Joker: Folie à Deux (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Joker: Folie à Deux (Two Mad People). Or perhaps Joker in love? Alternatively The trial of Arthur Fleck?
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Joker: Folie à Deux (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Girls Will Be Girls (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Very easy to watch and enjoy, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS, which was a success at the London Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is a new take on the coming-of-age genre.
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The Outrun (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Saoirse Ronan and the really beautiful setting of Scotland’s Orkney Islands co- star in this cinematic version of Amy Liptrot’s memoir about her fight to recover from alcoholism.
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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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My Favourite Cake (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
What a lovely little film! With her husband dead some 30 years, and now aged 70, Mahin (Lili Farhadpour) misses her old life.
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The Substance (18) |Close-Up Film Review
This is a slow burn horror film with serious intent, in that writer/director Coralie Fargeat has in her satirical sights the objectivism of women’s bodies and the idealisation of youthful female beauty in a still largely male dominated society.
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The Goldman Case (Le Procès Goldman) (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This film is the ultimate in courtroom drama, being a meticulously researched recreation of the second trial in 1976 of one Pierre Goldman, played by Arieh Worthalters.
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Lee (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The story of the renowned American war photographer and journalist Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller has finally and finely been made in the UK with Kate Winslet starring as Lee. It is also Winslet who has primarily been moving the film forward over eight years.
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Speak No Evil (15) |Close-Up Film Review
American husband and wife Ben (Scoot McNairy) and Louise (Mackenzie Davis) Dalton are on holiday in Tuscany, where they meet Paddy (James McAvoy) and his wife Ciara (Aisling Franciosi).
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