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Patrick Gamble
Patrick Gamble's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Sight & Sound
Little White Lies
The Skinny
CineVue
Movies reviews only
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Three Colors: Red (1994) |
Three Colours: Red is the trilogy’s anti-romance, depicting an unconventional love story blossoming against the insurmountable obstacle of age -- perhaps the most adventurous and personal of the trilogy. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Three Colors: White (1993) |
Often overlooked due to its more jovial and subtle approach, Three Colours: White is a surprisingly affecting story that whilst not delivering as strong an emotional hammer blow as Three Colours: Blue is just as an important study of French society. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Three Colors: Blue (1993) |
Like delving into a cold cave of human emotion, Three Colours: Blue is the jewel in the crown of Kieślowski’s trilogy – a fascinating examination of freedom, sorrow and identity, and perhaps one of the most necessary films of contemporary French cinema. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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The Shadowless Tower (2023) |
A supremely confident piece of film-making, The Shadowless Tower is a wistful drama that suggests unlearning yourself is just as important as knowing yourself. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Futura (2021) |
Asking a cross-section of young people about their hopes and fears...[The directors] encountered a generation worried about inequality, climate change and the rise of nationalism. - The Skinny
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Moon, 66 Questions (2021) |
A wildly energetic coming-of-age tale with a distinctly intimate style, Moon 66, Questions confirms Jacqueline Lentzou's position as a visionary director. - The Skinny
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Il buco (2021) |
Il Buco is an immersive, often claustrophobic experience, like plunging the audience into the depths of the abyss and leaving them to blindly search for a spark of revelatory light. - The Skinny
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Flee (2021) |
The film is punctuated with moments of tenderness and gentle humour [which] wouldn’t be possible if it wasn't for the trust shared between subject and filmmaker. - The Skinny
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| Posted Mar 17, 2022
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The United States of America (2022) |
In his quietly subversive Covid-era documentary, Benning offers a wry, yet searching look at an America united not by its principles of opportunity and equality but by its limitations and failures. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Feb 15, 2022
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The French Dispatch (2021) |
For those who share Anderson's fondness for long-form essays and continental culture, The French Dispatch is a rich and absorbing delight. - The Skinny
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| Posted Oct 13, 2021
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Ballad of a White Cow (2021) |
A well-plotted and tightly structured drama about guilt and responsibility, Ballad of A White Cow exposes how Iran's 'eye for an eye' approach to justice has left society blinkered to the suffering of women. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Mar 05, 2021
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Cinema Paradiso (1988) |
A celebration of cinema's communal experience, this lovingly crafted ode to the joys projected upon the silver screen is a touching celebration of moviegoing. - CineVue
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| Posted Oct 23, 2020
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Eden (2012) |
Eden may function as an inauspicious window into the distressing real world of sex works, but its underlying story not only deserves but positively demands a far more considerate and attentive approach than is shown here. - CineVue
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| Posted Jul 17, 2020
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The Painted Bird (2019) |
The Painted Bird might be difficult to endure, but it is even harder to ignore. - The Skinny
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| Posted Mar 03, 2020
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Rojo (2018) |
Rojo's elaborately constructed script is crammed with political symbolism and subplots designed to deceive. - The Skinny
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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Gloria Bell (2018) |
Julianne Moore's effervescent performance adds a sensuality that's arguably missing from the original, but otherwise little has changed in this shot-for-shot remake. - The Skinny
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| Posted May 30, 2019
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Kill List (2011) |
An emotional rollercoaster of a film which devastates and amuses in equal measure. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Panic Button (2011) |
If you're prepared to suspend your disbelief, you'll certainly find some enjoyment in Panic Button's generic attempt to express these genuinely concerning issues -- even if you take little away from its cautionary tale. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Rabies (2010) |
This nihilistic, gutsy film's combination of rich ideas and a cultivated ability to deliver all the scares you desire from a good piece of suspenseful gore is an unconventionally infectious product of a thriving Israeli film industry. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Damsel (2018) |
An off-kilter western about misplaced love that whilst not without its pleasures, ultimately struggles to overcome its abundance of creaky contrivances and absurdities. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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The Heiresses (2018) |
A story about losing and finding romance but choosing independence instead, this deeply felt Paraguayan drama shines a light on the nation's fractured identity by crossing numerous generational and class divides. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Dovlatov (2018) |
Thankfully, German never idolises his subject, instead allowing the audience to walk alongside him, with intricate tracking shots and immersive sound design alluding to a sense of progression, whilst actually reflecting a life spiralling in circles. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Transit (2018) |
By simply transposing Seghers' tale to the modern day, these characters get lost in the muddle of narratives, caught somewhere between the memories of the past and the fears of the future. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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The Prayer (2018) |
Neither dogmatic nor particularly dogma-phobic, The Prayer has a cool, compassionate way of suggesting we need to look inside ourselves rather than to the heavens for help. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Daughter of Mine (2018) |
A bold and colorful, but by no means superficial portrait of femininity, Daughter of Mine successfully embodies a set of ideas -- and anxieties -- about motherhood that eloquently reflect a contemporary need to reevaluate the traditional family unit. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Die Tomorrow (2017) |
A beautiful tapestry about time, and how time works, Thamrongrattanarit strips away the fear that surrounds death by instilling the belief that we should live each day as if we were going to die tomorrow. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Infinite Football (2018) |
Porumboiu proves that even a game of two halves can have multiple dimensions. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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The Green Fog (2017) |
A celebratory, often hilarious piece of work, that so clearly crafted out of a genuine love of film that it leaves you coming away moved. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Yardie (2018) |
This flawed, yet enjoyable genre flick might make for an uninspiring crime drama, but as an opportunity to explore how central sound system culture was to West Indian communities throughout the UK, it's unbeatable. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Lemonade (2018) |
Uricaru's steady pacing and sympathetic eye ensures that Mara's downbeat journey is a consistently intriguing and watchable one. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Victory Day (2018) |
A rounded portrait of humanity, and how memories are not perfect reconstructions of the past, Victory Day is a subtle study of patriotism and the complex relationship between time and memory. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Yours in Sisterhood (2018) |
A collective portrait of feminism, and a beautiful paean to the lost art of letter writing. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) |
Beautiful, mysterious, lyrical and somehow relaxing in spite of its sadness and persistent instances of violence, there's a hallucinatory aura that surrounds Hu's film, thanks primarily to the lyricism of his camera. - CineVue
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Fourteen (2019) |
A nuanced portrait of female camaraderie presented in all its messy complexity. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Monsters. (Monstri.) (2019) |
The film explores the relationship between modernising cultures and sexual identity, but pushes the envelope further by examining the psychological impact of living in a society where women are still primarily regarded as mothers and wives. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Öndög (2019) |
Filled with beautiful compositions and bathed in twilight blues, Wang communicates a deeply felt respect for the landscape. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Earth (Erde) (2019) |
Individually each of these episodes feel like a purely formal experimentation, but as a whole they take on tangible emotional and political weight. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Ghost Town Anthology (2019) |
Ghost Town Anthology is an entrancing yet unsettling allegory that builds like the pressure of an approaching storm that never quite arrives. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija (2019) |
Nusheva delivering a remarkably naturalistic and commanding performance, shrewdly conveying her character's sense of emotional exhaustion and stoic determinism. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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The Plagiarists (2019) |
The Plagiarists' perfectly judged mimicry of independent cinema illustrates the profound effect a lack of diversity has on the type of art that gets made. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Bait (2019) |
Mark Jenkin's wonderfully weird debut subverts the kitchen sink template to create one of Berlin's most original and satisfying films. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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So Long, My Son (Di jiu tian chang) (2019) |
At just over three-hours, So Long, My Son is an emotionally wrenching film that's epic in scope but intimate in feeling. - CineVue
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Too Late to Die Young (2018) |
Sotomayor's tactile feel for this way of life conjures a richly realised world that is nonetheless subject to adolescent idealism. - The Skinny
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| Posted May 14, 2019
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) |
As a taut pot-boiler, 10 Cloverfield Lane is an unequivocal success, a crafty thriller that keeps the audience guessing up until its final act. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 09, 2019
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Tangerine (2015) |
Poetic realism for a digital age, Tangerine also shares a lot of qualities with the cinema of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. There's no cheap manipulation here and Baker's characters never come across as victims. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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Red Army (2014) |
Red Army ultimately fails to deliver anything other than a superficial account of the USSR's sporting history and the role of sport in the Soviet Union. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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99 Homes (2014) |
While 99 Homes does suffer from some contrived plotting and character development, Bahrani has also produced a timely portrait of the human cost of the housing crisis. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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The Gift (2015) |
The Gift might not smash the boundaries of genre filmmaking but therein lies its appeal; a smart, well-made thriller that balances high-minded cinema with genre thrills. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Dear White People (2014) |
Simien presents a refreshingly vibrant and genuinely hilarious discourse about contemporary racism. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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West (2013) |
Pregnant with deception and exuding a malignancy both frightening and perversely fascinating, cinematographer Frank Lamm's voyeuristic lensing beautifully conveys Nelly's heightened sense of paranoia. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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