Conor Bateman
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A German Youth (2015) |
A uniquely compelling look at an oft-simplified time in German history and forces audiences to grapple not only with the shift from protest group to violent organisation but also the means through which we engage with that kind of narrative. - 4:3
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| Posted Nov 15, 2018
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A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot (2017) |
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, an impressive and intimate look at the impact of paramilitary violence in Derry. - 4:3
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| Posted Jun 12, 2018
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All That Passes by Through a Window That Doesn't Open (2017) |
Though not an exacting portrait of labour or regional conflict, All That Passes by Through a Window That Doesn't Open uses its elision of history as an effective prompt. - 4:3
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| Posted Oct 15, 2017
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Yourself and Yours (2016) |
By re-asserting Min-jung's agency throughout, Hong toys with those who accuse him of complacency. Here behavioural response and re-evaluation is felt, rather than studied. - 4:3
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| Posted Aug 30, 2017
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Good Time (2017) |
Good Time plays out like a visually arresting episode of COPS, with a series of unusual crimes and police reports all connected by one man perpetually on the lam. - 4:3
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| Posted Aug 07, 2017
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My Happy Family (2017) |
The sparseness and patience of My Happy Family are integral to its power, matching the inscrutability of Manana herself. - 4:3
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| Posted Jul 24, 2017
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Risk (2016) |
Despite taking a year to recut the film following its Cannes premiere in 2016, it's not apparent Poitras and co-editor Melody London found 'the film' at all. - 4:3
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| Posted Jul 24, 2017
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We Don't Need a Map (2017) |
Levity is an easy takeaway in a documentary that manages to address a broad range of pressing contemporary discussions on race, history and identity. - 4:3
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| Posted Jul 24, 2017
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78/52 (2017) |
What makes the viewing experience of 78/52 so impressively frustrating is the sense that Philippe has no idea whose arguments and analyses are actually worth following. - 4:3
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| Posted Jul 24, 2017
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The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (2016) |
The film, in keeping with Bloom's own condition, is instantly forgettable. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 19, 2017
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Manchester by the Sea (2016) |
Manchester by the Sea isn't concerned with finality or even redemption, rather the mess of life, unmoored from the belief that everything will be okay. - 4:3
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| Posted Feb 01, 2017
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Split (2016) |
It might be outlandish but it's just as limp, and that's the kicker. - 4:3
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| Posted Jan 30, 2017
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The Bandit (2016) |
The Bandit muses on the public perception of stuntmen, the iconography of trucker culture and Hal Needham's failed line of action figurines with equal amounts of fascination. - 4:3
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| Posted Nov 29, 2016
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Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016) |
Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids, despite being Demme's most extravagant performance film, is also a deceptively intimate portrait of a well-oiled musical machine. - 4:3
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| Posted Oct 16, 2016
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The Neon Demon (2016) |
...a simplistic and familiar tale of clashing egos and sexuality that places [Refn's] suffocating visual maximalism front and centre. - 4:3
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| Posted Aug 01, 2016
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For the Plasma (2014) |
Vaguely unclassifiable yet undoubtedly impressive. - 4:3
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| Posted Jul 18, 2016
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The Childhood of a Leader (2015) |
Corbet's swinging for the fences lands visually, moreso than ideologically, by pilfering from Kubrick and Visconti to interesting effect. - 4:3
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| Posted Jun 19, 2016
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A War (2015) |
With A War, Lindholm is once again content working in a sparse visual mode that leaves room for his performers to inject some passion into the film. - 4:3
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| Posted Jun 13, 2016
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Land of Mine (2015) |
In almost every scene, Zandvliet takes the least subtle path of storytelling possible, turning in an overwrought and underdeveloped humanist war drama. - 4:3
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| Posted Jun 13, 2016
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Machine Gun or Typewriter? (2015) |
Machine Gun or Typewriter? is entrancing because of its restlessness, an alternately potent and perplexing work of experimental cinema. - 4:3
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| Posted May 25, 2016
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In Transit (2015) |
Maysles' swansong is moving, unpretentious and wholly endearing, with fingerprints of the restraint and skill of a master documentarian all over it. - 4:3
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| Posted May 17, 2016
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Of Men and War (2014) |
Bcue-Renard shows the Pathway Home not as a means through which to forget wartime experiences, but to engage with the memory of them. - 4:3
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| Posted Apr 22, 2016
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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) |
Not only on a biographical account of Jobs, but also a look at the way in which big business and consumers at large engaged with the mythic personal narrative he fostered. - 4:3
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| Posted Apr 01, 2016
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Sunrise (2014) |
By creating a remove from structural and genre conventions, Sen-Gupta makes Sunrise a disarming, confronting and unique journey to the heart of loss and self-punishment. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 24, 2016
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) |
10 Cloverfield Lane still feels like the spec script it spawned from, trying vainly to pack tense set pieces and striking moments of violence into its simplistic chamber play. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 09, 2016
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Eden (2014) |
An impressive and suprisingly melancholy look at repetition in life, soundtracked by the recursive music of the French Touch scene. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 03, 2016
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Marshland (2014) |
Whilst its broad plot might be a touch too neat, Marshland manages to say quite a lot about entrenched neglect and ignorance both within and without systems of power - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 03, 2016
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The Forbidden Room (2015) |
Whilst The Forbidden Room is overlong and messy, it is still a lightning bolt of creativity from one of the most enigmatic and compelling filmmakers working today. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 03, 2016
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The Lobster (2015) |
A narrative shapeshifter that gleefully toys with its audience's perception of love and themselves. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 03, 2016
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Victoria (2015) |
The technical achievement, and paradoxical precision and looseness of the camera, raise the film above its mostly conventional heist narrative. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 03, 2016
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Only the Dead (2015) |
Only The Dead lacks a consistent self-reflexivity, coming across as a hybrid of simplistic narrative account of the war and personal diary. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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The Royal Road (2015) |
The Royal Road eschews temporality; both the film's content and presentation reflect a rejection of digital cultures and a focus on grappling with the real and fictive past. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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City of Gold (2015) |
For some, City of Gold might just seem like an interesting and intimate distraction, but for others, it will appear as a powerful love letter to the art of discovery. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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Office (2015) |
The dense references to financial predicaments and workplace life actively refuse the conventions of a neat and chirpy Westernised musical. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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Junun (2015) |
As a freeing filmic experiment from one of the most interesting filmmakers working today, it's very much worth the hour-long commitment. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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The Hateful Eight (2015) |
The Hateful Eight sees Tarantino stake a claim as his own most passionate auteurist: the film is a melting chamber-pot of self-referentiality and re-creation. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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Spotlight (2015) |
The screenplay, by [Tom] McCarthy and Josh Singer, is one of the film's greatest strengths, imbued with as much wit as it is sobering truths. - 4:3
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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