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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

Quant

M, 82 minutes 4 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury  As she says herself in this documentary packed with talking heads and sixties fashion, diva of…

The Survival of Kindness

M, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Rolf de Heer has at last arrived. A drama with a cool, fierce intensity…

Linoleum

M, 102 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury This is one of those movies that turns out to have a lot more to it than…

Till

M, 131 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   This movie about a lynching that galvanised the 1950s American civil rights movement opens on a family…

Aftersun

M, 101 minutes 4 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury This lovely, enigmatic piece about a young father on holiday with his 11-year-old…

Corsage

    M, 144 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When the size of a woman’s waist was something that mattered so much her body was…

Close

M, 104 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In this delicate study of a close friendship in adolescence, two best friends forever with strong and happy…

The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari

PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   One bright, clear December morning several years back, a group of intrepid day-trippers keen to visit…

Margrete: Queen of the North

  MA15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars       Review by © Jane Freebury This political drama from Denmark is about an indomitable female leader prepared to make…