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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

M, 139 minutes 4 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury When the world’s greatest detective turns up as a house guest on a private Greek island,…

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the closing scenes of this impressive, entertaining documentary on Black American cinema, the figure of actor-director Sidney…

The Velvet Queen

M, 92 minutes 4 Stars   Review by ©  Jane Freebury A quest for a rare and beautiful creature in one of the most remote locations on earth…

The Wonder

M, 112 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Every fiction feature is an invitation to believe. If it’s the promise of raw experience or of…

The Woman King

M, 135 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set against a dark backstory, this exhilarating tale of Amazon women, brimming with female energy, has more going…

Moonage Daydream

M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury     A sprawling, rhapsodic, kaleidoscopic experience Over his long career, the mercurial rock god, David Bowie, made…

The Phantom of the Open

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…

Compartment No 6

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…

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

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….

A Hero

    PG, 127 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Asghar Farhadi will never now go unnoticed. Not since he won…

Top Gun: Maverick

  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…

A Chiara

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…

Ablaze

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…

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

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…

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  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…

When the Camera Stopped Rolling

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….

Ithaka

  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…

Friends and Strangers

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…

Bergman Island

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…

Hive

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….