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  • Close To You (2023)
    Review preview for Close To You

    Rather than watching Sam from a distance, with curiosity, we are very much aligned with him, experiencing the world as he does, noticing the things that don’t make sense about other people.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
  • Love + Hate (2005)
    Review preview for Love + Hate

    Savage is undone by his untrained actors.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    Racial tensions and secret romances in a desolate northern English urban cityscape
  • Out Of Control (2002)
    Review preview for Out Of Control

    It's awful, yet is so well directed and acted that you can't take your eyes off it, no matter how much you want to.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    Gritty drama about boys in borstal.

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