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Io Capitano

MA 15+, 122 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This story out of Africa is drawn from first-person accounts by survivors of the harrowing overland journey…

How To Have Sex

MA 15+, 91 minutes Four Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If a sense of déjà vu begins to develop as the best holiday ever descends into the…

Fallen Leaves

M, 81 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s not yet winter in this new film from Finland, but a chill in the air has you…

Riceboy Sleeps

M, 117 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury After watching this migrant story about leaving Korea behind and building a new life in Canada, I found…

Two Tickets to Greece

M, 111 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Blazing sunlight, deep blue seas, white-washed walls and plenty of space on the beach for everyone to do…

Maestro

M, 129 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It is curious that, after relatively little on screen about the subject, there have in the last year…

Napoleon

MA 15+, 158 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The defiant, scowling figure slouching on the French throne on the flyers that advertise Ridley Scott’s latest…

Paris Memories

M, 103 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It is hardly surprising that filmmaker Alice Winocour felt the need to tell a story connected with the…

Killers of the Flower Moon

M, 206 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The latest movie from living legend, Martin Scorsese, brings together two of the actors that he has made…

Nyad

M, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury While a film about a long-distance swimmer wasn’t a subject that you might expect to hold your interest…

Shayda

M, 118 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury As a woman trying to escape an abusive marriage and start over in a new land, the actress…

Past Lives

M, 106 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury This subtle, understated romantic drama involves three people who we first see having a drink together at…

Asteroid City

M, 105 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury To reassure anyone who may get lost along the way, the new film from Wes Anderson begins with…

Barbie

PG, 114 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Just how does a professional bimbo some say set the feminist movement back 50 years get to be…

Alcarras

M, 120 minutes, subtitled 4 Stars  Review by © Jane Freebury From deep within a farm in Catalonia where peaches grow in abundance, there is little to see…

Other People’s Children

M, 107 minutes, subtitles 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This gentle, relatable relationship drama set in the city of love and romance explores a sadly common…

Reality

M, 83 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The name of the young security contractor at the centre of this tense, meticulously plotted drama comes as…

You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings film review by Jane Freebury

One Fine Morning

MA 15+, 113 minutes, subtitled 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury One fine day, did Mia Hansen-Love wake up with the idea of casting James Bond’s…

Sweet As

Risks to at-risk Indigenous youth are clear yet peripheral in this fresh and assured perspective on life choices in the magnificent, remote North-West