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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,…
M, 95 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The relationship between fathers and sons is closely observed in this low-key family drama set in Northern…
M, 102 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Who could have foreseen that the talented Ivan Sen would set his heart on making a science fiction…
MA 15+, 82 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s going to be a challenge for the rest of us when a filmmaker says he…
M, 113 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Ask any writer. Who wouldn’t love to spend weeks on end at work at a writer’s…
M, 107 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Details of the family life of a titan of modern philosophy may hold…
M, 84 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This simple and effectively titled film is drawn from events in a small village in rural eastern Europe….
M, 110 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The modest but impressive oeuvre of American filmmaker Mike Mills often handles…
MA 15+, 179 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Not without good reason, they say the short story is a perfect foundation for…
R 18+, 131 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The story of a lesbian affair inside a 17th century convent told by the…
M, 101 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Whether or not there’s such a spirited critique to make of the wealthy and highly…
M, 123 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There is a moment in the latest richly textured melodrama from writer-director, Pedro Almodovar, when its…
It’s fascinating to see how countries that were enemies during world wars last century, countries like the US and Japan, Britain and Germany, were closely linked on certain levels beforehand. It makes you think
M, 97 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Two nameless men, a pack of wild dogs and a scorpion make…
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…
As the first Kingsman movie opened eight years ago, the filmmakers were suggesting that it might fill the space that Bond was relinquishing. Maybe then, but not anymore.
M, 79 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It may not be the right year, or the real chef, or the exact historical moment when public…
MA15+, 128 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The worst person in the world is not as bad as it sounds, just…
MA 15+, 130 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury How absurd life looks through the eyes of an adolescent. Weird, grotesque, enticing, deadly. If only…
M, 108 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury If watching The French Dispatch feels like thumbing through an old-style print magazine…