Category: Film ReviewsPage 9 of 32
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A sprawling, rhapsodic, kaleidoscopic experience Over his long career, the mercurial rock god, David Bowie, made…
PG, 91 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A timely, sombre investigation of homelessness among the growing demographic of older women who…
M, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Wondering what else he might get out of life as retirement approached, a crane operator in the…
MA 15+, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Claustrophobia in a sleeper compartment on a long train journey has a tension all its own…
M, 126 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This lovingly curated documentary on the celebrity American author and social satirist, Kurt Vonnegut, had a long gestation….
M, 144 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This extravagantly-mounted, lush period drama adapted from the book of the same name by Honore de Balzac…
M, 159 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The King has been gone a while now but that doesn’t mean people don’t feel a…
MA15+, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The latest relationship comedy from New Zealand is out there and experimental with some good…
M, 97 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s not hard to imagine how working in a kitchen as a sous-chef under one gastronomic eminence…
PG, 127 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Asghar Farhadi will never now go unnoticed. Not since he won…
PG, 109 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Travellers lucky enough to have visited Bhutan will have insights of their own into the small…
M, 130 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Why are we watching Top Gun: Maverick today? To see why Joe Biden got hooked on aviator…
MA 15+, 113 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It isn’t every day that the subject of a European film coincides neatly with events on the…
M, 122 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s a birthday party, Italian style, with an 18-year-old basking in all the love and attention as family…