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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…

Stars at Noon

  MA15+, 138 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Adapted from a novel set in Nicaragua, this new film from the French auteur Claire Denis…

Margrete: Queen of the North

  MA15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars       Review by © Jane Freebury This political drama from Denmark is about an indomitable female leader prepared to make…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

M, 139 minutes 4 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury When the world’s greatest detective turns up as a house guest on a private Greek island,…

She Said

M, 129 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   It’s not that long ago now, only five years. Yet it still feels like things have turned…

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the closing scenes of this impressive, entertaining documentary on Black American cinema, the figure of actor-director Sidney…

My Father’s Dragon

PG, 100 minutes 3 Stars   As visually entrancing as the hand drawn classics of yesteryear, and while the characters are slight it resonates with the issues of…

The Velvet Queen

M, 92 minutes 4 Stars   Review by ©  Jane Freebury A quest for a rare and beautiful creature in one of the most remote locations on earth…

The Wonder

M, 112 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Every fiction feature is an invitation to believe. If it’s the promise of raw experience or of…

Whina

PG, 112 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury At a time of mass protests around the world, the indigenous people of New Zealand were facing…

The Woman King

M, 135 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set against a dark backstory, this exhilarating tale of Amazon women, brimming with female energy, has more going…

Decision to Leave

M, 139 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury If the director of this moody, compelling murder mystery was inspired to make movies after watching Vertigo,…

Muru

MA15+, 105 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   Pumped police take the film into actioner territory, despite the breathtaking landscapes and issues of divided…

Amsterdam

MA 15+, 134 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set in New York in 1933, this tale about love, friendship and politics would have been so…

See How They Run

M, 98 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Riffing on Agatha Christie’s work, it has a focus on its a pair of unlikely young coppers…