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Top Gun: Maverick

  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…

Everything Went Fine, aka Tout S’Est Bien Passe

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…

Maigret a one-off, says director Patrice Leconte

    By © Jane Freebury The versatile, veteran French filmmaker Patrice Leconte, whose work includes fine films like The Hairdresser’s Husband, Ridicule, Girl on the Bridge and…

A Chiara

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…

Ablaze

PG, 81 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   As personal as it is, this new documentary is likely to be a revelation for many. It…

To Olivia

  M, 94 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a promising start to this new film that visits the life of the famous children’s author,…

Petit Maman

      PG, 73 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s my guess there are few filmmakers who could make a success of the story…

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

M, 121 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury On the face of it, an anthology or portmanteau movie can look like it has plenty going for…

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  M, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Nic Cage playing Nick Cage in this toey new Hollywood number plays along with the persona that…

When the Camera Stopped Rolling

4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The long list of credits for this intimate, handsomely crafted documentary looks like a who’s who for the local film industry….

Ithaka

  M, 111 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Since Wikileaks, the organization he founded, sensationally uploaded hundreds of thousands of files of classified information…

Fred Cavaye on point about Farewell Mr Haffmann

              By © Jane Freebury What happens when a good person switchessides? What drives someone to take that one fateful step from…

Happening

R 18+, 99 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It doesn’t quite capture its original French title, L’Evenement meaning the event, but if the name…

Memoria

PG, 136 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The new film from Apichatpong Weerasthakul, is a big step for the celebrated indie director. Filmed in the…

The Duke

M, 95 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury When a portrait by a Spanish master went missing in 1961 from the National Gallery in London,…

Nowhere Special

M, 95 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The relationship between fathers and sons is closely observed in this low-key family drama set in Northern…

Loveland

M, 102 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Who could have foreseen that the talented Ivan Sen would set his heart on making a science fiction…

Friends and Strangers

MA 15+, 82 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It’s going to be a challenge for the rest of us when a filmmaker says he…

Bergman Island

M, 113 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   Ask any writer. Who wouldn’t love to spend weeks on end at work at a writer’s…

Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow

PG, 89 minutes 4 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury  As the mighty Murray carves a channel through limestone cliffs and winds across…