The Taste of Mango (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Director Chloe Abrahams’ The Taste of Mango is an award-winning documentary debut that lingers in the mind and heart.
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Author: Matthew Morlai Kamara
The Taste of Mango (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Your Monster (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This film beautifully weaves elements of Beauty and the Beast with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, delivering a story that is in equal parts magical, emotional, and humorous.
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More from the London Film Festival
More films to look out for from The London Film Festival.
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Red One (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
With Christmas right around the corner—and my gift shopping still in the “to-do” category—I decided to kick off the holiday spirit early with Red One, the new action-packed holiday movie
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Piece By Piece (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Growing up in the 90s, flipping through Word Up! and Black Beat magazines, I was captivated by icons like Ice Cube, Salt-N-Pepa, Missy Elliott, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, and 2Pac.
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The Room Next Door (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The film follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a successful autofiction novelist, and Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war reporter, who reconnect after years of separation.
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Smile 2 (18) |Close-Up Film Review
After the first Smile film left a chilling impression, Smile 2 took me by surprise with its shift into the world of celebrity horror.
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The Wild Robot (U) |Close-Up Film Review
After a shipwreck, Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), a highly intelligent robot, washes ashore on a remote island, surrounded by animals that first view her as an intruder.
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Megalopolis (15) |Close-Up Film Review
As soon as I heard that Laurence Fishburne, the iconic actor who played Morpheus in one of my all-time favourite Sci-Fi films, The Matrix, was in Megalopolis, I was instantly intrigued.
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My Old Ass (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This year’s Sundance London Festival was my first, and I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to independent cinema. Thanks to some great advice from the film community, I added My Old Ass to my must-watch list.
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