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Queen & Slim

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…

Honeyland

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…

Undertow

∼∼ 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…

Motherless Brooklyn

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…

In My Blood It Runs

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,…

The Call of the Wild

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…

Emma

PG, 125 minutes All Canberra cinemas 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Emma Woodhouse, created by the 19th century novelist Jane Austen, is blessed with beauty, intelligence…

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2019

  The Nightingale won best feature film at the recent FCCA Awards 2019 in Sydney. The film’s star Aisling Franciosi received the award for best actress. Damon Herriman…

H is for Happiness

PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The advance media for this new film for young adults suggests it’s about a girl with a knack…

For Sama

MA15+, 84 minutes Dendy Canberra Centre 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This documentary is a letter for a little girl who was born during the conflict…

Seberg

M, 103 minutes Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra, Palace Electric Cinema 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the French film that made Jean Seberg famous, she…

Just Mercy

M, 137 Minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It took more courage than many of us would have thought necessary 30 years ago to leave home…

Dolittle

PG, 101 minutes Review by Jane Freebury 3 Stars The Dr Dolittle character was first created by a young British engineer while fighting in the trenches in World…

1917

MA 15+, 119 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For whatever reasons, World War I doesn’t figure nearly as much as World War II on the…

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

M, 119 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   A boat with a young female passenger on board makes its way along a rocky coastline. When…

The Truth

PG, 106 minutes­­­­­ 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This delicate, relatable family drama with a mother-daughter relationship at its core is set in the warm tones…

Sorry We Missed You

MA 15+, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by  © Jane Freebury Ken Loach is into his 80s now, still powering on as a firebrand for social justice with…

At home with The Truth: interview with director Hirokazu Kore-ada

By © Jane Freebury After winning the top prize at Cannes festival last year for his film, Shoplifters, the director Hirokazu Kore-ada went to work on a new…

The Two Popes: a mixed blessing

M, 126 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s an irresistible pleasure watching veteran actors Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce together on screen as Pope Benedict…

Mrs Lowry & Son

More about mother than son PG, 91 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It was lucky for the artist L .S. Lowry that his family fell…