Books & arts
11 December 2021
A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
National affairs
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
Books & arts
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True
Books & arts
27 October 2021
Billed as a horror story, Midnight Mass audaciously explores an isolated community
Books & arts
4 October 2021
Do the makers of ABC TV’s Fires have enough critical distance from their subject?
Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change
Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Chair’s portrayal of academic life has a blind spot
Books & arts
23 August 2021
TV is having trouble explaining the unexplained
Books & arts
30 July 2021
Would Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s latest series benefit from a little more reality?
Books & arts
9 July 2021
With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s Ms Represented
Books & arts
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & arts
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s Wakefield
Books & arts
1 June 2021
Mare of Easttown shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
Books & arts
30 April 2021
Our reviewer follows Greta Thunberg’s 2019 journey
From the archive
26 February 2021
Television | Two Danish crime series probe everyday darkness
Books & arts
3 February 2021
Television | The coverage of events in Washington was a study in contrasts
From the archive
1 February 2021
Television | Bridgerton isn’t alone. Period drama is back with a vengeance
Books & arts
14 December 2020
Television | The highs and occasional lows of Four Corners’ coverage of 2020
Books & arts
28 November 2020
Television | The fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster is brilliantly structured but ethically worrying
Books & arts
8 October 2020
Television | The Comey Rule reminds us that there’s no such thing as a bombshell in the Trump era
From the archive
24 September 2020
Is television satire working anymore?
Books & arts
24 August 2020
Television | The drama is in the detail of this compelling dramatisation of the Salisbury poisonings
Books & arts
18 August 2020
Television | The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel finds hope in the face of an eye-watering planetary deficit
Books & arts
28 July 2020
Television | War of the Worlds had the potential to hold up a mirror
Summer season
17 July 2020
Television | HBO’s prequel sets the legendary lawyer off on a long road
Books & arts
27 June 2020
Television | Filmmaker Warwick Thornton turns the camera on himself
Books & arts
4 June 2020
Television | The ABC’s satirical take on the Maralinga tests captures the confusion and the wilful blindness
Books & arts
4 June 2020
Television | Does Road to Now’s attempt to find connections simply show that things fall apart?
Books & arts
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & arts
13 May 2020
Television | Ensemble drama Mystery Road is in a class of its own