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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…

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….