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Sam Davies

Sam Davies's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Departures (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “For all its stylistic, sometimes overwhelming ambition, Departures ultimately feels grounded. ” – Little White Lies Apr 20, 2026 Full Review Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) 97% EDIT “Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’État takes this collision of politics and jazz, Cold War and colonialism, and lays out with cool precision the different strands of its backstory.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 90% EDIT “In shining a light on a kind of interstitial moment, an in-between period of definite endings and uncertain beginnings, this year (and a bit) in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono finds just enough new angles and details.” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review blur: To the End (2024) 90% EDIT “Director Toby L takes a straightforward fly-on-the-wall approach – candid, handheld footage, with no cosy talking-head input from collaborators or commentators... There is the feeling of a group willing to let the director test their boundaries. ” – Sight & Sound Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Chevalier (2022) 76% EDIT “Unfortunately, despite the extraordinary details of the chevalier’s life – and beyond splashy set pieces like its opening scene – Chevalier struggles to find a story.” – Sight & Sound Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Junun (2015) 100% EDIT “Junun treats each piece with the respect it's due: takes are shown from start to finish, and their closing cadences allowed to hang for a moment in the air.” – Sight & Sound Oct 21, 2015 Full Review The Walk (2015) 83% EDIT “It's hard in the end to think of a single aspect of Petit's feat that is better served by Zemeckis's treatment than Marsh's [in Man on Wire].” – Sight & Sound Oct 13, 2015 Full Review Björk: Biophilia Live (2014) 77% EDIT “To adapt a very old quotation, Biophilia Live asserts that nothing human is foreign to nature.” – Sight & Sound Oct 23, 2014 Full Review Finding Fela (2014) 60% EDIT “Finding Fela fully earns its two-hour running time, and could easily have sustained more, such is the wealth of material and music, and such is the brisk momentum maintained by Gibney and editor Lindy Jankura.” – Sight & Sound Sep 5, 2014 Full Review Berberian Sound Studio (2012) 85% EDIT “Berberian Sound Studio refuses such a climax: it at once celebrates giallo and takes it apart, disassembling it like Derren Brown explaining an illusion.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2013 Full Review GasLand (2010) 97% EDIT “With a remorselessness all the more powerful for its quiet unfussiness, Fox builds up a riveting portrait of near-apocalyptic environmental damage and a corporate mindset willing to ruin water sources irrevocably for the sake of a few years' profit.” – Sight & Sound Jan 18, 2011 Full Review
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