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M, 92 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Before his world abruptly changes, the young man at the heart of this story set in rural France…
MA 15+, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In these days of everyday celebrity, a French stage actress who was a pioneer in theatre arts…
M, 110 minutes, subtitled 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This gentle, stirring drama is as modest in its scope as it is timely, and based on…
M, 94 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A family lunch in the gardens of a fine house in the French countryside sets the stage in…
M, 98 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Once again, one of England’s best and most popular novelists has a thing or two to answer for….
M, 101 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If the whacky charm and playfulness of a Wes Anderson film is a challenge to folk who prefer…
PG, 75 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This portrait of an English couple who tried for years to maintain an inherited estate as a working…
M, 115 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The tale of a long-distance walk, while not bristling with tension, can hold its own at the movies….
M, 134 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It was a long, hard road for Charles Aznavour, the French-Armenian singer-songwriter who became an international superstar. In…
M, 119 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Seeing a defendant seated in a steel cage in court is an image that is hard to erase….
M, 178 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury When the Three Musketeers films landed back-to-back on screen two years ago, it seemed to confirm that the…
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…
MA 15+, 119 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Living in an inner-city squat with a boisterous dad too busy larking around and having fun for…
M, 90 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Tackling the subject of a young widow who stood her ground during the Napoleonic era and helped establish…
MA 15+, 97 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If you catch the opening credits here, a cryptic producer mention ‘from the studio that brought The…
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…
M, 132 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A remake of a silent film released in Germany over a century ago and now a recognised classic…
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…
MA 15+, 137 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury According to myth among the ancient Greeks and Romans, the most beautiful goddess of all was born…
PG, 118 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There’s less hakuna matata on the savannah in the much-loved star-performing Disney franchise this time round. The lion…