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A silent doco observes a world gone mad M, 97 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For obscure reasons, It Must Be Heaven begins during an…
Subtle, taut drama that resonates beyond the family farm M, 86 minutes Streaming on Stan 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is an impressive, subtle drama…
A brilliant, brooding adaptation of Shakespeare on leadership and power MA15+, 140 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Now the streaming platforms are windows on the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…