The Marbles (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Director David Wilkinson’s wide ranging documentary is unashamedly partisan.
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The Marbles (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The Choral (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This film is reassuringly English in concept, with a production team that’s rather like a meeting up of old friends, who’ve collaborated so successfully in the past.
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Bugonia (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Anyone who is concerned about the conservation of the planet will realise the importance of saving the bees from threatened destruction.
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Relay (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The ever busy Riz Ahmed is on screen for most of the time – but doesn’t say a word until some considerable way into the film.
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Iron Ladies (15) |Close-Up Film Review
It’s very strange to have a documentary set in a period that I remember and concerning events that I, although on the periphery, took part in.
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Regretting You (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The story opens with friends Morgan (Allison Williams) and Jonah (Dave Franco) chatting at a teenage beach party.
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Sunlight (PG) |Close-Up Film Review
As well as co-writing and starring, Sunlight is Nina Conti’s directorial debut.
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Roofman (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Inspired by the almost too wild to be true story of Jeffrey Manchester, a former soldier who famously lived undetected above a Toys-R-Us store while pulling off a string of ridiculously bizarre robberies.
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Frankenstein (15) |Close-Up Film Review
For fans of director Guillermo del Toro it will be no surprise that this most visual of storyteller’s new version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story looks magnificent.
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Tron: Ares (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Tron Ares dives much deeper and harder into the technology, identity and connection of the characters than previous films.
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