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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….

C’mon C’mon

M, 110 minutes 4 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury   The modest but impressive oeuvre of American filmmaker Mike Mills often handles…

Parallel Mothers

    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…

Munich – The Edge of War

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

Delicious

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…

The Worst Person in the World

  MA15+, 128 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury       The worst person in the world is not as bad as it sounds, just…

The Hand of God

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…