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Film round-up: September 4 2015
This week: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Ricki and the Flash, The Transporter Refuelled, American Ultra and Dope

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (12A), directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

4/5

DIVIDED into cheesy chapter headings, there’s nothing twee about this brutally funny and exquisitely written coming-of-age tale about a teenage lad forced to befriend a cancer-stricken classmate.






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