In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Book Review - Entitlement
Unfortunately, Entitlement reminds audiences that no amount of social commentary, witticisms, or poignant themes can account for a total lack of story.
Book Review - Men I Trust
The distinct art style eventually grows on you and the symbolism of its features begins to stand out as colours fade from characters and stencils begin to fill the room.
Book Review - The Pachinko Parlour
Echoing the sentiments of displacement, dissociation and longing expressed in Dusapin’s debut, The Pachinko Parlour makes for a short, subdued and tender read.
Book Review - Ghost Lover
Ghost Lover pulls you in with a marriage of craftsmanship and an uncanny talent for saying the unsayable.
Book Review: Sexual Revolution - Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence.
Book Review: Six Days
The novel might serve its purpose as a light read; syrupy and pleasant enough, but missing enough meat to be memorable.
Book Review: Stolen Focus
Hari builds a convincing case: the odds are against us. Almost every digital platform we now rely on is deliberately engineered to steal our attention for as many hours of the day as possible. There is no incentive for this to change.
Book Review: Animal
The premise of Animal is unapologetically bloody from its first passage. After witnessing a former lover commit suicide - a public, gruesome performance seemingly intended to permanently mark her with the tragedy - Joan drives out of New York to a sweltering rented house on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Book Review: The Orchard Murders
The Orchard Murders does well as a standalone crime read, although I imagine loyal readers of Gott’s series would better appreciate the character development across novels.
Book Review: Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
With this new release, Australian readers especially would do well to take a look at Seven Fallen Feathers and consider the similar atrocities perpetuated against Indigenous people in our own backyard.
Book Review: Elly
Elly is the debut novel from Berlin-based filmmaker and short story writer Maike Wetzel, translated to English by Lyn Marven. Eerie and lyrical, it offers a unique twist on the well-worn missing persons archetype.
Book Review: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
The book shapes itself around the urgent message that domestic violence never looks as simple as we expect…
Book Review: Suicide Club
Suicide Club manages to be both well-paced and thoughtful. It’s engaging and character-driven while also posing big questions about the inherent value of simply living.
Book Review: The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton
2017 was the year of the woman-centred psychological thriller and Karen Hamilton’s debut novel The Perfect Girlfriend follows in this tradition.
Book Review: Depends What You Mean By Extremist
Depends What you mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables is the second full length literary offering from Australian satirist John Safran.