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Interview with Cedric Jimenez, director of November

By © Jane Freebury A kinetic thriller based on the police response to terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 was the most successful local film at the French…

The Survival of Kindness

M, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Rolf de Heer has at last arrived. A drama with a cool, fierce intensity…

80 for Brady

M, 95 minutes 2 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury There is a smidgeon of voyeurism in this latest comedy for retirees about ladies…

Mafia Mamma

  MA 15+, 101 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It is a delicious idea, nearly as good as home-made pasta. A middle-aged working mum in…

EO

MA 15+, 87 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If he has seen and done it all now, the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski who made his…

Linoleum

M, 102 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury This is one of those movies that turns out to have a lot more to it than…

The Portable Door

    PG, 116 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set in old London town on the double decker route to Shoreditch, this new Australian film…

Till

M, 131 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   This movie about a lynching that galvanised the 1950s American civil rights movement opens on a family…

Aftersun

M, 101 minutes 4 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury This lovely, enigmatic piece about a young father on holiday with his 11-year-old…

Women Talking

M, 104 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury First impressions are telling. So, it probably irritates actors terribly that the personas in roles that announced them…

Corsage

    M, 144 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When the size of a woman’s waist was something that mattered so much her body was…

Close

M, 104 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In this delicate study of a close friendship in adolescence, two best friends forever with strong and happy…

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

  Despite brilliantly, lovingly crafted visuals, the irresistible strangeness of the original tale is lost in an allegory of political thuggery     M, 117 minutes 3 Stars…

The Swimmers

  MA15+, 135 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There must be 5.7 million chapters to the refugee story that has come out of Syria since…

Triangle of Sadness

  Harris Dickinson makes light in Triangle of Sadness. Courtesy Sharmill Films M, 147 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury If the big name fashion…

The Lost King

  M, 108 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s careless losing a king, but finding his body under a carpark nearly five hundred later is…

The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari

PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   One bright, clear December morning several years back, a group of intrepid day-trippers keen to visit…

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  MA 15+, 126 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury With an eye to the young female demographic, this new version of one of the…

Neptune Frost

  M, 110 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The creatives behind this dystopian indie set in the heartlands of Africa know a thing or two…

The Road Dance

M, 117 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   The islands of the Outer Hebrides have a wild beauty all their own, captured within the frame…