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M, 123 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It is a surprise to see that there are few film versions of the influential and controversial novel,…
MA 15+, 158 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the sugar-cane country of northeast Brazil, a young man driving a yellow VW Beetle pulls in…
M, 135 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Long, long winters in confined spaces have no doubt fostered a tendency in Scandi film and theatre to…
M, 137 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Although not immediately apparent, it’s clear from the start. Clear that for the big, happy family centreframe who…
Review by © Jane Freebury 5 Stars M, 141 minutes Let ‘em leave, I’m not really here. Ever since Bob Dylan landed he has been hard to pin…
MA 15+, 139 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The spoilt son of a Russian oligarch meets an exotic dancer in Brooklyn and buys her time…
PG, 145 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s a waltz around the kitchen as cooks prepare banquets to while away the hours in this quintessentially…
M, 105 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury So much careful and thoughtful prep has gone into this film, told with such restraint, but the impact…
MA 15+, 152 minutes 5 stars Review by © Jane Freebury As they must, it’s the small details that matter on the day a man dies, suddenly and…
M, 116 minutes 5 Stars Review by Jane © Freebury In startling opening scenes, a boy trying to escape from police is felled by a boomerang, bundled into…
MA 15+, 87 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If he has seen and done it all now, the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski who made his…
Harris Dickinson makes light in Triangle of Sadness. Courtesy Sharmill Films M, 147 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If the big name fashion…
M, 129 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s not that long ago now, only five years. Yet it still feels like things have turned…
M, 139 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If the director of this moody, compelling murder mystery was inspired to make movies after watching Vertigo,…
M, 144 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This extravagantly-mounted, lush period drama adapted from the book of the same name by Honore de Balzac…
M, 159 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The King has been gone a while now but that doesn’t mean people don’t feel a…
M, 95 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When a portrait by a Spanish master went missing in 1961 from the National Gallery in London,…
MA 15+, 179 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Not without good reason, they say the short story is a perfect foundation for…
M, 104 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Every now and then, a film comes along that lands its points perfectly, in one fell…
M, 127 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Sensuality laced with violence often features in the films of writer-director Jane Campion whose remarkable career,…