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  MA 15+, 1 hour 59 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A power struggle at the top. Deadly…

Cold War

Rated M, 1 hr 28 mins Review by © Jane Freebury 4.5 Stars This story of the longing and desire of lovers who could no more live together…

First Man

Rated M, 2 hrs 21 mins All Canberra cinemas Review by © Jane Freebury 4.5 Stars   The final frontier gets rather mixed treatment from Hollywood. The studios…

See You Up There

Review by © Jane Freebury A sensitive young soldier, an artist in civilian life, is wounded at the front during the final hours of war. It is a…

The Death of Stalin

Review by © Jane Freebury Rated MA15+, 1 hour 47 minutes 4.5 Stars With not much to do one evening, the staff at Radio Moscow only have to…

The Shape of Water

review by © jane freebury Guillermo del Toro had the actor Sally Hawkins in mind for this sensuous dark fantasy from the beginning. Once, when he bumped into…

The Florida Project

Review by © Jane Freebury It’s summer holidays in Orlando, Florida. Disney World is just over the road, and out of reach. What is there to do when…

Dunkirk

Review © by Jane Freebury With films about perception, memory, and fluctuating identity, Christopher Nolan has carved out a very particular space for himself on the big screen….

Things to Come

                          Review by © Jane Freebury The future? Impossible to predict, we know that at least. There’s no way to escape it. And now  something they call disruption…

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       My Cousin Rachel Handsome, lush, gorgeous to look at and not nearly as over the top as the trailer suggests. Romantic obsession has been plausibly updated,…

Lion

Review by © Jane Freebury A little boy lost with no way home. As he wanders through throngs of strangers in the streets of Kolkata, several things can…

La La Land

Review by © Jane Freebury   Why this? Why now? A singing-dancing entertainment brimming with optimism to close a tough, unruly year and open a new one that…

Goldstone

Review by © Jane Freebury   In the space of the three years since we saw Mystery Road, detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) has buckled a bit under…

Youth

  Review by © Jane Freebury Either you have it or you don’t. And is there nothing in between? Poised at the age of 45, the Italian director…

Far from Men

Review © Jane Freebury Far from men but not entirely without company, a teacher lives and works alone at an isolated school. There are children, girls and boys…

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Review by Jane Freebury ‘Who wouldn’t want to be a lobby boy at the Grand Budapest? It’s an institution.’ The answer that nails it for the new lobby…

Le Week-End

Review by Jane Freebury It’s some time into this remarkable film about a lived-in relationship that we actually find out what the couple who’ve been married for ever…

The Past

Review by Jane Freebury Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has a gift for offering an apparently simple premise only to tease it apart, strand by strand, and reveal it…

Stories We Tell

Review by © Jane Freebury Former child actor Sarah Polley made her fiction feature debut with distinction in 2006 when she directed Julie Christie as a woman with…

The Kid with a Bike

Review by © Jane Freebury Any kid with a bike is a kid who understands what it’s like to feel free. The kid in this fine film, a…