Caleb Landry Jones is unbearably vivid in a film that's all the more stomach-churning for the violence that it leaves offscreen. It would be hard to overstate the fear that I felt in anticipation of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With “Nitram,” which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, Australian director Justin Kurzel set himself ...
“We don’t understand it. And I guess we never will,” says the police officer on TV, somewhere in the background of Justin Kurzel’s dark-hearted new drama Nitram. The footage is real – a clipped news ...
Caleb Landry Jones plays the disturbed perpetrator of the worst lone gunman shooting in modern Australian history in the director's taut social-realist thriller. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic ...
Australians own more guns today than they did in 1996. That year, the country’s largest mass shooting — the Port Arthur Massacre — led the government to swiftly adopt landmark gun control legislation, ...
Justin Kurzel’s exceptionally disturbing, horribly plausible “Nitram” opens with an excerpt from a 1979 Australian news report on firework accidents. A boy of about 12 is being interviewed from his ...
A decade after making a strong impression with his debut feature, The Snowtown Murders, Australian director Justin Kurzel has turned up at the Cannes Film Festival with another arresting mass-murder ...
A film about the perpetrator of Australia’s worst mass shooting was always going to be controversial. After 25 years, Tasmania’s Port Arthur massacre — in which 35 people were killed and scores more ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It would be hard to overstate the fear that I felt in anticipation of watching Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram” (an experience that I’ve ...
With “Nitram,” which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, Australian director Justin Kurzel set himself up with an impossible task: How do you make a film that is upfront ...
A decade after making a strong impression with his debut feature, The Snowtown Murders, Australian director Justin Kurzel has turned up at the Cannes Film Festival with another arresting mass-murder ...