Clouds of Sils Maria (15) | Close-Up Film Review

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Clouds of Sils Maria (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Colin Dibben May 16, 2015

Juliette Binoche is electrifying to watch in Olivier Assayas’ latest feature; playing somebody who is not too...

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Armageddon Time  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

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Armageddon Time  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen November 18, 2022

In Armageddon Time writer/director James Gray is revisiting his own childhood in 1980, which he describes as “a pivotal...

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China O’Brien 1&2 (18) |Home Ents Review

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China O’Brien 1&2 (18) |Home Ents Review

Colin Dibben April 28, 2024

Interesting but pretty lame vehicles for the great Cynthia Rothrock, directed cheap and fast by Robert Clouse...

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Firebrand  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

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Firebrand  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen September 7, 2024

Despite being a handsome costume drama, rather than going in for swashbuckling action,  Firebrand is concerned with the more...

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Regretting You (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

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Regretting You (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen October 23, 2025

The story opens with friends Morgan (Allison Williams) and Jonah (Dave Franco) chatting at a teenage beach...

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Black Adam (12A)|Home Ents Review

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Black Adam (12A)|Home Ents Review

Carol Allen January 9, 2023

The comic book super heroes are a particularly American form of popular culture, now loved world wide...

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Doctor Jekyll  (15) |Home Ents Review

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Doctor Jekyll  (15) |Home Ents Review

Kristen Platt March 14, 2024

Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this...

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Heretic (15) |Close-Up Film Review

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Heretic (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen November 3, 2024

My sympathies in this film I’m afraid are with Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) in the title role...

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Silent Night (15) |Close-Up Film Review

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Silent Night (15) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen December 2, 2021

At first this seems to be one of those films about a Christmas reunion of well-heeled and...

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Hilma  (12A) |Close-up Film Review

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Hilma  (12A) |Close-up Film Review

cf-webmaster1964 October 29, 2022

Lasse Hallström’s biopic of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint will provide an introduction for many people to...

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