Film of the Week
Each week we go through and choose our favourite newly-released films in Australia and New Zealand. Click on the film title to go to our review of that film. If we haven’t reviewed the film, we’ll provide a link to a review which we endorse.
May 23:
- Australia & New Zealand: no recommendation
May 16:
- Australia & New Zealand: Broken
May 9:
- Australia: The Place Beyond The Pines
- New Zealand: Spring Breakers
May 2:
- Australia: The Hunt
- New Zealand: The Company You Keep
April 24/25:
- Australia & New Zealand: Iron Man 3
April 18:
- Australia: No
- New Zealand: no recommendation
April 11:
- Australia & New Zealand: Oblivion
April 4:
- Australia: Trance
- New Zealand: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
March 28:
- Australia & New Zealand: Rust & Bone
March 21:
- Australia & New Zealand: no recommendation
March 14:
- Australia: no recommendation
- New Zealand: Liberal Arts
March 7 March:
- Australia & New Zealand: Oz: The Great and the Powerful
February 28:
- Australia: Cloud Atlas
- New Zealand: Amour
February 21:
- Australia: Amour
- New Zealand: No recommendation
February 14:
- Australia: West of Memphis
- New Zealand: This is 40
February 7:
- Australia: Lincoln
- New Zealand: no recommendation
January 31:
- Australia & New Zealand: Zero Dark Thirty
January 24:
- Australia & New Zealand: Django Unchained
January 17:
- Australia & New Zealand: Monsters, Inc [3D]
January 10:
- Australia: ParaNorman
- New Zealand: The Imposter
January 1 (New Year’s Day):
- Australia & New Zealand: Life of Pi
-2013-
December 26 (Boxing Day):
- Australia: Les Misérables
- New Zealand: no recommendation
December 20:
- Australia: From Up On Poppy Hill
- New Zealand: no recommendation
December 13:
- Australia: Liberal Arts
- New Zealand: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [Darren's World of Entertainment review]
December 6:
- Australia: The Man with the Iron Fists
- New Zealand: Polisse [The Film Emporium review]
November 29:
- Australia: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- New Zealand: Beasts of the Southern Wild
November: 22
- Australia & New Zealand: Skyfall
November 15:
- Australia & New Zealand: Robot & Frank
November 8:
- Australia: The Master
- New Zealand: The Sessions
November 1:
- Australia & New Zealand: no recommendation. See releases from October 25.
October 25:
- Australia & New Zealand: Argo
October 18:
- Australia: Savages
- New Zealand: Killing Them Softly
October 11:
- Australia: Killing Them Softly
- New Zealand: Searching for Sugar Man [The Film Emporium Review]
October 4:
- Australia: Searching for Sugar Man [The Film Emporium Review]
- New Zealand: The Sapphires
September 27:
- Australia & New Zealand: Looper
September 20:
- Australia: Lore
- New Zealand: Ruby Sparks
September 13:
- Australia: Beasts of the Southern Wild
- New Zealand: Your Sister’s Sister
September 6:
- Australia: Monsieur Lazhar
- New Zealand: God Bless America
August 30:
- Australia: Chinese Take-Away/Moonrise Kingdom
- New Zealand: Moonrise Kingdom
August 23:
- Australia: Holy Motors
- New Zealand: No recommendation
August 16:
- Australia & New Zealand: Bernie
August 9:
- Australia: The Sapphires
- New Zealand: Take This Waltz [The Film Emporium Review]
August 2:
- Australia & New Zealand: No recommendation
July 26:
- Australia & New Zealand: Magic Mike
July 19:
- Australia & New Zealand: The Dark Knight Rises
July 12:
- Australia: Not Suitable For Children
- New Zealand: Ted
July 5:
- Australia: Ted
- New Zealand: The Amazing Spider-man (3D)
June 28:
- Australia: Polisse [The Film Emporium review]
- New Zealand: A Royal Affair
June 21:
- Australia: Brave
- New Zealand: Café de Flore
June 14:
- Australia: The Cabin in the Woods [Graffiti With Punctuation review by Cam Williams]
- New Zealand: No recommendation
June 7:
- Australia & New Zealand: Prometheus
May 31:
- Australia: No recommendation
- New Zealand: Le Havre [The Film Emporium review]
May 24:
- Australia: Bel Ami
- New Zealand: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
May 17:
- Australia: Jiro Dreams of Sushi [Matt's Movie Reviews review]
- New Zealand: Shihad: Beautiful Machine
May 10:
- Australia: No recommendation – see films released April 25/26
- New Zealand: Margin Call [QuickFlix review by Simon Miraudo]
May 3:
- Australia: The Five Year Engagement
- New Zealand: The Grey
April 25/26:
- Australia & New Zealand: The Avengers
April 19:
- Australia: Footnote [AB Film Emporium Review]
- New Zealand: A Separation [The New Zealand Listener Review by David Larsen]
April 12:
- Australia: Battleship
- New Zealand: Carnage
April 5:
- Australia: This Must Be The Place
- New Zealand: Titanic (3D)
29 March:
- Australia: Le Havre [AB Film Emporium Review]
- New Zealand: Attack the Block [The Popcorn Junkie Review]
22 March:
- Australia & New Zealand: The Raid
15 March:
- Australia: 21 Jump Street [Sam McCosh's guest review at The Popcorn Junkie]
- New Zealand: Martha Marcy May Marlene
8 March:
- Australia & New Zealand: Headhunters
1 March:
- Australia: A Separation [AB Film Emporium Review]
- New Zealand: We Need to Talk About Kevin [The Reel Bits Review]
23 February:
- Australia: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- New Zealand: Shame
16 February:
- Australia: The Grey
- New Zealand: The Ides of March [The Popcorn Junkie Review]