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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One    (12) |Close-Up Film Review
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One    (12) |Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen November 6, 2023
This film has everything an action movie needs.  Plenty of breathtaking action, strong story and characters, star actors...
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Top Gun:  Maverick  (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
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Top Gun:  Maverick  (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen May 29, 2022
The story acknowledges that some three decades have gone by.  Maverick (Cruise) has stayed with the navy, refusing...
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (12A) |Close-Up Film Review
Over thirty years ago, I first encountered Mission: Impossible on my dad’s old VHS player. The grainy quality, the flickering tracking, and that iconic theme tune lit a fuse that’s been burning ever since.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

Matthew Morlai Kamara May 21, 2025
Over thirty years ago, I first encountered Mission: Impossible on my dad’s old VHS player. The grainy...
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Jack Reacher – Never Go Back (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
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Jack Reacher – Never Go Back (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

Carol Allen October 20, 2016
Tom Cruise stars again as Jack Reacher in this action thriller based on another of Lee Child’s...
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