Prime Minister

A new film review of Prime Minister, directed by Lindsay Urz & Michelle Walshe, for film review site In Review Online.Released — under no coincidental pretexts — within the same month as Jacinda Ardern’s autobiographical memoir of her time as New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz’s synonymous documentary provides not an analysis or journalistic overview of her tenure, but an exaggerated puff piece where the intrapersonal rumination of “can I be both a new mother and Prime Minister?” supersedes.

Prime Minister | Movie review. 5th December 2025. Andrew Murray. Avatar.Small jabs are made towards Donald Trump and Boris Johnson (particularly in their response to COVID) throughout, but it’s images of the 2022 riots that led to fires being set in the grounds of New Zealand’s parliament that act as a powerful symbol of the rift in current politics. With violent rhetoric still on the rise, Ardern’s message of empathy is more poignant than ever, and filmmakers Walshe and Utz show exactly why in this inspirational documentary.