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Saltburn

MA 15+, 131 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For someone hanging out for an invitation to stay with members of the English upper class on…

Foe

M, 110 Minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Late into the evening, a car travels through arid, spectral landscape before stopping outside an isolated farmhouse. The…

Monolith

M, 93 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In an age of blockbusters with budgets over 200 million dollars, here is a movie that confirms some…

The Crime is Mine

M, 102 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Two heads are better than one. So it goes, for two young women, an actress and a lawyer,…

Fair Play

MA 15+, 115 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It’s great to know that at least some of the people can find time for a…

BlackBerry

M, 120 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This tale is one for our fast-changing times. It is about how a small technology innovator got together…

The Miracle Club

PG, 90 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It is a bit of a surprise to see a film like this arrive on the big screen….

Sugar and Stars

M, 110 minutes, subtitled 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This story of a young chef so dedicated to his craft that he camped on the beach…

Carmen

M, 117 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This new take on the ravishing gypsy woman who can never belong to anyone is striking. From its…

Belle & Sebastian: Next Generation

PG, 97 minutes, subtitles 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When no one else understands or appreciates you, a big hound at least as big as yourself…

No Hard Feelings

MA 15+, 103 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When an old pop song is performed solo in this battle of the sexes for millennials, it…

The Little Mermaid

  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…

Ten Pound Poms TV series about postwar Brit migrants

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,…

The Portable Door

    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…

Women Talking

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…

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…

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…

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…