Category: Film ReviewsPage 18 of 32
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…
PG, 1 hr 57 mins All Canberra cinemas 4 Stars Life was all mapped out. Young Javed would become an accountant, an estate agent, or even a lawyer,…
Cinemas everywhere 4 Stars Review @ Jane Freebury It’s the start of another California day where careers are made, lost, or peter away under a peerless blue sky….
Rated MA 15+, 1 hr 58 mins All cinemas 3.5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury In 1966, Long Tan was just an abandoned village inside a rubber plantation…
Rated M, 1 hr 46 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review © Jane Freebury The true story of Ophelia is a ripe, juicy…
Rated M, 2 hrs 7 mins Dendy Canberra Centre and Palace Electric New Acton 3.5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury Before the great Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected…
Rated G, 93 mins Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury There are no talking heads recalling the event…