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Conor Bateman

Conor Bateman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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A German Youth (2015) 100% EDIT “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 Nov 15, 2018 Full Review A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot (2017) 88% EDIT “A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, an impressive and intimate look at the impact of paramilitary violence in Derry.” – 4:3 Jun 12, 2018 Full Review All That Passes by Through a Window That Doesn't Open (2017) Recommended EDIT “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 Oct 15, 2017 Full Review Yourself and Yours (2016) 94% Recommended EDIT “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 Aug 30, 2017 Full Review Good Time (2017) 91% Recommended EDIT “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 Aug 7, 2017 Full Review My Happy Family (2017) 100% Recommended EDIT “The sparseness and patience of My Happy Family are integral to its power, matching the inscrutability of Manana herself.” – 4:3 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review Risk (2016) 80% Not Recommended EDIT “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 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review We Don't Need a Map (2017) 83% Recommended EDIT “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 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review 78/52 (2017) 88% Not Recommended EDIT “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 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (2016) 56% Not Recommended EDIT “The film, in keeping with Bloom's own condition, is instantly forgettable.” – 4:3 Mar 19, 2017 Full Review Manchester by the Sea (2016) 96% Recommended EDIT “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 Feb 1, 2017 Full Review Split (2017) 79% Not Recommended EDIT “It might be outlandish but it's just as limp, and that's the kicker.” – 4:3 Jan 30, 2017 Full Review The Bandit (2016) 86% Recommended EDIT “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 Nov 29, 2016 Full Review Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016) 100% Recommended EDIT “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 Oct 16, 2016 Full Review The Neon Demon (2016) 59% Not Recommended EDIT “...a simplistic and familiar tale of clashing egos and sexuality that places [Refn's] suffocating visual maximalism front and centre.” – 4:3 Aug 1, 2016 Full Review For the Plasma (2014) 59% Recommended EDIT “Vaguely unclassifiable yet undoubtedly impressive.” – 4:3 Jul 18, 2016 Full Review The Childhood of a Leader (2015) 90% Recommended EDIT “Corbet's swinging for the fences lands visually, moreso than ideologically, by pilfering from Kubrick and Visconti to interesting effect.” – 4:3 Jun 19, 2016 Full Review A War (2015) 90% Recommended EDIT “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 Jun 13, 2016 Full Review Land of Mine (2015) 91% Strongly Not Recommended EDIT “In almost every scene, Zandvliet takes the least subtle path of storytelling possible, turning in an overwrought and underdeveloped humanist war drama.” – 4:3 Jun 13, 2016 Full Review Machine Gun or Typewriter? (2015) Recommended EDIT “Machine Gun or Typewriter? is entrancing because of its restlessness, an alternately potent and perplexing work of experimental cinema.” – 4:3 May 25, 2016 Full Review In Transit (2015) 100% Recommended EDIT “Maysles' swansong is moving, unpretentious and wholly endearing, with fingerprints of the restraint and skill of a master documentarian all over it.” – 4:3 May 17, 2016 Full Review Of Men and War (2014) 100% Recommended EDIT “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 Apr 22, 2016 Full Review Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) 75% Recommended EDIT “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 Apr 1, 2016 Full Review Sunrise (2016) 88% EDIT “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 Mar 24, 2016 Full Review 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) 91% Not Recommended EDIT “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 Mar 9, 2016 Full Review
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