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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…

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

  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…

The Swimmers

  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…

Triangle of Sadness

  Harris Dickinson makes light in Triangle of Sadness. Courtesy Sharmill Films M, 147 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury If the big name fashion…

The Lost King

  M, 108 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s careless losing a king, but finding his body under a carpark nearly five hundred later is…

Jerome Salle, interview with director of Kompromat

Interview by © Jane Freebury   Keeping political opponents in check by threatening to expose their compromising behaviour, true or otherwise, is not exclusive to Russia, but seems…

The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari

PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   One bright, clear December morning several years back, a group of intrepid day-trippers keen to visit…

Best seen on screen in 2022

Only the best in 2022 By © Jane Freebury Back at the cinema sure helped, but the end of lockdown can’t explain the astonishing success of Top Gun:…

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  MA 15+, 126 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury With an eye to the young female demographic, this new version of one of the…

Neptune Frost

  M, 110 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The creatives behind this dystopian indie set in the heartlands of Africa know a thing or two…

The Road Dance

M, 117 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   The islands of the Outer Hebrides have a wild beauty all their own, captured within the frame…

Stars at Noon

  MA15+, 138 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Adapted from a novel set in Nicaragua, this new film from the French auteur Claire Denis…

Margrete: Queen of the North

  MA15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars       Review by © Jane Freebury This political drama from Denmark is about an indomitable female leader prepared to make…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

M, 139 minutes 4 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury When the world’s greatest detective turns up as a house guest on a private Greek island,…

She Said

M, 129 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   It’s not that long ago now, only five years. Yet it still feels like things have turned…

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the closing scenes of this impressive, entertaining documentary on Black American cinema, the figure of actor-director Sidney…

My Father’s Dragon

PG, 100 minutes 3 Stars   As visually entrancing as the hand drawn classics of yesteryear, and while the characters are slight it resonates with the issues of…

The Velvet Queen

M, 92 minutes 4 Stars   Review by ©  Jane Freebury A quest for a rare and beautiful creature in one of the most remote locations on earth…

The Wonder

M, 112 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Every fiction feature is an invitation to believe. If it’s the promise of raw experience or of…

Whina

PG, 112 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury At a time of mass protests around the world, the indigenous people of New Zealand were facing…