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This Bend it Like Beckham star is now a headstrong detective in a tangled cop show
More than 20 years after her breakout role, Parminder Nagra is once again playing an outsider.
- by Debi Enker
Subtle and sublime, this album feels like it could have come from half a century ago
- by Barry Divola and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Movies
Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham lack spark in Holocaust survivor tale
German director Julia von Heinz’s Treasure is an adaptation of Too Many Men, Lily Brett’s highly regarded novel about a daughter who travels to Poland with her father, a Holocaust-survivor
- by Sandra Hall
This quiet Australian horror has style in spades but not enough guts
Birdeater uses the seclusion of the landscape to build and sustain a deep psychological unease, but struggles with characterisation and pacing.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Niche sports get their time in the Olympic spotlight
Broadcasters Adam Papalia and Caroline Buchanan will be bringing sports such as judo and BMX cycling to the widest possible audience.
- by Nicole Elphick
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A beautifully balanced performance in a hilarious, quirky comedy about change
Ashley Storrie delivers a commanding turn as the stubbornly outspoken heroine Nina in the at-times hilarious and sensitive comedy Dinosaur.
- by Ben Pobjie
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Eloquent and beguiling: Operatic Hamlet is a triumph
- by Millie Muroi, Cassie Tongue, Shamim Razavi, Harriet Cunningham and John Shand
Two powerful performances in this Streetcar make it a bare-knuckle fight
- by Cameron Woodhead and Barney Zwartz
The takedown of toxic masculinity that you must not miss
- by Sonia Nair and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Did Kid Rock just deliver the wildest moment of the Republican convention?
- by Kate Lahey and Helen Pitt
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