Dr Luke Buckmaster is a professional film, TV and virtual reality critic who has been writing film reviews since 1997. He is film critic for The Guardian Australia, chief critic of Flicks.com.au (Australia’s most popular movie publication) and runs the world-first virtual reality review website The VR Critic.

Buckmaster has contributed to a wide range of other publications including BBC Culture, VICE, The Griffith Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Senses of Cinema. He has lectured about cinema for LaTrobe University, taught at the Australian School of Film and Television, and co-hosted The Critics, an Australian television series that ran on ABC iView program for two seasons, in 2016 and 2017.

Buckmaster wrote Miller and Max: George Miller and the making of a film legend, a biography of Mad Max filmmaker George Miller, published by Hardie Grant in 2017. In 2022 he completed a doctoral thesis on VR as an emerging art form, arguing that virtual and mixed reality are unique mediums requiring their own language, syntax and critical discourse.

In 2017, Buckmaster’s first book was published: a behind-the-scenes account of the Mad Max movies titledBuckmaster was nd in 2022 completed his doctoral thesis on virtual reality as a form of artistic expression.