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David Kettle

David Kettle's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Possum (2018) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Flawed but skin-crawling feature from Matthew Holness.” – The Arts Desk Oct 25, 2018 Full Review Donkeyote (2017) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Poignant documentary examining determination, resilience and the inevitability of ageing.” – The Arts Desk Oct 23, 2018 Full Review Science Fair (2018) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Engaging but somewhat slight doc on the world's biggest youth science contest.” – The Arts Desk Oct 19, 2018 Full Review Postcards From the 48 Percent (2018) 3/5 EDIT “Wilkinson has taken an unashamedly partisan stance, and maintains a calm, vicarly presence throughout his film.” – The Arts Desk Jul 9, 2018 Full Review Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016) 91% 3/5 EDIT “In true Reithian fashion, there's plenty here to inform, educate and entertain” – The Arts Desk Apr 9, 2018 Full Review The Islands and the Whales (2016) 100% 5/5 EDIT “A film that paints an uncompromisingly complex, contradictory picture of ancient traditions struggling for survival amid the dangers of the modern world, without ever jumping to hasty judgement.” – The Arts Desk Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Scott and Sid (2021) 60% 1/5 EDIT “No doubt all these things did actually happen in Elliott and Sadowskyj's real lives, but unexplained and unexamined in the context of the movie, they simply fail to convince.” – The Arts Desk Mar 8, 2018 Full Review Love, Cecil (2017) 83% EDIT “Love Cecil isn't just a celebration of Beaton's seemingly miraculous achievements - despite his apparently endless portraits of everyone from Gertrude Stein to Daphne du Maurier.” – The Arts Desk Dec 1, 2017 Full Review Misery Loves Comedy (2015) 35% 2/5 EDIT “Pollak only gets round to misery right at the end, in a quick-fire sequence of comedians either agreeing or disagreeing that you have to be miserable to be funny. By then, though, you'll probably have stopped caring.” – The Arts Desk Nov 21, 2017 Full Review Just Jim (2015) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Some of it sticks; some of it doesn't. But there's a huge amount to admire in Roberts' sheer cinematic exuberance, with a determinedly non-naturalistic perspective.” – The Arts Desk Nov 21, 2017 Full Review The Reagan Show (2017) 80% 3/5 EDIT “If it's hardly a novel perspective on the US presidency, it's nonetheless a compelling one, and one that's especially timely in today's brutal political wars across an ever more complex media and online landscape.” – The Arts Desk Oct 5, 2017 Full Review Moon Dogs (2016) 57% 4/5 EDIT “There's plenty that's downright preposterous, but it's a joy of a movie -- honest, funny and genuinely touching.” – The Arts Desk Aug 31, 2017 Full Review David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) 90% 4/5 EDIT “It feels spontaneous, off-the-cuff, but by the end it's clear that this is a clearly structured, tightly argued tale.” – The Arts Desk Jul 21, 2017 Full Review City of Ghosts (2017) 98% 4/5 EDIT “City of Ghosts is every bit as devastating in its content as you might expect. But the real strength of Heineman's film lies in its restraint.” – The Arts Desk Jul 21, 2017 Full Review City of Tiny Lights (2016) 61% 4/5 EDIT “Slickly paced by Travis -- despite a brief dead patch in the middle -- it's an entertaining, thought-provoking ride nonetheless, and one that maintains its sense of humour despite its seedy subject matter.” – The Arts Desk Apr 7, 2017 Full Review Zero Days (2016) 90% 5/5 EDIT “It's a dense, demanding film, but Gibney's Zero Days is an urgent warning, and an exceptional investigative documentary.” – The Arts Desk Jan 6, 2017 Full Review The Eagle Huntress (2016) 94% 3/5 EDIT “There's the unavoidable feeling by the end that reality has failed to deliver on Bell's girl-against-the-world storyline.” – The Arts Desk Dec 15, 2016 Full Review Scottish Mussel (2016) 17% 1/5 EDIT “With its broad, scattergun humour, lazy characterisation and inept plot and dialogue (not to mention its patronising, metropolitan view of "wild" Scotland), Scottish Mussel should have stayed firmly locked in its shell.” – The Arts Desk Sep 23, 2016 Full Review Slash (2016) 92% EDIT “An engagingly deviant spin on coming-of-age movies.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review Brahman Naman (2016) 70% EDIT “It's about as much fun as it can be watching a gaggle of undergrads getting drunk again and again and again.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review The White King (2016) 73% EDIT “Fascinating and unsettling.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review Gary Numan: Android in La La Land (2016) 80% EDIT “It's stylish, cleanly structured and pacey, but in the end it feels more like a fan doc than an objective appraisal.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review Under the Sun (2015) 94% EDIT “Far from a political condemnation, it's a profoundly human expose of life under terror and deception.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review The Love Witch (2016) 95% EDIT “If only for the staggering, Rachel Maclean-like alternative reality that Biller creates, The Love Witch is a transgressive joy from start to finish.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review The Lure (2015) 89% EDIT “This is a real treat -- even if it's often unfathomable.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2016 Full Review
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