The Fox Review: Off-Beat, Surrealist Aussie Comedy Is Not As Weird As It Should Be

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Perhaps the most hubristic part of the human brain is the one that thinks it can control itself against its basest desires. That's at least the tenuous philosophical premise of The Fox, Dario Russo's dry, absurdist dark comedy. The Australian writer-director making his feature debut at SXSW 2026 may protest that his film is devoid of a moral story, or so the titular fox (Olivia Colman) seems to argue, but the movie's core arguments are clear: Man is a fickle beast, no different from any other in the animal kingdom, whose sexual desires are defined by egocentrism.

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