons
Julie Rigg
4 February 2019
Cinema | Green Book and Loro reviewed, and a second look at The Favourite
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Running hot and cold
Julie Rigg
3 January 2019
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Adam McKay’s Vice and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
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Remembered intimacies
Julie Rigg
26 November 2018
Cinema | Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
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Out of the danger zone
Julie Rigg
2 November 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Backtrack Boys and Beautiful Boy
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The light and the dark
Julie Rigg
3 October 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Ladies in Black and Custody
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How Spike does history
Julie Rigg
31 August 2018
Cinema | BlacKkKlansman is a testament to Lee’s mastery of rapidly shifting moods
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On the edge
Julie Rigg
24 July 2018
Cinema | New films from Italy and Australia capture life on the periferia
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Cover-up
Julie Rigg
25 June 2018
Cinema | Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters reviewed
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Sons and others
Julie Rigg
5 May 2018
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Breath and Loveless
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Pygmalion subverted
Julie Rigg
7 March 2018
Cinema | Of this year’s Oscar contenders, Phantom Thread seems most likely to endure
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Confounded expectations
Julie Rigg
19 January 2018
Cinema | Archetypes are challenged in Warwick Thornton’s latest film
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