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The French Dispatch

  M, 108 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury         If watching The French Dispatch feels like thumbing through an old-style print magazine…

Eric Clapton – Lockdown Sessions

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…

Stray

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…

The Rescue

  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…

Passing

              PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars   Review by ©  Jane Freebury Two women with completely different approaches to life, meet by…

The Last Duel

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…

A Fire Inside

M, 92 minutes Four Stars             Review by © Jane Freebury Volunteering in this country is strong. We saw how it boosted the…

Lamb

MA 15+, 106 minutes 4 Stars             Review by © Jane Freebury Without a lot to go on, little things loom large in…

Count Me 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…

Hating Peter Tatchell

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…

Disclosure

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…

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali

MA 15+, 96 minutes 4 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury   The day that he met Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X had no idea…

Worth

M, 118 minutes Netflix 4 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury As a plane flies past in the early scenes of this 9/11 drama,…

The Rose Maker

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…

The Souvenir

MA15+, 119 minutes Netflix 4 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury   This highly accomplished feature is a portrait of the artist as a…

Nine Days

M, 124 minutes 4 Stars       Review by © Jane Freebury   Building new worlds and creating new rules might just be worth contemplating in these…

Black Widow

M, 134 minutes 4 stars           Review by © Jane Freebury Given that Black Widow is the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,…

Perfumes

An irresistible, odd couple comedy of scents and sensibilities      M, 100 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury An odd couple forced to get…

In the Heights

PG, 143 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Joyous, vibrant. There are good grounds for this song and dance extravaganza becoming a hit. What’s not…

My Zoe

M, 102 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The actor and filmmaker, Julie Delpy, has a habit of weaving details of her personal life into her…