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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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
MA15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This political drama from Denmark is about an indomitable female leader prepared to make…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
M, 135 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set against a dark backstory, this exhilarating tale of Amazon women, brimming with female energy, has more going…
M, 139 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If the director of this moody, compelling murder mystery was inspired to make movies after watching Vertigo,…
Dominik Moll discusses how The Night of the 12th moves beyond the murder suspects into community attitudes towards victim behaviour By © Jane Freebury A film…
MA15+, 105 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Pumped police take the film into actioner territory, despite the breathtaking landscapes and issues of divided…
MA 15+, 134 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set in New York in 1933, this tale about love, friendship and politics would have been so…
M, 98 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Riffing on Agatha Christie’s work, it has a focus on its a pair of unlikely young coppers…