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PG, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This delicate, relatable family drama with a mother-daughter relationship at its core is set in the warm tones…
M, 126 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s an irresistible pleasure watching veteran actors Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce together on screen as Pope Benedict…
M, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the bad old days, rock stars were by definition blokes and a bit of poor behaviour went…
M, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The missing middle word in the title of this strenuous and thoughtful film is torture. The inconvenient truth…
PG, 1 hr 57 mins All Canberra cinemas 4 Stars Life was all mapped out. Young Javed would become an accountant, an estate agent, or even a lawyer,…
Cinemas everywhere 4 Stars Review @ Jane Freebury It’s the start of another California day where careers are made, lost, or peter away under a peerless blue sky….
Rated M, 3 hrs 9 mins Dendy Cinema Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It isn’t possible to look away from…
M, 1 hr 41 mins Dendy Canberra Centre Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Of the various women warriors on the big screen this week, Woman at…
PG, 1 hr 27 mins 4 Stars Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton Reviewed by © Jane Freebury Words, words, words are at the heart of the…
M, 2 hours, subtitled Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4 Stars Review © Jane Freebury Set in contemporary Lebanon, Capernaum takes its name from a town…
M, 105 mins Palace Electric New Acton Review by © Jane Freebury 4 stars A good story about a moral dilemma is hard to beat. The English novelist…
Review © Jane Freebury Rated PG, I hr 49 mins All cinemas Like many girls in generations past, Lisa takes a job in retail while she waits…
Review by © Jane Freebury Screening at Palace Electric Rated M, subtitled 4.5 Stars The Insult begins with a petty altercation over a drainpipe that escalates…
Review © Jane Freebury PG, Subtitled Screening at Palace Electric 4 Stars Without fanfare or introduction, a little girl wanders from room to room, looking dazed as…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a familiar face in the background in Back to Burgundy (Ce Qui Nous Lie). An actor often seen in French films, but…
Reviewed by © Jane Freebury A few days before Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu passed away last year at the age of 46, he agreed to the release of this…
Review by © Jane Freebury As he is portrayed by the Danish actor, Claes Bang, Christian is assured, sensitive and genial. He is the head curator at a…
Review by © Jane Freebury This lovely, low-key, authentic tale of coming-of-age from Greta Gerwig, one of the most talented actresses in US indie cinema, has its own…
Review by © Jane Freebury There are probably plenty of exceptions to the adage that happy endings belong in fairy tales, so it may not be fair to…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a burning intensity to Sweet Country, a tale of revenge in the Australian outback where men turn against each other with guns…