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Alan Bett

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White Shadow (2013) 82% 3/5 EDIT “This is a confrontational but disjointed work, challenging in theme and languid in pace.” – The Skinny Mar 19, 2015 Full Review A Touch of Sin (2013) 95% 5/5 EDIT “This major work is cinematic in scope but loses none of the provocative truth that defines Zhangke's oeuvre.” – The Skinny May 8, 2014 Full Review Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) 50% 3/5 EDIT “Strongly played by all four leads, Half of a Yellow Sun is sumptuous and enjoyable, but there is just too much paint in this story for the canvas provided.” – The Skinny Apr 11, 2014 Full Review Locke (2013) 91% 4/5 EDIT “This does not quite share the subtlety of Beckett (metaphors of hardening concrete footprints are a little too obvious), or the poetry of language, but must be considered a modern equivalent.” – The Skinny Mar 6, 2014 Full Review Salvo (2013) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Visually confident with a notably bare sound design of introspective silences, ticking clocks, a solitary barking dog, it's a film sure of its movement, strolling like a lion.” – The Skinny Feb 27, 2014 Full Review The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013) 51% 3/5 EDIT “It's a confusing and demanding film, at times exhausting; so subjective as to defy simple rating.” – The Skinny Feb 27, 2014 Full Review Of Good Report (2013) 83% 4/5 EDIT “The riffs on Lolita are obvious and well referenced, but where Nabokov provoked in prose, Qubeka uses images and angles, forcing us into an uncomfortable complicity.” – The Skinny Nov 13, 2013 Full Review About Time (2013) 71% 2/5 EDIT “There is no dissection of love or the human condition here, only a syrupy river flowing away from the comedy zeitgeist that's so sweet it should come with a shot of insulin.” – The Skinny Sep 2, 2013 Full Review The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012) 91% 3/5 EDIT “The directors build a melancholy collage of beautiful images, many of which worthy of a gallery wall, in this attempt to untwine both individual and national displaced histories.” – The Skinny Jul 9, 2013 Full Review Mister John (2013) 85% 4/5 EDIT “This is a complex experiment on evolving identity and the need to escape a damaged life.” – The Skinny Jun 27, 2013 Full Review U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013) 63% 3/5 EDIT “This true story ... has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas.” – The Skinny Jun 27, 2013 Full Review National Security (2012) 3/5 EDIT “Picks a subject ingrained in the Korean subconscious while retaining relevance.” – The Skinny Jun 24, 2013 Full Review The Berlin File (2013) 43% 4/5 EDIT “Retrospectively cold war in tone this provides action more brutal than balletic and the promise of a Bourne-style franchise in the making.” – The Skinny Jun 24, 2013 Full Review Shell (2012) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Scott Graham's excellent debut feature is a triumph, a film which troubles the mind for days after viewing.” – The Skinny Feb 27, 2013 Full Review Tower (2012) 83% 2/5 EDIT “An anaemic take on the We Need to Talk About Kevin nature/nurture debate.” – The Skinny Feb 20, 2013 Full Review Our Children (2012) 93% 3/5 EDIT “A film which tackles serious issues that are both intensely personal and widely political, but which fails to offer understanding of subjects which are perhaps simply incomprehensible.” – The Skinny Feb 20, 2013 Full Review The Wee Man (2013) 20% 3/5 EDIT “An undeniably watchable criminal soap opera offering personal redemption.” – The Skinny Jan 17, 2013 Full Review A Simple Life (2011) 94% 4/5 EDIT “eteran Director Ann Hui paints in delicate strokes, but while this may seem soft he is playing with powerful emotions.” – The Skinny Nov 8, 2012 Full Review In Darkness (2011) 88% 4/5 EDIT “What sounds like standard glossy fare is handled with cold candour.” – The Skinny Feb 23, 2012 Full Review Albatross (2011) 54% 3/5 EDIT “A serving of teenage angst with a side order of syrup which, like the films of John Hughes, treats both characters and audience with respect and affection.” – The Skinny Jan 26, 2012 Full Review Blood in the Mobile (2010) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This is a valuable film which needs to be seen and which holds an uneasy truth that makes us all complicit.” – The Skinny Sep 21, 2011 Full Review
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