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Queen & Slim

Combines style and charisma to make the point MA15+, 132 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars The date at a diner wasn’t going well. She had…

Honeyland

M, 86 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A wild and rugged landscape, a cast of thousands of airborne extras and their solitary beekeeper feature in…

Motherless Brooklyn

Pet project made with a free hand M, 144 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Edward Norton has had a lot of time to think this…

Emma

PG, 125 minutes All Canberra cinemas 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Emma Woodhouse, created by the 19th century novelist Jane Austen, is blessed with beauty, intelligence…

Just Mercy

M, 137 Minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It took more courage than many of us would have thought necessary 30 years ago to leave home…

1917

MA 15+, 119 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For whatever reasons, World War I doesn’t figure nearly as much as World War II on the…

The Truth

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…

The Two Popes: a mixed blessing

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…

Suzi Q: rock’n’roll pioneer in a leather catsuit

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…

The Report: a record too hot to handle

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…

Blinded by the Light

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,…

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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….

Never Look Away

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…

Woman at War

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…

Sometimes Always Never

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…

Capernaum

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…

The Children Act

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…

Ladies in Black

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…

The Insult

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…

Summer 1993

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…