Category: Film ReviewsPage 11 of 31
As the first Kingsman movie opened eight years ago, the filmmakers were suggesting that it might fill the space that Bond was relinquishing. Maybe then, but not anymore.
M, 79 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It may not be the right year, or the real chef, or the exact historical moment when public…
MA15+, 128 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The worst person in the world is not as bad as it sounds, just…
MA 15+, 130 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury How absurd life looks through the eyes of an adolescent. Weird, grotesque, enticing, deadly. If only…
By © Jane Freebury It has been as good a year as any on screen during 2021, and there’s more to come. For the short term, at…
M, 108 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury If watching The French Dispatch feels like thumbing through an old-style print magazine…
MA 15+, 116 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A mind like a steel trap has its up and downside. Ever since he served…
No rating, 89 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It was never meant to be the way it turned out. Eric Clapton and a combo of…
R 18+, 108 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury So, the jury at Cannes has given the Palme d’Or to a film directed by a woman….
M, 71 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s a doggie world in Stray. A singular doco about the dogs that live on the streets…
R 18+, 106 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury After whips, masks and explicit sex open the show, this argumentative, chaotic film from Romania…
M, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When the junior soccer team and coach who went missing inside a vast underground cave system…
M, 127 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Sensuality laced with violence often features in the films of writer-director Jane Campion whose remarkable career,…
PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Two women with completely different approaches to life, meet by…
MA 15+, 153 minutes 4 Stars Powerful and immersive, despite making a shift away from the usual driven narrative style and embarking into 14th century gender politics…
MA 15+, 130 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury With or without a head on his shoulders, the Green Knight who disrupts a feast at…
MA 15+, 112 minutes Three stars Review by © Jane Freebury Among the lists recommending the best of this or that out on the net, there are…
MA 15+, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Without a lot to go on, little things loom large in…
M, 82 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury As a doco about the overlooked, drummers who were integral to the success of famous rock bands but…