Sam Davies
Sam Davies's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer. This is not a
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Movie Reviews Only
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| 100% | Junun (2015) |
Junun treats each piece with the respect it's due: takes are shown from start to finish, and their closing cadences allowed to hang for a moment in the air.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2015
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| 83% | The Walk (2015) |
It's hard in the end to think of a single aspect of Petit's feat that is better served by Zemeckis's treatment than Marsh's [in Man on Wire].‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Oct 13, 2015
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| 75% | Bjork: Biophilia Live (2014) |
To adapt a very old quotation, Biophilia Live asserts that nothing human is foreign to nature.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Oct 23, 2014
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| 57% | Finding Fela! (2014) |
Finding Fela fully earns its two-hour running time, and could easily have sustained more, such is the wealth of material and music, and such is the brisk momentum maintained by Gibney and editor Lindy Jankura.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2014
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| 84% | Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
Berberian Sound Studio refuses such a climax: it at once celebrates giallo and takes it apart, disassembling it like Derren Brown explaining an illusion.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Dec 31, 2013
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| 97% | GasLand (2010) |
With a remorselessness all the more powerful for its quiet unfussiness, Fox builds up a riveting portrait of near-apocalyptic environmental damage and a corporate mindset willing to ruin water sources irrevocably for the sake of a few years' profit.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Jan 18, 2011
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