22 November, 2021
Review: The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
Featuring an exquisite performance by Renate Reinsve, this romantic drama is a complex tragicomedy.
Lynden Barber
Lynden Barber is a freelance film and television critic, and a lecturer in screen studies. He writes a film review column for Limelight Magazine, and is a regular contributor to the National Film and Sound Archive’s Australian Screen Online website. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Film Festival in 2005 and 2006, and is a former film writer for The Australian and a former film reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Articles by Lynden Barber
19 November, 2021
On Screen: cinema releases and streaming teleseries from November 2021
In November's On Screen column, Lynden Barber recommends a Tom Hanks maritime thriller, a Netflix drama on domestic abuse and a crazily scattergun Romanian film satire.
18 October, 2021
On Screen: streaming teleseries from October 2021
In this month's column, Lynden Barber recommends two police series and the ABC's drama on the 2019–2020 Australian bush fire emergency.
21 September, 2021
On Screen: streaming teleseries from September 2021
In this month's column, Lynden Barber surveys a beautiful yet brutal slave drama and a well-crafted thriller.
11 August, 2021
On Screen: streaming and free-to-air from August 2021
Lynden Barber surveys a trio of female-led stories in long-form television, both streaming and free-to-air.
21 July, 2021
On Screen: streaming and free-to-air teleseries from July 2021
Lynden Barber surveys British heritage TV and the continuing fascination with the world of Jane Austen.
28 June, 2021
Review: Buckley’s Chance (Tim Brown)
This outback family adventure story turns the Crocodile Dundee fish-out-of-water story inside out.
16 June, 2021
On Screen: in cinemas and streaming from June 2021
In this month's column, Lynden Barber praises the storytelling efficiency of TV comedy and examines a film with a Maori theme.
24 May, 2021
Review: My Name is Gulpilil (Molly Reynolds)
In a personal documentary David Gulpilil looks back at his life and screen career.
19 May, 2021
On Screen: in cinemas and streaming from May 2021
Lynden Barber celebrates Latin American cinema with Chile’s Ema and Argentina’s Heroic Losers.
19 April, 2021
Review: Supernova (Harry Macqueen)
The performances are marvellously subtle but the film often feels soporific.
15 April, 2021
On Screen: in cinemas and streaming from April 2021
Lynden Barber turns to France in his latest column, spotlighting the fourth season of Call My Agent! and the film My Donkey, My Lover & I.
17 March, 2021
On Screen: in cinemas and streaming from March 2021
It’s certainly harder to justify regular visits to the multiplex when new feature films and serials of quality crop up on the various streaming services, writes Lynden Barber in his latest column.