Category: Film ReviewsPage 17 of 32
Pitch-perfect performances all round, a beautifully crafted drama about a teenager’s last fling at life M, 118 Minutes Dendy, Palace Electric 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury…
a fascinating tribute to Pierre Cardin, fashion visionary, whose work is ‘never done’ G, 97 minutes Palace Electric 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury How famous people…
Despite the deadpan, Ferrell doesn’t sink his Eurovision caper entirely M, 123 minutes 3 Stars Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury The Eurovision Song Contest scheduled for May…
A silent doco observes a world gone mad M, 97 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For obscure reasons, It Must Be Heaven begins during an…
M, 98 minutes 2 stars Palace Electric Review by © Jane Freebury This letter to loved ones lost begins with a young woman on a mad dash across…
Cover-up and complicity all in a day’s work M, 87 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Her job begins at the office before dawn, making ready…
Subtle, taut drama that resonates beyond the family farm M, 86 minutes Streaming on Stan 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is an impressive, subtle drama…
Taylor Swift and the pop music doco M, 85 minutes 3 Stars Streaming on Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury More often than not, a documentary about a…
Another spin with Meryl Streep 3 Stars By © Jane Freebury In shapeless, comfy clothes and floppy grey wig, Meryl Streep is barely recognisable in her latest film,…
By © Jane Freebury Odds are that someone somewhere has already come up with a phrase to nail the international health emergency that we are living through right…
Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Six Degrees of Separation, a film from 1993, had a catchy idea and title to match that has had the distinction…
Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson, 1970) Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Every now and then, our most popular folk hero is taken out of storage, dusted down…
A brilliant, brooding adaptation of Shakespeare on leadership and power MA15+, 140 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Now the streaming platforms are windows on the…
Combines style and charisma to make the point MA15+, 132 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars The date at a diner wasn’t going well. She had…
M, 86 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A wild and rugged landscape, a cast of thousands of airborne extras and their solitary beekeeper feature in…
∼∼ Big on atmosphere, light on plot MA 15+, 95 minutes 3 stars Review by © Jane Freebury The backstory to this atmospheric, moody psychodrama is the dark…
Pet project made with a free hand M, 144 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Edward Norton has had a lot of time to think this…
Difficult questions, no easy answers PG, 90 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In September last year, a 12-year-old Indigenous boy from Alice Springs, Dujuan Hoosan,…
A wild journey with a pretend dog PG, 100 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury By the look of the bio of the American author, Jack…