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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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
M, 95 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There is a smidgeon of voyeurism in this latest comedy for retirees about ladies…
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…
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…
MA 15+, 87 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If he has seen and done it all now, the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski who made his…
M, 102 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is one of those movies that turns out to have a lot more to it than…
PG, 116 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set in old London town on the double decker route to Shoreditch, this new Australian film…
M, 131 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This movie about a lynching that galvanised the 1950s American civil rights movement opens on a family…
M, 101 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This lovely, enigmatic piece about a young father on holiday with his 11-year-old…
M, 104 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury First impressions are telling. So, it probably irritates actors terribly that the personas in roles that announced them…
M, 144 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When the size of a woman’s waist was something that mattered so much her body was…
M, 104 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In this delicate study of a close friendship in adolescence, two best friends forever with strong and happy…
Despite brilliantly, lovingly crafted visuals, the irresistible strangeness of the original tale is lost in an allegory of political thuggery M, 117 minutes 3 Stars…
MA15+, 135 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There must be 5.7 million chapters to the refugee story that has come out of Syria since…