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The Taste of Things

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…

The Zone of Interest

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…

Anatomy of a Fall

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…

The New Boy

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…

EO

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…

Triangle of Sadness

  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…

She Said

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…

Decision to Leave

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,…

Lost Illusions

  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…

Elvis

  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…

The Duke

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,…

Drive My Car

    MA 15+, 179 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Not without good reason, they say the short story is a perfect foundation for…

Limbo

  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…

The Power of the Dog

  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,…

Annette

  MA 15+, 139 minutes 5 Stars In limited cinema release, and due to stream on Prime       Review by © Jane Freebury Every ten years…

First Ladies

PG & M, 6 x 40-minute episodes 5 Stars Streaming, SBS On Demand     Review by © Jane Freebury   A mixed-race guy, brought up in Hawaii,…

Collective

MA15+, 109 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury         A fire that swept through a nightclub in Bucharest killed dozens of young people…

High Ground

MA15+, 105 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury High Ground has been a long time in the making. Twenty years, the filmmakers say. People like David…

Brazen Hussies

M, 93 minutes 5 Stars Review by ©  Jane Freebury     Brilliantly put together, this important doco tells a story about social justice for women that’s a…

The Trial of the Chicago 7

MA15+, 129 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is a wildly ambitious film, compact and fast-paced over two hours. If wordy and a touch self-important,…