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M, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Wondering what else he might get out of life as retirement approached, a crane operator in the…
MA 15+, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Claustrophobia in a sleeper compartment on a long train journey has a tension all its own…
M, 126 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This lovingly curated documentary on the celebrity American author and social satirist, Kurt Vonnegut, had a long gestation….
PG, 127 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Asghar Farhadi will never now go unnoticed. Not since he won…
M, 130 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Why are we watching Top Gun: Maverick today? To see why Joe Biden got hooked on aviator…
M, 122 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s a birthday party, Italian style, with an 18-year-old basking in all the love and attention as family…
PG, 81 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury As personal as it is, this new documentary is likely to be a revelation for many. It…
M, 121 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury On the face of it, an anthology or portmanteau movie can look like it has plenty going for…
M, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Nic Cage playing Nick Cage in this toey new Hollywood number plays along with the persona that…
4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The long list of credits for this intimate, handsomely crafted documentary looks like a who’s who for the local film industry….
M, 111 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Since Wikileaks, the organization he founded, sensationally uploaded hundreds of thousands of files of classified information…
MA 15+, 82 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s going to be a challenge for the rest of us when a filmmaker says he…
M, 113 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Ask any writer. Who wouldn’t love to spend weeks on end at work at a writer’s…
M, 84 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This simple and effectively titled film is drawn from events in a small village in rural eastern Europe….
M, 110 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The modest but impressive oeuvre of American filmmaker Mike Mills often handles…
M, 123 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There is a moment in the latest richly textured melodrama from writer-director, Pedro Almodovar, when its…
It’s fascinating to see how countries that were enemies during world wars last century, countries like the US and Japan, Britain and Germany, were closely linked on certain levels beforehand. It makes you think
M, 79 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It may not be the right year, or the real chef, or the exact historical moment when public…
MA15+, 128 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The worst person in the world is not as bad as it sounds, just…
MA 15+, 130 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury How absurd life looks through the eyes of an adolescent. Weird, grotesque, enticing, deadly. If only…