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John Berra

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We Girls (2025) “If the lurches into melodrama can be trying and the contrivances hard to buy, We Girls nonetheless provides a compassionate perspective on a marginalised group.” – Screen International Apr 8, 2025 Full Review The Botanist (2025) “A paean to nature which overflows with bucolic imagery but soon runs dry on cohesive narrative, The Botanist nonetheless marks an auspicious debut for writer-director Jing Yi. ” – Screen International Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Living the Land (2025) “Shot from spring to winter to capture the changing seasons, Living The Land’s evocatively earthy palette will help this deeply poignant yet staunchly unsentimental drama find its way to art-house audiences.” – Screen International Feb 15, 2025 Full Review The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (2023) “Unfortunately, frustrating structural issues and an overlong running time hinder a sincere effort to familiarise a wide audience with the dramatic events and multi-generational trauma of a harrowing wartime incident. ” – Screen International Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Bound in Heaven (2024) “Bound In Heaven consistently holds attention yet sacrifices its power when conforming to type. ” – Screen International Oct 16, 2024 Full Review The Killers (2024) “This pulp concoction largely trades Hemingway’s trademark spareness for heightened stylistics, excessive bloodletting and wanton genre-splicing which make it yet another addition to the over-flowing pile of post-Tarantino crime pictures.” – Screen International Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Pierce (2024) “This is a classy package which comes with considerable art-house cachet... Its core strength, though, is the narratively fleet yet psychologically layered screenplay from Low, which ensures that Pierce plays as a sophisticated genre piece. ” – Screen International Jul 15, 2024 Full Review Viet and Nam (2024) 100% “Viet And Nam may studiously occupy a certain world cinema niche, but Truong’s flourishes ensure that it offers a richly personal blend of the authentic and the abstract.” – Screen International May 22, 2024 Full Review Mongrel (2024) 100% “Anchored by a lived-in performance from Wanlop Rungkumjad as a bedraggled migrant caregiver striving to maintain his humanity despite being exploited by his employer, this is a deeply sobering expansion of Chiang’s thematic focus.” – Screen International May 20, 2024 Full Review Locust (2024) 67% “In terms of its genre beats, Locust features some bruising fisticuffs but mostly simmers confidently before erupting in forceful fashion. ” – Screen International May 19, 2024 Full Review 12.12: The Day (2023) “A nail-biting thriller complete with confidently handled set-pieces, expert cross-cutting and measured use of split-screen.” – Screen International Mar 5, 2024 Full Review YOLO (2024) 82% “Trades in crude humour and is often so condescending towards its put-upon protagonist that any eventual uplift factor rings rather hollow.” – Screen International Mar 3, 2024 Full Review Article 20 (2024) “Steady pacing by editor Li Yongyi ensures that Article 20 is consistently engaging even when its mild criticism of China’s legal framework is less than convincing.” – Screen International Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Small Hours of the Night (2024) “Shot in high contrast black-and-white, this is equal parts political critique, psychological drama and cinematic puzzle.” – Screen International Feb 1, 2024 Full Review 13 Bombs (2023) 50% “A general adherence to a familiar template and over-reliance on stock elements prevents 13 Bombs from ever truly quickening the pulse.” – Screen International Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Brief History of a Family (2024) 92% “Ambiguity is maintained through a finely modulated quartet of performances which are in-synch with the film’s technical elements.” – Screen International Jan 22, 2024 Full Review The Goldfinger (2023) 59% “As a film concerned with the power of perception, The Goldfinger largely succeeds as a style exercise.” – Screen International Dec 20, 2023 Full Review Across the Furious Sea (2023) “One of the most relentless Chinese thrillers in recent memory.” – Screen International Dec 2, 2023 Full Review Snow In Midsummer (2023) “Chong’s refusal to address history in didactic terms means there is much to admire in this meticulously crafted cinematic remembrance.” – Screen International Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Wrestler (2023) “If this enigmatic film does not entirely reward the necessary patience, it certainly offers a wilfully esoteric meditation on the otherworldly nature of coastal existence.” – Screen International Oct 17, 2023 Full Review Borrowed Time (2023) “An affectingly restrained rumination on severed ties which delicately blends an observational sensibility with dreamlike flourishes.” – Screen International Oct 13, 2023 Full Review Under the Light (2023) “Unfortunately, the screenplay by Chen Yu is so brimming with machinations and shady dealings that it gets too muddled for early momentum to be sustained.” – Screen International Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Snow Leopard (2023) 78% “A testament to Tseden’s gift for telling stories that are deeply rooted in Tibetan culture yet retain an entirely universal cinematic vision.” – Screen International Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Love Is a Gun (2023) “A succinctly realised and eminently promising first feature.” – Screen International Sep 4, 2023 Full Review City of Wind (2023) 100% “This highly accomplished feature debut sees Purev-Ochir striving for an honest depiction of people and place by sensitively illustrating the uncertainties facing Mongolia’s Generation Z, which is now the country’s largest demographic.” – Screen International Aug 31, 2023 Full Review
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