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View of the Arts

View of the Arts is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Alistair Ryder, Amarsanaa Battulga.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
The Sun Rises on Us All (2025) Alistair Ryder The film is at its best when keeping the unresolved emotions between its two leads at the forefront, affording them no chance to reconcile or redeem themselves, no matter how many times they talk through the events that led to their estrangement.
Posted Sep 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Legend Of The Happy Worker (2025) Alistair Ryder If nothing else, it feels like the distinctive work of a man who has worked for both the Disney Channel and one of the greatest directors in the history of American cinema.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Cloud (2024) Alistair Ryder When the current wave of “eat the rich” genre satires finally comes to an end, this morally thorny tale will stand strong as one of the era’s richest.
Posted Apr 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Viet and Nam (2024) Alistair Ryder If you can acclimatize to its very deliberate pacing, you’ll be rewarded with a quietly haunting tale of a doomed relationship, albeit one where the quietness often comes into conflict with such a historically potent backdrop.
Posted Feb 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
By the Stream (2024) Alistair Ryder Hong's most ambitiously self-reflective tale...
Posted Jan 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) Alistair Ryder I might complain about the formulaic storytelling, but I won’t pretend I didn’t feel something in my eye by the end.
Posted Dec 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Through Rocks and Clouds (2024) Amarsanaa Battulga While its story is important and intentions well-meaning, its execution falls short of reaching the same level.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Smugglers (2023) Amarsanaa Battulga 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.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
If Only I Could Hibernate (2023) Amarsanaa Battulga Zoljargal’s If Only I Could Hibernate is a candid social drama with a local focus, a universal appeal, and a lot of heart.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Return to Seoul (2022) Amarsanaa Battulga Return to Seoul is an irresistible work that one is likely to return to again and again.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Alienoid (2022) Amarsanaa Battulga 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.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
World War III (2022) Amarsanaa Battulga 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.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Perhaps Love (2021) Amarsanaa Battulga 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.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Kingmaker (2022) Amarsanaa Battulga Kingmaker is a story of crushed idealism but of a slightly different, nuanced kind.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Sleep (2024) Alistair Ryder It’s far from perfect – and I don’t quite understand what Bong Joon-ho has seen in it to label it “the most unique horror film and the smartest debut film” he’s seen in the past decade – but there is plenty to enjoy here.
Posted Jul 09, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Locust (2024) Alistair Ryder Ignore the specific cultural milieu; this is a broadly written tale of generational angst written in a way that young viewers can easily insert themselves into, attempting to be meaningful to all and likelier to prove meaningless to most.
Posted May 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) Alistair Ryder Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In achieves the impossible, thrilling with each elaborately choreographed fight even if the characters are archetypes too broad to invest in, and their every move designed with a lack of harsh realism.
Posted May 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Evil Does Not Exist (2023) Alistair Ryder Other critics have heralded this as another masterpiece which continues the director’s strong recent run, but its very deliberately orchestrated messiness fell a little flat for me.
Posted Dec 19, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Perfect Days (2023) Alistair Ryder (Hirayama is) a warm, welcoming presence, largely through gestures alone. He’s also one of the most uninteresting figures you could think to craft an entire character study around.
Posted Dec 19, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Cobweb (2023) Alistair Ryder Cobweb satisfies as a comedy, but doesn’t feel particularly indistinguishable from other movies about making movies, despite a richer, more unique cultural milieu.
Posted Oct 17, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Past Lives (2023) Alistair Ryder The masterstroke of Song’s screenplay is that, despite its emotional directness, there is still ample room to reinterpret character dynamics up to and including the devastating final moments.
Posted Aug 31, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Omen (2023) Alistair Ryder Despite the genre-bending surrealism, it’s the character drama which packs the biggest punch.
Posted Jun 01, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Tiger Stripes (2023) Alistair Ryder Metaphor may be an ingenious way to craft an accessible story about puberty, but in the case of Tiger Stripes, it’s much more powerful when it hits close to home.
Posted May 18, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Silver Haze (2023) Alistair Ryder The problem with Silver Haze isn't that there's a good film lost amidst the mess - it's that there are at least three good ones buried deep within this unruly final cut.
Posted Mar 08, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Joyland (2022) Alistair Ryder I'm not entirely convinced it succeeds as an LGBTQ narrative due to the lens through which we view its trans lead; Biba may have agency, but ultimately, this never becomes her story.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Jung_E (2023) Alistair Ryder The introductory set piece and much of the third act prove exciting in spite of their familiarity. What a shame we're never given a reason to care about their stakes whatsoever during the unsatisfying story in-between.
Posted Jan 25, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Broker (2022) Alistair Ryder As with Kore-eda's finest work, there are more moral complexities than meets the eye, although this time, this isn't hidden beneath the surface, leaving him no choice but to overcompensate with sentimentality to not risk missing the emotional pay off.
Posted Dec 19, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Decision to Leave (2022) Alistair Ryder It's one of Park's least seedy works to date - this might be the first of his films you could watch with your parents - but that newfound maturity when approaching his usual thematic obsessions does make it considerably less exciting.
Posted Oct 19, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
Carter (2022) Alistair Ryder By the end, Carter remains easy to appreciate in terms of its sheer ambition - but with the exception of its opening stretch, the execution doesn’t match director Jung’s lofty aims.
Posted Aug 07, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022) Alistair Ryder For a film that follows several characters who bend the law if it means achieving their goals, it's a little dissatisfying the extent to which the film plays things by the book.
Posted Jun 14, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Memoria (2021) Alistair Ryder Throughout the pandemic, several directors have said the big screen is essential for their films. Weerasethakul offers pure immersion instead of spectacle, and has delivered the only Covid-era film that would be unthinkable to watch anywhere else.
Posted Jan 12, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Aloners (2021) Alistair Ryder It's not a Covid film, but the small moments articulate the feelings of many over the past few years better than the works directly tackling the crisis.
Posted Nov 18, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Souvenir Part II (2021) Alistair Ryder Hogg's Souvenir sequel is her strongest work to date, a culmination of the rich themes that bubbled too far under the surface of its predecessor. If you too were left cold by that film, you won't regret giving this one a chance.
Posted Oct 28, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Titane (2021) Alistair Ryder Titane proves that Julia Ducournau is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today, thoroughly reinvigorating the conventional family drama in ways that excite and challenge. It's so much more than the car sex movie.
Posted Oct 21, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Ali & Ava (2021) Alistair Ryder This is one of the most believably drawn screen romances in some time, but the regular narrative contrivances to keep the couple apart are the stuff of cliché, and frequently detract from the delightfully realised character drama at the centre.
Posted Sep 20, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Ahed's Knee (2021) Alistair Ryder Coupled with the various digressions, such as extravagantly staged musical numbers, the film could be seen as much as a testament to the power of filmmaking as it is a takedown of its timidity in the face of censorship.
Posted Sep 13, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
Boy Meets Boy (2021) Alistair Ryder Much like how Pulp Fiction spawned an entire genre of imitators, Andrew Haigh's 2011 film Weekend has a lot to answer for. Boy Meets Boy is destined to live in its shadow, following the same beats but with little in the way of new inspiration.
Posted Sep 07, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
I'm Your Man (2021) Alistair Ryder Reversing the conventional gender roles of a quasi-romantic AI drama, Schrader's film is an effective commentary on the way the genre tackles these manufactured relationships between man and machine.
Posted Aug 12, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Playground (2021) Alistair Ryder It's one of the year's boldest and best directorial debuts, in addition to being one of the most incisive films about how children experience bullying yet made.
Posted Jul 19, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
The Heroics (2021) Alistair Ryder It's not a heroic effort, but it's admirable in spite of its flaws.
Posted Jul 19, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Bloody Oranges (2021) Alistair Ryder It's a film that sets out to shock, not fully realising it has the brains to deliver something much more substantial.
Posted Jul 15, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Sweat (2020) Alistair Ryder One of the strongest films yet made about life in the social media bubble, interrogating how it affects real-world identities and relationships without resorting to lazy moralising.
Posted Jun 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Surge (2020) Alistair Ryder Ben Whishaw's performance helps elevate Surge. It transforms an admirable, but flawed, debut into a much more effective one.
Posted May 18, 2021  Edit critic review
Censor (2021) Alistair Ryder a stylish but flawed rebuke to the conservative idea that our minds are corrupted by the films we watch.
Posted May 18, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Rūrangi (2020) Alistair Ryder It will prove enlightening for cis viewers, but the film isn't directly aimed at them - it's an authentic account of a specific trans experience that is rarely dramatised in this way.
Posted Apr 16, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Cowboys (2020) Alistair Ryder Cowboys may suffer from spending more time with the parents than the trans child at the centre of the narrative, but there is still much to commend it for.
Posted Mar 14, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
Poppy Field (2020) Alistair Ryder Poppy Field has a bold idea, but very few moments live up to its promise, with its central character study paling next to the wider cultural commentary left in the margins.
Posted Mar 08, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Pleasure (2021) Alistair Ryder More than just the mere sum of its most explicit scenes, Pleasure gets under your skin and stays there long after the initial visceral reactions wear off.
Posted Feb 18, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Alistair Ryder Anchored by two exquisite and wonderfully contrasting lead performances, Judas and the Black Messiah is about as exciting as a biopic can get.
Posted Feb 08, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
The Mauritanian (2021) Alistair Ryder Whereas a film like Trial of the Chicago 7 is written in a way to reaffirm the political beliefs of the wider audience, The Mauritanian is designed to challenge them - it is bolder than its conventions may initially appear on the surface.
Posted Jan 18, 2021  Edit critic review
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