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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…
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
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…