Good Time (15) | Close-Up Film Review
This Robert Pattiinson vehicle drives at a hectic pace swerving in and out of danger as a bank heist falters and a trail of destruction follows.
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Marjorie Prime (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
This adaptation of the clever four-handed play by Jordan Harrison will leave you reflecting and wondering for days. It is a contemplation on the nature of memory in a world where the recently deceased can be resurrected as AI holograms.
Read MorePerfect Blue (18) | Close-Up Film Review
As a Halloween anniversary special, our friends at Anime Ltd. are rescreening Satoshi Kon’s debut Perfect Blue after 20 years. The hyperreal anime deals with subjects usually reserved for live action. Kon utilises the added possibilities of animation for fantastical and visually complex sequences that blur time, memory and a sense of self to deeply challenge the viewer.
Read MoreClose Encounters of the Third Kind (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
This special 40th anniversary 4K director’s cut opens with testimony from Spielberg himself and those influenced by the Jaws maestro such as Denis Villeneuve.
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American Made (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
If you believe that Tom Cruise is Sandi Toksvig masquerading as one of the most famous film stars in the world – it’s not the most ludicrous thing you’ll see that day if you watch American Made after you’ve laughed at the meme.
Read MoreAll Eyez On Me (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Taken from the title of Tupac Shakur’s fourth studio album, All Eyez On Me is a missed opportunity to get under the skin of one of the world’s more complex cult figures. 20 years on from his untimely death, it’s hard to see what is being attempted here.
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Whitney: Can I Be Me (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Unparalleled access to footage from Whitney Houston’s 1999 World Tour and contemporary interviews with those who were closest to her gives this documentary extraordinary insight into the pressures that pushed the singer to a tragic early death five years ago.
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My Life As A Courgette (PG)| Close-Up Film Review
Celine Sciamma (director of Tomboy and Girlhood) adapts this Gilles Paris novel to create a beautifully poised and textured little stop-motion animation about an orphaned French child called Courgette.
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The Handmaiden (18) | Close-Up Film
South Korean director Park Chan-Wook film is “inspired by” Sarah Waters; novel Fingersmith. ‘Inspiration’ is the watchword here as he transports Dickensian London into 1930s Korea.
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Free Fire (15) | Close-Up Film Review
A warehouse full of armed criminals, a gun deal involving the wrong goods and some personal grudges. What could possibly go wrong?
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