Sam Davies

Sam Davies
Sam Davies's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2015
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 13, 2015
76% Bjork: Biophilia Live (2014) To adapt a very old quotation, Biophilia Live asserts that nothing human is foreign to nature. - Sight and Sound EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 23, 2014
59% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2014
85% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 31, 2013
98% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 18, 2011