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MA 15+, 115 minutes 4 Stars Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury This movie about a contract killer isn’t what it might seem. People mown down like skittles,…
M, 114 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been told and retold for screen many times since the days of silent cinema,…
G, 100 minutes 1 Star Review by © Jane Freebury The latest Garfield movie starts off in the usual vein for the tubby orange cat. It’s never too…
PG, 95 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It all begins with an omelette. Not any old omelette, but one made French style with chopped fresh…
M, 126 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Among the vignettes of daily life in a Mexican city that open this film, some are mundane while…
PG, 126 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury An artless simplicity belies the complexity of this new film from Japan, a drama that takes place in…
PG, 145 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s a waltz around the kitchen as cooks prepare banquets to while away the hours in this quintessentially…
M, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There is no shortage of idealistic, inspiring teachers in front of rowdy, listless or hostile classrooms at the…
M, 109 minutes Three Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Several weeks before he died, Sigmund Freud met with an Oxford professor whose identity remains a mystery. As…
M, 103 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Scoop opens on a clear winter’s day in New York in 2010 at the apartment of a tabloid…
M, 141 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury At the start of this impressive, immersive study of race relations in the United States, an African American…
PG, 125 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Simplicity and lyrical fluidity are hallmarks of the style of veteran German filmmaker, Wim Wenders. So are the…
MA 15+, 122 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This story out of Africa is drawn from first-person accounts by survivors of the harrowing overland journey…
M, 118 minutes Netflix 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The groundswell for civil rights was growing in 1972 but it took a Black American woman, a…
MA 15+, 91 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If a sense of déjà vu begins to develop as the best holiday ever descends into the…
M, 96 minutes Three Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This affectionate tribute to two great names of the screen is a gentle and dignified finale that will…
M, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Among a group of terrorists arrested in Libya in 2016 were two young Tunisian sisters who remain in…
M, 105 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury So much careful and thoughtful prep has gone into this film, told with such restraint, but the impact…
M, 81 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s not yet winter in this new film from Finland, but a chill in the air has you…
M, 117 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury After watching this migrant story about leaving Korea behind and building a new life in Canada, I found…