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Amarsanaa Battulga

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Amarsanaa Battulga is a Mongolian freelance film critic, FIPRESCI member, and PhD student based in Nanjing, China. His writing has appeared in Cineuropa, Die Welt, Documentary Magazine, Mekong Review, photogénie, Talking Shorts, and more.

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Hero (2022) “For this pandemic-themed omnibus, three of the most acclaimed female directors of Sinophone cinema...team up to make the worst film of their career.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Streetwise (2021) 100% “[This] low-key crime drama is an example of an "arthouse genre" film whose artistry prevails over its narrative.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Table for Six (2022) “The story drags in some places...but on the whole, Table for Six proves a charming brew of wit, originality, and local flavor.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Home Coming (2022) “With its relative subtlety and lack of forced sentimentality, Home Coming proves more watchable than other less thinly-veiled propaganda blockbusters such as Wolf Warrior 2. One only wishes its politics didn’t get in the way of its potential success.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review The Old Town Girls (2020) 83% “Aside from a plot pulled straight from the newspapers, there is a more poignant subtext to the script: how dysfunctional families survive in decaying industrial cities.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Hidden Blade (2023) 67% “In terms of plotting and scene-setting, Cheng repeats himself a bit too much, and not for the better.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Eat Bitter (2023) “Co-directors Sun Ningyi and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy offer a depoliticized, if at times dismissive, look into the lives of a Chinese construction manager and a Central African laborer.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Born to Fly (2023) 54% “Caught between a bare-bones script, bland visuals, and bellicose nationalism, the story of China’s elite test pilots is destined to crash and burn.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Love Is a Gun (2023) “With Love Is a Gun...[Lee Hong-Chi] proves himself...a promising filmmaker with a mature vision.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review The Breaking Ice (2023) 91% “While all three of his previous features deal with outsiders or foreigners, this time Chen himself has become a stranger to the place and the people in his China-set story.” – The China Project Oct 22, 2024 Full Review 1489 (2023) “1489’s sincerity lies not just in what is shown, but also how the film goes about showing it.” – Klassiki Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 97% 4/5 “Jia Zhangke at his most experimental and romantic.” – easternKicks.com Oct 16, 2024 Full Review Through Rocks and Clouds (2024) 38% “While its story is important and intentions well-meaning, its execution falls short of reaching the same level.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Smugglers (2023) 88% 2/5 “With a running time of 129 minutes, Smugglers could have easily worked well as an ensemble film, had these supporting roles not been written so thinly.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review If Only I Could Hibernate (2023) 100% 4/5 “Zoljargal’s If Only I Could Hibernate is a candid social drama with a local focus, a universal appeal, and a lot of heart.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Return to Seoul (2022) 97% 5/5 “Return to Seoul is an irresistible work that one is likely to return to again and again.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Alienoid (2022) 86% “The road is bumpy at times but it helps that Choi effortlessly maintains a light tone throughout and stacks a star-studded cast that anchors the story that, to say the least, romps around.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review World War III (2022) 100% 5/5 “Bound to surprise audiences and bag awards, World War III is a film that makes you look forward to the next film that rhymes, if not repeats, its brilliance.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Perhaps Love (2021) 3/5 “This emotionally honest, amusing screwball comedy offers us different angles on what love is and what it can be, more in line with the Greek differentiations of the concept.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Kingmaker (2022) 4/5 “Kingmaker is a story of crushed idealism but of a slightly different, nuanced kind.” – View of the Arts Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Snow Leopard (2023) 70% “With Pema Tseden’s subdued storytelling, the film’s social allegory of this human-animal relationship takes full shape in the final act.” – easternKicks.com Aug 1, 2024 Full Review The Sales Girl (2022) 100% “The Sales Girl is one of the better films to come out of Mongolia in recent years, but it is more likely to meet more favourable views abroad.” – easternKicks.com Aug 1, 2024 Full Review One and Four (2021) 4/5 “One and Four proves to be an impressive debut that is at the same time a savvy audition piece.” – easternKicks.com Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Septet : The Story of Hong Kong (2021) “Septet: The Story of Hong Kong feels like family: they leave a few things to be desired, but you nonetheless love them and are glad to have (had) them.” – easternKicks.com Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Nice View (2022) 3/5 “Whether the story gets stuck in your craw depends on how much you buy into its message of stern optimism, resilience, and success against all the odds.” – easternKicks.com Aug 1, 2024 Full Review
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