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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PG, 91 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A timely, sombre investigation of homelessness among the growing demographic of older women who…
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…
MA15+, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The latest relationship comedy from New Zealand is out there and experimental with some good…
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…
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…
M, 94 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a promising start to this new film that visits the life of the famous children’s author,…
PG, 73 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s my guess there are few filmmakers who could make a success of the story…
M, 95 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The relationship between fathers and sons is closely observed in this low-key family drama set in Northern…