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Nadine Whitney

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Biography:

Nadine Whitney is a freelance critic writing from Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-chair of The Australian Film Critics Association. Her focus is on women directed films.

Reviews

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Mother of Flies (2025) 94% EDIT “Mother of Flies is an outstanding folk horror work of art where the script is darkly lyrical and the visual elements at times simply jaw-dropping.” – AWFJ.org Feb 1, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% EDIT “The kind of transcendent and wise prose Macdonald shared with the world can’t be communicated in the language of visuals or performance. H is for Hawk is a good film, but it feels like it has too many "holes and absences" to be a great one.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Skirt Day (2009) 60% EDIT “Skirt Day is one of Adjani’s most realistic, yet fraught, films.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Camille Claudel (1988) 90% EDIT “Isabelle Adjani brings Claudel out of obscurity and into the light as a groundbreaking sculptor whose personal relationships eventually soured to the point where she became a shut-in living in a small room working night and day.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Quartet (1981) 47% EDIT “An exquisitely made film with a powerful performance by Adjani as the woman who believes herself at least partially loved by two men.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Possession (1981) 86% A EDIT “Possession is more than a horror film, and more than a cult film – it is art under extreme pressure. Sam Neill’s performance is excellent, but no one will ever doubt that the film belongs to Adjani.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) 93% EDIT “Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht needed to be at once profoundly beautiful and as seductive as it was horrific. Isabelle Adjani’s ethereal Lucy that provides part of the immense beauty of the film, especially when she is paired with the beastly Klaus Kinski.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review The Story of Adele H (1975) 93% EDIT “L’Histoire d’Adèle H. is an extremely accomplished work for a young actor and Isabelle Adjani commanded the screen with her emotionality.” – InSession Film Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Left-Handed Girl is the kind of film that can nestle comedy and the exhausting stresses of keeping a struggling family from going under. It’s a remarkable piece of cinema.” – InSession Film Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 2.5/5 EDIT “The filmmakers haven’t gone in for cohesive and logical narrative, they’ve gone for rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness.” – The Curb Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Beast of War (2025) 89% EDIT “Roache-Turner delivers a great film about mateship under pressure making the film a very satisfying WWII experience, and it is an outstanding shark thriller and probably one of the best-looking shark movies I can recall.” – The Curb Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Lesbian Space Princess is at heart a story about believing in yourself and recognising that sometimes it’s not you, you’re just surrounded by jerks. An absolute space blast.” – The Curb Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Penny Lane Is Dead (2025) A EDIT “Penny Lane is Dead is replete with fantastic performances, a banging soundtrack, and a deep understanding of genre, time, and place. It’s a bloody ripper!” – The Curb Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% D- EDIT “Housemaid is neither serious enough, nor frivolous enough to solve its numerous issues with tone.” – InSession Film Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% 2/5 EDIT “Atropia doesn’t push hard enough to have real bite… Hailey Gates misses most of her marks.” – AWFJ.org Dec 14, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “A wonderful paean to 1960’s eurospy thrillers and exploitation films where desire, delusion, and delirium overtake the psych… replete with stylised visceral violence, unforgettably stunning imagery, and a sense of the phantasms of a fantasy world.” – The Curb Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Trains (2024) EDIT “Trains is a haunting human experience in coal, steam, iron, and the man-made lay lines which connect and destroy.” – The Curb Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “Eternity is a robustly entertaining philosophical rom com exploring the many forms of love and the courage required to choose one, forever.” – MovieJawn Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Ronan Day-Lewis has a flair for visual engagement that doesn’t quite cover his currently lacking narrative and tonal skill. Anemone might be a too large an undertaking for a first-time filmmaker.” – The Curb Nov 23, 2025 Full Review Violent Ends (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Violent Ends doesn’t often transcend violent and downbeat genre trappings. When it does the spark of John-Michael Powell’s emerging strengths as a filmmaker is evident and that spark is worth paying attention to.” – AWFJ.org Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Reedland (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “If you want easy answers, Reedland will disappoint. If you’re prepared to be immersed in stunning, mysterious, and bewildering depiction of a rarely depicted place, Reedland is transfixing and beguiling.” – AWFJ.org Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Journey Home, David Gulpilil (2025) A EDIT “Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Smith document a sacred rite and explain David Gulpilil’s traditional customs creating David’s final gift to cinema and as a storyteller of Aboriginal Australian culture. Extraordinary.” – The Curb Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Shell (2024) 63% 3/5 EDIT “Shell has potential when it is a paean to 1950s and earlier science fiction horror, but when it pauses to make a point about the hollowness of Hollywood it face-plants. An uneven experience, but one not without a certain zest.” – This is Film Oct 27, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% EDIT “Michelle Garza Cervera’s direction and the two primary performances tip The Hand that Rocked the Cradle towards a sleeker production. However, there’s no complete escape from the low rent tawdriness of the script. ” – AWFJ.org Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% 1.5/5 EDIT “The Woman in Cabin 10 is an excruciating fumble that piles on turgid and obvious plot points until it gives up on those and descends into what could politely be called “batshittery.” An already tired formula that does nought to make it distinct. ” – AWFJ.org Oct 16, 2025 Full Review
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