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The High Note

A rambling, amiable comedy romance that hits the right light notes while making a point about women in the music industry   M, 113 minutes 3 Stars Review…

All Together Now

A glossily produced sugar hit, with serious backstory and talent on board, that sings its way out of issues it skirts   M, 133 minutes 3 Stars Netflix…

Fatima

a faith-based story for believers that attempts to interrogate its subject, but never follows through M, 113 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A love of…

Litigante

M, 95 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Harried parents of young children know full well that some days everything seems to be happening at once….

Eurovision Song Contest: the Story of Fire Saga

Despite the deadpan, Ferrell doesn’t sink his Eurovision caper entirely M, 123 minutes 3 Stars Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury The Eurovision Song Contest scheduled for May…

Taylor Swift: Miss Americana

Taylor Swift and the pop music doco M, 85 minutes 3 Stars Streaming on Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury More often than not, a documentary about a…

The Laundromat

Another spin with Meryl Streep 3 Stars By © Jane Freebury In shapeless, comfy clothes and floppy grey wig, Meryl Streep is barely recognisable in her latest film,…

Undertow

∼∼ Big on atmosphere, light on plot MA 15+, 95 minutes 3 stars Review by © Jane Freebury The backstory to this atmospheric, moody psychodrama is the dark…

In My Blood It Runs

Difficult questions, no easy answers PG, 90 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In September last year, a 12-year-old Indigenous boy from Alice Springs, Dujuan Hoosan,…

Seberg

M, 103 minutes Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra, Palace Electric Cinema 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the French film that made Jean Seberg famous, she…

Dolittle

PG, 101 minutes Review by Jane Freebury 3 Stars The Dr Dolittle character was first created by a young British engineer while fighting in the trenches in World…

Sorry We Missed You

MA 15+, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by  © Jane Freebury Ken Loach is into his 80s now, still powering on as a firebrand for social justice with…

Ailo’s Journey

G, 86 minutes 3 Stars Review by ©  Jane Freebury It’s often hard to see how creatures born in the wild, just a bundle of knobbly limbs and…

Balloon

Up, up and away to freedom M, 125 minutes 3 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is the story of two young families, the Strelzyks and the…

Ophelia

Rated M, 1 hr 46 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review © Jane Freebury The true story of Ophelia is a ripe, juicy…

All is True

M, 1 hr 41 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is Shakespeare as you have never seen him…

Top End Wedding

M, 1 hr 53 mins All Canberra cinemas 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Everything was good to go and to go well. He had proposed…

Swimming with Men

M, 1 hr 37 mins All cinemas Review by © Jane Freebury 3 Stars Angst and how to lose it. Swimming with Men is pool immersion therapy that…

The Mule

Rated M, 1 hr 57 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Capitol Cinema Manuka, Hoyts Woden and Belconnen, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury  …

Vice

M, 2 hrs 13 mins All cinemas Review by © Jane Freebury 3 stars   Controversial and reviled, American politician Dick Cheney is fair game for filmmaker Adam…