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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…