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Carmen

M, 117 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This new take on the ravishing gypsy woman who can never belong to anyone is striking. From its…

The New Boy

M, 116 minutes 5 Stars Review by Jane © Freebury In startling opening scenes, a boy trying to escape from police is felled by a boomerang, bundled into…

Other People’s Children

M, 107 minutes, subtitles 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This gentle, relatable relationship drama set in the city of love and romance explores a sadly common…

Belle & Sebastian: Next Generation

PG, 97 minutes, subtitles 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When no one else understands or appreciates you, a big hound at least as big as yourself…

Reality

M, 83 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The name of the young security contractor at the centre of this tense, meticulously plotted drama comes as…

No Hard Feelings

MA 15+, 103 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When an old pop song is performed solo in this battle of the sexes for millennials, it…

You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings film review by Jane Freebury

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

M, 108 minutes 2 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury What would possess someone to walk the length of England, from southernmost Devon to the Scottish border?…

One Fine Morning

MA 15+, 113 minutes, subtitled 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury One fine day, did Mia Hansen-Love wake up with the idea of casting James Bond’s…

Sweet As

Risks to at-risk Indigenous youth are clear yet peripheral in this fresh and assured perspective on life choices in the magnificent, remote North-West

The Little Mermaid

  PG, 135 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The little mermaid, Ariel, a daughter of the king of the sea who yearns to become…

Ivan Sen on the outback noir in Limbo

  By © Jane Freebury With digs as far as the eye can see, the remote mining town of Coober Pedy has attracted the attention of many filmmakers,…

Quant

M, 82 minutes 4 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury  As she says herself in this documentary packed with talking heads and sixties fashion, diva of…

Ten Pound Poms TV series about postwar Brit migrants

Screening on STAN, BBC I, six 52-minute episodes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   For such a big cohort, there have been fewer stories on screen,…

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…

Interview with Rolf de Heer on his new film, The Survival of Kindness

    Set against the beautiful backdrops of Australian desert and mountain wilderness, foregrounding brutality and compassion in a post-apocalyptic world, there is, as with each of his…

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…

Louis Garrel, director of The Innocent, interview

  By © Jane Freebury A comedy about a caring son caught up in a heist as he tries to protect his transgressive mother, has a lot going…

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…