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Review by © Jane Freebury It’s just as well this 12-year-old is a fast learner. For a boy who could be headed for institutional care after his mother,…
Review by © Jane Freebury So, being tall, willowy and perfectly proportioned, with lustrous hair and perfect skin is not always the distinct advantage you might think it…
Review by © Jane Freebury In this romantic crime caper, Margot Robbie and Will Smith are well cast as a glamorous pair of grifters, Jess and Nicky, who…
Review by © Jane Freebury So, after weeks of pre-release sales, it’s here at last, the film of the international best-selling novel translated into more than 50 languages….
Review by © Jane Freebury An upper-class twit played by Johnny Depp? Why not. As Lord Mortdecai, mortgaged to the hilt to maintain his magnificent pile in the…
Review by © Jane Freebury Wild opens at the top of a rocky outcrop in stunning mountain wilderness. If the lone hiker who has earned herself the view…
Review by © Jane Freebury One of the ironies of this WWII film whose director’s name precedes it, is that the young American airman at the centre of…
Review by Jane Freebury Of all the times in an artist’s life to choose from, director Mike Leigh has chosen to portray the great English landscape painter J.M.W….
Review by Jane Freebury For the second time this year, a blockbuster about the miraculous deeds of a man ‘chosen by god’ has arrived on screen, courtesy of…
Review by Jane Freebury The story of a teenage girl fighting to save the world as we no longer know it, instead of worrying which of the handsome…
Review by Jane Freebury A smoothly crafted tale of minor redemption that gives James Gandolfini his final bow, has a British and a Swedish actor in the lead…
Review by Jane Freebury This big-hearted sprawling movie shuttles between a grungy gay and lesbian bookshop in inner London and a mining village nestled in the rolling green…
Review by Jane Freebury In bringing the popular novel by Richard C Morais to the screen, Swedish director Lasse Hallström and the enthusiastic producers of The Hundred-Foot Journey…
Review by Jane Freebury The hauteur that goes with Keira Knightley’s cheekbones in some signature roles has vanished in this fresh and engaging human drama set in the…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s a tough ask, separating our response to the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in A Most Wanted Man from the knowledge that this classy…
Review by Jane Freebury To begin with, there’s a taste of Paris as we track down a boulevard, between rows of wintry trees. We turn off at a…
Review by Jane Freebury Movie evergreen Clint Eastwood has recently been showing us other sides to himself besides the swaggering cowboy in buckskins that made him famous. The…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s such a short, no-nonsense name for a complete eccentric and it belies the weirdness and whimsy of his story, but what other shorthand…
Review by Jane Freebury As a vision of a lawless future, David Michôd’s eagerly anticipated new film is about as good as it gets. Set 10 years after…
Review by Jane Freebury This solemn, spare and beautiful personal journey begins in a house of silence, a convent, where a young woman is preparing herself for the…