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Luke Buckmaster

Luke Buckmaster is film critic and writer for Guardian Australia, and contributes commentary to a range of Australian publications. He tweets @lukebuckmaster

September 2024

  • Billy Howle as Kid Snow

    Kid Snow review – boxing period drama set in outback Australia pulls its punches

    Billy Howle and Phoebe Tonkin give compelling performances but, as a sports movie and a period drama, Paul Goldman’s film is going through the motions

August 2024

  • The Penguin, Another Round, Stop Making Sense, The Perfect Couple and Agatha All Along are all streaming in Australia in September.

    Stream lover
    Talking Heads, Agatha All Along and George Clooney: what’s new to streaming in Australia in September

    Plus Mads Mikkelsen in Another Round, the original Gladiator and an ‘unforgettable’ entry in the Batman universe
  • Jackie van Beek in the Australian film Audrey

    Audrey review – a deliciously snarky comedy about a girl in a coma

    Jackie van Beek and Hannah Diviney star in Natalie Bailey’s feature debut, which explores a thorny taboo with gallows humour

    • Shaun Micallef’s Eve of Destruction review – terminally bland filler television

    • Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum

    • Critical Incident review – cop drama commits the worst crime: it’s boring

July 2024

  • The Rings of Power, Mulholland Drive, Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough, The Deliverance, and Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

    Stream lover
    The Rings of Power, David Attenborough and classic Fincher: what’s new to streaming in Australia in August

  • Harley Wilson and Shabana Azeez in Birdeater

    Birdeater review – nightmarish buck’s party in the bush becomes faintly preposterous

  • Stars from All We Imagine as Light, Megalopolis, and The Shrouds

    Melbourne international film festival 2024: 10 things to see, from Megalopolis to new Cronenberg

  • James Stewart in the 1950 film Harvey

    Stream team
    James Stewart is sublimely strange and sweet in Harvey as a drunkard with an invisible rabbit friend

  • Fake review – Asher Keddie thrills in visceral drama about a romance scammer

  • Stream lover
    Love Lies Bleeding, Brats and Lady in the Lake: what’s new to streaming in Australia in July

June 2024

  • A still from 2024 Australian comedy The Emu War

    The Emu War review – wall-to-wall silliness that will make you laugh-out loud, sometimes

  • THE CONVERT KG 220927-424. Thomas Munro (Guy Pearce). Credit Kirsty Griffin. The Convert NZ Ltd

    The Convert review – Guy Pearce tries to keep the peace in Māori period drama

  • Alice Englert in Exposure, 2024 Stan drama

    Exposure review – Alice Englert shines in this interesting, if flawed mystery series

  • Miranda Otto and Debi Mazar in Ladies in Black

    Ladies in Black review – a tepid period drama that feels a bit fusty

  • Austin review – this funny, big-hearted comedy will leave you wanting another season

  • Revealed: Otto by Otto review – nuanced portrait of a generational talent

  • Stream lover
    Priscilla, The Bear and Black Barbie: what’s new to streaming in Australia in June

May 2024

  • Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in Colin from Accounts: ‘Their squabbling has an almost volcanic quality.’

    TV review
    Colin from Accounts season two review – still delightfully catty

    After the first season of Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall’s comedy took off, the lovebirds return to win back their hapless pooch. It’s sizzling TV
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