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Review © Jane Freebury The title doesn’t give much away. Just that it’s about the wartime leader,…
4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man…
Review by © Jane Freebury This sweeping historical drama is the work of a filmmaker with a happy knack for the comic and the absurd, and for…
Review by © Jane Freebury Who was Heath Ledger? His take on the Joker, Batman’s nemesis in The Dark Knight, was transfixing, with a vicious malevolence that…
Review by © Jane Freebury The future? Impossible to predict, we know that at least. There’s no way to escape it. And now something they call disruption…
Review © Jane Freebury Is peace between former enemies possible while the horror of war still haunts them? The process certainly gets complicated in the latest…
Reviewed by Jane Freebury If Irreplaceable, the original title of this genial tale seems a bit over-stated, the title for English speaking audiences, The Country Doctor,…
Review by © Jane Freebury A rag-tag bunch of German soldiers, some barely men. A beautiful beach on the Danish coast, and it’s spring. Now that the war…
Review by © Jane Freebury The films of writer-director Asghar Farhadi are taut, tense, obliquely scripted and immaculately performed. His latest film in similar vein…
Review by © Jane Freebury The film of the popular novel by Craig Silvey is not so much about Jasper. It’s about his loyal, younger friend during…
review by © Jane Freebury Here’s one from a director we can expect to throw us a curve ball. Silence is the story of two Jesuit priests…
My Cousin Rachel Handsome, lush, gorgeous to look at and not nearly as over the top as the trailer suggests. Romantic obsession has been plausibly updated,…
Review by © Jane Freebury It is no small irony that the main character in Manchester by the Sea is a dependable handyman who can fix anything and…
Review by © Jane Freebury A little boy lost with no way home. As he wanders through throngs of strangers in the streets of Kolkata, several things can…
Review by © Jane Freebury Why this? Why now? A singing-dancing entertainment brimming with optimism to close a tough, unruly year and open a new one that…
Review by © Jane Freebury A refusal to submit to authority has pride of place in movies from down under. Here we expect a film about a…
… in no particular order: Love and Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (dir. Taika Waititi) Nocturnal Animals (dir. Tom Ford) The BFG (dir. Steven…
Review © by Jane Freebury Would this film have attracted much attention without the name of Jim Jarmusch attached to it? About a loving and contented couple,…
Review © by Jane Freebury Nocturnal Animals is without question a transporting tale, stylish and clever, but it is also an onslaught of cruelty, yearning and pathos. A…
Review © Jane Freebury It is clear that Ken Loach, who turned 80 this year, will never retire. Making films about people who are disadvantaged and dispossessed has…