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This dreamlike journey into the imagination is never predictable. Jun 19, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This dreamlike journey into the imagination is never predictable.
Eve Watling
It is an engrossingly strange, confident leap down the conceptual rabbit hole, and a very accomplished piece of film-making. Jun 16, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It is an engrossingly strange, confident leap down the conceptual rabbit hole, and a very accomplished piece of film-making.
Peter Bradshaw
This Thai drama begins with the testimony of a survivor of the Thammasat massacre of protesting students by the government in 1976, and spirals into something woozy and strange, an investigation of the process of film-making itself. Jun 15, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This Thai drama begins with the testimony of a survivor of the Thammasat massacre of protesting students by the government in 1976, and spirals into something woozy and strange, an investigation of the process of film-making itself.
Kate Muir
The movie is hypnotic to watch and wonder at - even if these filmmaking Thais don't seem to bind and that is work which must be done by their audiences. Jun 15, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The movie is hypnotic to watch and wonder at - even if these filmmaking Thais don't seem to bind and that is work which must be done by their audiences.
Nigel Andrews
"By the Time It Gets Dark" has clearly been thought through, but it's so cryptic that it cries out for, if not perfect explanations, perhaps footnotes. It's so conceptual that it offers little for those not in sync. Apr 13, 2017 | Full Review…
"By the Time It Gets Dark" has clearly been thought through, but it's so cryptic that it cries out for, if not perfect explanations, perhaps footnotes. It's so conceptual that it offers little for those not in sync.
Ben Kenigsberg
You could be forgiven for thinking that while all this is going on, nothing at all seems to happen - it's a film, a rather gorgeous one, of glances and ephemera and delicate metaphors. Apr 12, 2017 | Full Review…
You could be forgiven for thinking that while all this is going on, nothing at all seems to happen - it's a film, a rather gorgeous one, of glances and ephemera and delicate metaphors.
Michael Atkinson
It's an intoxicating cocktail, with bursts of time-travelling song breaking through the underlying thrum of insect life, leading towards a trance-dance finale that left my head spinning. Dec 27, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's an intoxicating cocktail, with bursts of time-travelling song breaking through the underlying thrum of insect life, leading towards a trance-dance finale that left my head spinning.
Mark Kermode
Anocha Suwichakornpong's WTF tone poem of a film casts a bewitching spell, even/especially as it periodically reinvents itself. Intriguing and severely beautiful throughout, even during those moments when it seems like logic has taken a flyer. Dec 27, 2017 | Full Review…
Anocha Suwichakornpong's WTF tone poem of a film casts a bewitching spell, even/especially as it periodically reinvents itself. Intriguing and severely beautiful throughout, even during those moments when it seems like logic has taken a flyer.
Andrew Wright
To call what happens in By the Time It Gets Dark a "plot" is to do it a disservice of sorts, such is the beguilingly self-reflexive nature of Anocha Suwichakornpong's becalmed, trippy, historically conscious fungus of a film. Oct 10, 2017 | Full Review…
To call what happens in By the Time It Gets Dark a "plot" is to do it a disservice of sorts, such is the beguilingly self-reflexive nature of Anocha Suwichakornpong's becalmed, trippy, historically conscious fungus of a film.
Jay Kuehner
By The Time It Gets Dark is a cinematic classic that will beg to be watched, decided and marvelled at, time and time again. Oct 6, 2017 | Full Review…
By The Time It Gets Dark is a cinematic classic that will beg to be watched, decided and marvelled at, time and time again.
Lee Ashworth
History has seldom seemed more challenging. And history on film is a hiding to nothing. Jun 28, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
History has seldom seemed more challenging. And history on film is a hiding to nothing.
Tara Brady
Suwichakornpong confidently defies conventional forms and linearity. She collapses the past into the present as a way to probe the haunted recesses of both national and personal memory. Jun 16, 2017 | Full Review…
Suwichakornpong confidently defies conventional forms and linearity. She collapses the past into the present as a way to probe the haunted recesses of both national and personal memory.
Ben Nicholson
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