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, ...

This Cannes Competition title arrives at a time when mass shootings, sadly, remain very much in the news. (It’s worth noting that, in 2003, a similarly-themed drama, Elephant, won the Palme d’Or.) ...

“Nitram” is a chilling film about a mass shooting that took place in 1996 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Director Justin Kurzel (“The Snowtown Murders“) generates an absolute sense of dread in almost every ...

The long fuse of Justin Kurzel's filmmaking meets the nervy flame of Caleb Landry Jones' performance in a devastating study of atrocity. “Nitram,” written by Kurzel’s “Snowtown” and “True History of ...

In late April 1996, 35 people were killed and 23 others were wounded after a 28-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania. It took less than two weeks after the shooting for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

There is a scene early on in Nitram, Justin Kurzel's bull-headed portrait of the man responsible for the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, in which leading man Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside ...

In Nitram, Caleb Landry Jones plays the man who killed 35 people and wounded 23 others in a 1996 mass shooting in Australia. In late April 1996, 35 people were killed and 23 others were wounded after ...