The Courier (12) |Close-Up Film Review
Tom O’Connor’s screenplay for this, inspired by a true story, is a cracking tale and considerably more enthralling than his Hitman’s Bodyguard comedies.
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Author: Carol Allen
The Courier (12) |Close-Up Film Review
CODA (No cert) | Close-Up Film Review
When placing a child in the family pecking order, “coda” is not, as you, might think, a word to describe a late life baby arriving. It is an acronym standing for Child of Deaf Adults. Which is what teenager Ruby (Emilia Jones) is in the film of that title.
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Wildland (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The storyline of this highly effective and disturbing first feature film from Danish director Jeanette Nordahl could have become a female version of The Godfather. But Nordal has created something more low key and disturbing.
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The Last Letter From Your Lover (12A) Close-Up Film Review
In many ways this is like watching two films wrapped in one package.
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (15) |Close-Up Film Review
“The most beautiful Boy in the world” was how film director Luchino Visconti chose to describe 15 year old Björn Andrésen, when, after a Europe wide search, the director finally arrived in Sweden, where he found his ideal casting.
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Old (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Back in 1999 director M. Night Shyamalan made a brilliant movie called The Sixth Sense in which Bruce Willis played a child psychiatrist treating a small boy who could “see dead people”. I’ve been hoping for him to come up with something as good ever since. Old is not it.
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Two of Us (12) |Close-Up Film Review
Good film roles for older women tend to be few and far between, particularly ones showing them as sexual beings in love but here we have two such characters in Filippo Meneghetti’s lesbian love story about female pensioners in their seventies.
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Deerskin (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Deerskin is a bizarre offering from French director Quentin Dupieux about a man obsessed with his deerskin jacket.
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Freaky (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Initially this must have seemed like a really good idea for a horror cum comedy film. A serial killer and a high school teenage girl, who swap bodies, particularly when they got skilled comedy actor Vince Vaughn on board to play the lead.
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Supernova (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This is a love story about two men who have been together for twenty years. But their love is being tested by the fact that fifty something Tusker (Stanley Tucci) has developed young-onset dementia and his partner Sam (Colin Firth) has had to abandon his career as a concert pianist to look after him.
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