Category: Film ReviewsPage 18 of 32
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
M, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the bad old days, rock stars were by definition blokes and a bit of poor behaviour went…
The director’s director up against the comic book heroes By © Jane Freebury Every city has to have one. A film festival. Just about every region on earth…
M, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The missing middle word in the title of this strenuous and thoughtful film is torture. The inconvenient truth…
G, 86 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s often hard to see how creatures born in the wild, just a bundle of knobbly limbs and…
MA15+, 114 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The actor Antonio Banderas and director Pedro Almodovar first worked together in the 1980s and helped make each…
Up, up and away to freedom M, 125 minutes 3 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is the story of two young families, the Strelzyks and the…