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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,…
MA 15+, 139 minutes 5 Stars In limited cinema release, and due to stream on Prime Review by © Jane Freebury Every ten years…
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,…
MA15+, 109 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A fire that swept through a nightclub in Bucharest killed dozens of young people…
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,…
Pitch-perfect performances all round, a beautifully crafted drama about a teenager’s last fling at life M, 118 Minutes Dendy, Palace Electric 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury…
MA15+, 84 minutes Dendy Canberra Centre 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This documentary is a letter for a little girl who was born during the conflict…
M, 119 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A boat with a young female passenger on board makes its way along a rocky coastline. When…
MA15+, 114 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The actor Antonio Banderas and director Pedro Almodovar first worked together in the 1980s and helped make each…
Rated G, 93 mins Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury There are no talking heads recalling the event…
MA 15+, 2 hrs 15 mins Netflix Review by ©Jane Freebury 5 Stars In all the best possible ways, Roma reminded me of being a film student again….
Review by © Jane Freebury It takes a brave and confident filmmaker to begin with so little information in frame. Leviathan begins with breathless long shot of a…
Review by © Jane Freebury In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, the first two films of what has become an exquisite trilogy, time was of the essence. Money…
M, 150 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s dusk on the Turkish steppe. A crime has been committed. The manacled perpetrator is part of the…
Review by © Jane Freebury It is good to see—if this marvellous film gets it right—that the Australian Lionel Logue had a healthy disregard for the English class…
Review by Jane Freebury In the lead-up to its screening at Cannes, it might seem to sceptical punters that the critics are falling over themselves in praise of…