Alice Englert – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

EXTRA GEOGRAPHY (Sundance FF 2026) – Review by Sherin Nicole

February 3, 2026February 4, 2026 Sherin Nicole Alice Englert, English boarding school, Extra Geography, Galaxie Clear, Marni Duggan, Miriam Battye, Molly Manners

From the very first moments in the classrooms of Extra Geography, we realize that Minna and Flic (Galaxie Clear and Marni Duggan) want desperately to be in sync; they slow down or speed up to match each other’s pace, but they are already slightly out of rhythm. They don’t know this, but with personality quirks and sharp dialogue, director Molly Manners ensures we do. Those little seeds reveal Minna and Flic’s suppressed individuality, growing into tension in this comedy of ‘Manners’.

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BAD BEHAVIOUR – Review by Betsy Pickle

June 6, 2024June 6, 2024 Betsy Pickle Alice Englert, australian films, Bad Behaviour, Ben Whishaw, Dasha Nekrasova, Jennifer Connelly

I can think of two reasons why directors like to work on projects set in the world of moviemaking: It’s a milieu that’s familiar to them, and it’s a genre that audiences seem to enjoy. That’s especially true when a movie pokes fun at celebrity foibles and bad behavior that appear to have real-life inspiration. Bad Behaviour avoids the supposed glamor of filmmaking and operates on the edges of that scene. It has some of the trappings of the genre, but it skews dark and throws a net over a variety of issues that affect celebrities and regular folks alike.

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BAD BEHAVIOUR – Review by Nadine Whitney

August 25, 2023August 27, 2023 Nadine Whitney Alice Englert, Bad Behaviour, Ben Whishaw, Dasha Nekrasova, jane campion, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Williams

Australian/New Zealand actor Alice Englert steps into the director’s chair for the abundantly absurd black comedy Bad Behaviour that satirizes everything from New Age wellness cults to the entertainment industry, motherhood, youth and power, and, naturally, bad behaviour. Bad Behaviour is the work of a young director who has yet to find her feet. It works best when it leans into satire but falls apart in sincerity. There are moments of effective near surrealism that prove that Englert has a handle on the absurd, but she’s yet to manage how to balance tonality and unearth authenticity inside her premise.

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THEM THAT FOLLOW – Review by Martha K Baker

July 26, 2019November 30, 2021 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments Alice Englert, Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage, Olivia Colman, them that follow

The “them” in the title refers to the fundamentalists who believe that handling snakes will prove their faith to their judgmental godforce. In a sect deep in the woods of Appalachia, a preacher guides his daughter Mara, meaning “bitter,” toward heaven, or his definition of heaven, not hers.