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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…
M, 108 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury If watching The French Dispatch feels like thumbing through an old-style print magazine…
No rating, 89 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It was never meant to be the way it turned out. Eric Clapton and a combo of…
M, 71 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s a doggie world in Stray. A singular doco about the dogs that live on the streets…
M, 107 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When the junior soccer team and coach who went missing inside a vast underground cave system…
PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Two women with completely different approaches to life, meet by…
MA 15+, 153 minutes 4 Stars Powerful and immersive, despite making a shift away from the usual driven narrative style and embarking into 14th century gender politics…
MA 15+, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Without a lot to go on, little things loom large in…
M, 82 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury As a doco about the overlooked, drummers who were integral to the success of famous rock bands but…
MA 15+, 91 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Peter who? Just in case you aren’t sure you have the right person in…
MA 15+, 85 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This new Australian indie has its reasons for opening with a vigorous sex scene. The sex…
MA 15+, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The day that he met Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X had no idea…
M, 118 minutes Netflix 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury As a plane flies past in the early scenes of this 9/11 drama,…
Despite some twee familiarity at the start, this story about a tough, committed businesswoman becomes a story about youth and second chances M, 95 minutes 4 Stars…