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To Olivia

  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,…

Petit Maman

      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…

Nowhere Special

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…

Loveland

M, 102 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Who could have foreseen that the talented Ivan Sen would set his heart on making a science fiction…

Miss Marx

  M, 107 minutes 3 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury Details of the family life of a titan of modern philosophy may hold…

Benedetta

    R 18+, 131 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The story of a lesbian affair inside a 17th century convent told by the…

Gold

  M, 97 minutes 3 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury Two nameless men, a pack of wild dogs and a scorpion make…

The Card Counter

  MA 15+, 116 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   A mind like a steel trap has its up and downside. Ever since he served…

Titane

R 18+, 108 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury So, the jury at Cannes has given the Palme d’Or to a film directed by a woman….

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

  R 18+, 106 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury After whips, masks and explicit sex open the show, this argumentative, chaotic film from Romania…

The Green Knight

  MA 15+, 130 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury With or without a head on his shoulders, the Green Knight who disrupts a feast at…

Nitram

MA 15+, 112 minutes  Three stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Among the lists recommending the best of this or that out on the net, there are…

The Guilty

  M, 90 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It’s always a bit of a jolt to be reminded how much drama a movie can…

The Donut King

M, 99 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Once during the spectacular rise of doughnut entrepreneur, Bun Tek Ngoy, his chain of fast-food outlets in West…

The Stronghold

MA 15+, 105 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The Hollywood buddy movie as we know it comes in various generic guises and is often…

JJ+E

MA 15+, 91 minutes 3 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury When a film gets remade, it’s intriguing for the quizzical questions it prompts….

La Garçonne

  M & MA 15+ 6 x 50-minute episodes, subtitled Streaming, SBS On Demand 3 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury Paris in the 1920s might…

Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

PG, 101 minutes 3 Stars Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury   It’s surprising that the Chinese community that has made America home is under-represented on US cinema…

Miss

M, 107 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Beauty pageants demand so much more of contestants than they used to. Parading around in bikinis and…

Free Guy

PG, 115 minutes 3 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury Guy isn’t free, just programmed to look like it. When he gets ready for work each…