Memoria (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Memoria, the latest film from Palme d’Or prize-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is a fresh and worthy instalment in the rich history of sensory, slow cinema.
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Operation Mincemeat (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
This is based on the true story of an operation in World War 2, which changed the course of the war in Europe and which may be familiar to some film goers, as it was first made into a movie in 1956 under the title The Man Who Never Was.
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Parallel Mothers (15) |Close-Up Film Review
The parallel mothers of the title are two single women who find themselves accidentally pregnant and who meet when they share a room in the maternity hospital.
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Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Your Mum and Dad is a documentary film combining multiple personal stories of intergenerational trauma, woven together with spectral-like archive footage.
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King Richard (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
The “King Richard” of the title is not one of the three English monarchs of that name but refers to American Richard Williams, father of tennis stars Venus and Serena. The film is the story of how his iron will and rigorous discipline turned his daughters into world class champions.
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Spencer (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Spencer imagines what might have happened during the final few days of the marriage of Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) and Diana (Kristen Stewart). It is set during the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk in the early 1990s.
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE is a most entertaining film. It’s not frightening nor very sad just a lot of laughs, some good songs and one outstanding performance. It has been adapted from the super stage musical.
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The Killing of Two Lovers (15) |Close-Up Film Review
A constantly engrossing film that challenges our preconceptions as it thrills along the way.
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Censor (15) |Close-Up Film Review
This Brit horror film has a great hook but is spoiled by a hackneyed back story and lack of story development.
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CODA (No cert) | Close-Up Film Review
When placing a child in the family pecking order, “coda” is not, as you, might think, a word to describe a late life baby arriving. It is an acronym standing for Child of Deaf Adults. Which is what teenager Ruby (Emilia Jones) is in the film of that title.
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