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Diana the Musical

  M, 118 minutes 1 Star   Review by © Jane Freebury It’s easy to imagine Diana Spencer would have loved the idea of her life turned into…

The Guilty

  M, 90 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It’s always a bit of a jolt to be reminded how much drama a movie can…

The Donut King

M, 99 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Once during the spectacular rise of doughnut entrepreneur, Bun Tek Ngoy, his chain of fast-food outlets in West…

The Voyeurs

R 18+, 116 minutes 2 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury     The opening montage of this good-looking erotic thriller features the human eye in…

The Stronghold

MA 15+, 105 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The Hollywood buddy movie as we know it comes in various generic guises and is often…

Hating Peter Tatchell

MA 15+, 91 minutes 4 Stars       Review by © Jane Freebury Peter who? Just in case you aren’t sure you have the right person in…

Disclosure

MA 15+, 85 minutes 4 stars   Review by © Jane Freebury This new Australian indie has its reasons for opening with a vigorous sex scene. The sex…

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali

MA 15+, 96 minutes 4 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury   The day that he met Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X had no idea…

JJ+E

MA 15+, 91 minutes 3 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury When a film gets remade, it’s intriguing for the quizzical questions it prompts….

Annette

  MA 15+, 139 minutes 5 Stars In limited cinema release, and due to stream on Prime       Review by © Jane Freebury Every ten years…

Worth

M, 118 minutes Netflix 4 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury As a plane flies past in the early scenes of this 9/11 drama,…

First Ladies

PG & M, 6 x 40-minute episodes 5 Stars Streaming, SBS On Demand     Review by © Jane Freebury   A mixed-race guy, brought up in Hawaii,…

La Garçonne

  M & MA 15+ 6 x 50-minute episodes, subtitled Streaming, SBS On Demand 3 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury Paris in the 1920s might…

Beckett

A stumbling, loosely conceived action thriller that lacks conviction but has atmos, cinematography and music of mood, to recommend it   MA15+, 110 minutes 2 Stars Netflix  …

Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

PG, 101 minutes 3 Stars Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury   It’s surprising that the Chinese community that has made America home is under-represented on US cinema…

Miss

M, 107 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Beauty pageants demand so much more of contestants than they used to. Parading around in bikinis and…

Free Guy

PG, 115 minutes 3 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury Guy isn’t free, just programmed to look like it. When he gets ready for work each…

The Rose Maker

Despite some twee familiarity at the start, this story about a tough, committed businesswoman becomes a story about youth and second chances   M, 95 minutes 4 Stars…

The Souvenir

MA15+, 119 minutes Netflix 4 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury   This highly accomplished feature is a portrait of the artist as a…

Shiva Baby

  M, 99 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Who brings a baby to a shiva?’ Guests at a funeral keep asking each other the…