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    BRIAN AND CHARLES TBC

    Jun 24, 2022 2 minutes
    KATE STABLES

    ★★★★☆ OUT 8 JULY CINEMAS

    DIRECTOR Jim Archer STARRING David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie, Nina Sosanya SCREENPLAY David Earl, Chris Hayward DISTRIBUTOR Universal RUNNING TIME 90 mins

    Sentient robots tend to get a bad rap in serious big-screen cinema. Having experienced franchise and the robot revenge of we’re definitely overdue for the scrap-welded sweetness of Charles Petrescu, a defiantly homemade robot hungry to experience everything life has to offer. He’s the standout star of this delightfully weird British comedy, as a clunky companion created out of odds and ends (“My tummy is a washing machine!”) by inept inventor Brian (an engagingly awkward David Earl) and brought to Frankenstein- style life, by a stray bolt of lightning.

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