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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….