“The Royal Hotel,” the setting of Kitty Green’s ulcer-inducing thriller, is a sun-baked bar in a rural Australian mining town surrounded by terrain so monotone that Canadian backpackers Hanna (Julia ...

What young women must endure is the theme of Kitty Green's two features. It was the focus of her debut, "The Assistant," in which the title character (Julia Garner) was abused and harassed in her ...

Fresh off the plane and in need of money, two Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town.

Another gift from South Australia, after the recent hit “Talk to Me,” “The Royal Hotel” is a cautionary trip to a dark and arid corner of mindless, toxic masculinity. Hanna (Julia Garner, “The ...

It’s every young woman’s worst nightmare: being stuck in unfamiliar territory surrounded by intimidating men. While backpacking through Australia, Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) learn they’ve run ...

Neon is sending Jessica Henwick and Julia Garner to the Outback with the first trailer for The Royal Hotel, the second narrative feature from director Kitty Green. Her latest is a narrative adaptation ...

In 2019, Australian documentary filmmaker Kitty Green made her first narrative movie, a piercing almost cinéma vérité-style movie focused on an office assistant in a Tribeca film company run by a ...

Apart from a brief period during which she was a live-in student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary — which she leaves after defying the headmistress, Miss Lyon (Sara Vertongen), whose religious ...

“I am scared of everything and everyone in this place.” The film is inspired by the documentary “Hotel Coolgardie,” but it also feels like a distaff cousin of “Wake in Fright,” the ferocious 1971 Ted ...

A retelling of the events in 'Hotel Coolgardie,' the queasy thriller plops Julia Garner and Jessica Fenwick in a rural Australian pub where the beer is cold and tempers are hot. The worst part? This ...