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The Woman King

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…

Decision to Leave

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,…

Interview with Dominik Moll, director, The Night of the 12th

  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…

Muru

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…

Amsterdam

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…

See How They Run

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…

Moonage Daydream

M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury     A sprawling, rhapsodic, kaleidoscopic experience Over his long career, the mercurial rock god, David Bowie, made…

Under Cover

  PG, 91 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury       A timely, sombre investigation of homelessness among the growing demographic of older women who…

Eric Gravel, director of Full Time, discusses his new film featuring Laure Calamy

By © Jane Freebury The last time we saw Laure Calamy, she was chasing her married lover on a hiking holiday in rural France. Her character ends up…

Where the Crawdads Sing

M, 125 minutes 2 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The fanfare launching this movie about a fiercely independent young woman living in the swamp wilderness who…

The Phantom of the Open

M, 106 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Wondering what else he might get out of life as retirement approached, a crane operator in the…

Compartment No 6

MA 15+, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Claustrophobia in a sleeper compartment on a long train journey has a tension all its own…

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

M, 126 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This lovingly curated documentary on the celebrity American author and social satirist, Kurt Vonnegut, had a long gestation….

Lost Illusions

  M, 144 minutes 5 Stars  Review by © Jane Freebury This extravagantly-mounted, lush period drama adapted from the book of the same name by Honore de Balzac…

Man Vs Bee

PG, 102 minutes Netflix 3 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury Man on bicycle rides into gated property towards designer mansion in the modern style. The…

Elvis

  M, 159 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   The King has been gone a while now but that doesn’t mean people don’t feel a…

Nude Tuesday

      MA15+, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The latest relationship comedy from New Zealand is out there and experimental with some good…

The Kitchen Brigade

  M, 97 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s not hard to imagine how working in a kitchen as a sous-chef under one gastronomic eminence…

A Hero

    PG, 127 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Asghar Farhadi will never now go unnoticed. Not since he won…

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

  PG, 109 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Travellers lucky enough to have visited Bhutan will have insights of their own into the small…