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Steve Newall

Steve Newall's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Ebony & Ivory (2024) 73% EDIT “OK, you’re either going to be on the wavelength of this absurd-as-absurd-can-be comedy or you really, really will not (I loved every second of it).” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% EDIT “You’ve probably never seen a video game adaptation that replicates the experience and frustration of gaming quite like this.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “Could have come to an abrupt stop and satisfied as a character study, but finds a final act to lurk longer in your post-movie recollections.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% EDIT “Alex Ross Perry utterly nails an unconventional approach that sits perfectly with the band’s aesthetic - and in particular, truculent contrarian (and sometimes savage) frontman Stephen Malkmus. Pavements layers fact and fiction wonderfully.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 93% EDIT “Seen as big and loud as possible, it stuns eyes, rattles ears and shakes nerves. Superb.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Weed Eaters (2025) EDIT “Loved it, loved it, loved it. I went into The Weed Eaters hoping for early-era Peter Jackson resource-stretching, dryballs Aotearoa humour and genre gross-out appreciation, and while it’s not as excessively gory as PJ, the pic paid off in spades.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Like the characters in A House of Dynamite, we are left guessing about a lot as the credits roll. That doesn’t dilute the film’s impact, or the anxiety of its repeating 18-minute launch window. ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Order (2024) 93% EDIT “Thinking about how these events of forty years ago have continued to ripple through the US - and into the White House in 2025 - lends The Order a chilling quality.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Rebel Ridge (2024) 95% EDIT “Measured, confident, and blessed with fantastic performances, this is a superb new film from the ever-reliable Saulnier.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Kneecap (2024) 96% EDIT “This has got to be the most provocative, drug-laced, and funniest anti-authoritarian movie you’re likely to see that’s also about language revitalisation.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% EDIT “In combining the familiar with the unexpected, in pushing the audience into a state of preconception and uneasiness, Longlegs is a superbly unsettling horror pic. ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 18, 2024 Full Review The Promised Land (2023) 97% EDIT “This tale of taming barren land for the 18th century Royal Danish Court is more stoic western than a justification of exploitation. Indeed, it makes pointed observations about privilege, power, injustice and cruelty.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jun 20, 2024 Full Review Unfrosted (2024) 39% EDIT “Some of the time, Unfrosted seems to think it’s Airplane! with its frequency of jokes, but manages to infuse the infectious tone of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker parodies with the inert half-hearted comedy of Sandler-and-pals Happy Madison productions.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) May 3, 2024 Full Review Immaculate (2024) 72% EDIT “A wild religious horror ride that heads into unexpected territory while tipping its hat to a grab-bag of great genre influences.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 21, 2024 Full Review When Evil Lurks (2023) 96% EDIT “After having two thrilling viewings of Demián Rugna’s chilling, gory and incredibly tense tale of demonic possession, the odds are stacked against a stronger horror presenting itself in 2023. ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Wham! (2023) 89% EDIT “Wham!’s story may have been told many, many times, but there’s still something infectious about revisiting (or discovering) the pair’s enthusiasm as kids and where their DIY bedroom pop project ended up taking them.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 7, 2023 Full Review James & Isey (2021) 100% EDIT “Just like life this is an experience rich in emotion that you’ll want to keep living and breathing right up to its inevitable conclusion.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Oct 4, 2022 Full Review Master (2022) 75% EDIT “Working well on some levels, not so well on others, Master is an uneven, if promising debut.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 22, 2022 Full Review Moonfall (2022) 35% EDIT “Its exactly what you expect, if not as earth-shattering or rest-your-brain entertaining as perhaps one would hope.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) 67% EDIT “Chastain brings Tammy to life with a guileless, winning warmheartedness, humanising Faye while seeming to relish the opportunity to play a character with cheeky and comic touches.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 31, 2022 Full Review Scream (2022) 76% EDIT “It may not be as outrageously bananas in its approach, but this fifth film in the Scream franchise has something in common with Matrix: Resurrections in its biting commentary on our contemporary film culture.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 13, 2022 Full Review Don't Look Up (2021) 56% EDIT “Politics is broken, the media's broken, science is ignored and humans are fallible. So what the fuck do we do about it? McKay doesn't seem to offer any answers.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Dec 16, 2021 Full Review The Suicide Squad (2021) 90% EDIT “I can't think of anyone better than James Gunn to have served up this hilarious mayhem without letting the whole thing slide into nihilism or lose touch with actual emotion amid the body count.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 29, 2021 Full Review Old (2021) 50% EDIT “Do we find out why this is all happening? Yeah. Is it satisfying - or even particularly interesting? I mean...” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 22, 2021 Full Review Cousins (2021) 100% EDIT “Cousins is a deeply moving dramatic triumph, one that stayed with me for some time after the cinema lights came back on.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 7, 2021 Full Review
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