Christopher Nolan’s film is big on virtue and righteous violence, but fails the poem’s complexities of what the beleaguered ...
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Forced Labor

The Albanese government is toughening its stance against modern slavery. But there’s a whole other story in what it’s not doing, why not, and for what is, why now.
Was the PM’s appearance on a crass podcast really an attempt to play to a particular audience or was it less complicated than ...
Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’ ...
Steven Spielberg’s credulity makes his latest alien contact film, Disclosure Day, mawkish and old-fashioned rather than ...
French artist Loris Gréaud’s film – viewed by a single person at a time – is an obsessive meditation on access, discovery and devotion I’m sitting alone on a red bench outside a sandstone church when ...
Thatcher’s Britain is the setting for a soapy series of sex, scandal and media moguls, and a dark drama of political ...
Connecting with nature through Ildikó Enyedi’s three stories linked to a ginkgo tree, and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s bewitching take on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen ...
A veterinarian recalls the sights and sounds of yearling racehorse sales, where the open bar would take hold over the weekend ...