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By Jon Fortgang (76) for Film4 (1,522) on 23 Jan 2009

Bleak yet powerful, hushed yet haunting, this is an extraordinary portrait of lives dissolving away into nothing in the chilly English countryside…

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By James Christopher (268) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 23 Jan 2009

The young director fails to inject us under the skin of his plotless drama of overdoses and funerals, but he clearly has talent to burn…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 23 Jan 2009

This is a dark and painful film, but one with a fervent belief in the possibility of love…

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By Sophie Ivan (49) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 23 Jan 2009

The film has a powerful, impressionistic style…

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By Chris Hicks (618) for Total Film (3,532) on 23 Jan 2009

Gritty yet incongruously gorgeous - and glacier-paced - this ambitious first feature from Midlands miserablist Duane Hopkins proves that crikey,…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 23 Jan 2009

Hopkins has a singularity of style worth watching and the courage not to flinch in putting it on screen…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 23 Jan 2009

Bleak, depressing but stunningly directed, Better Things is an unforgettable film that marks Duane Hopkins as a British talent to watch…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 23 Jan 2009

British filmmaker Hopkins throws out the rules and breaks ground with a significant new cinematic storytelling language…

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By Anna Smith (519) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 23 Jan 2009

It's a miserable film, really, but it might just get you thinking - and make you grateful for what you've got…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jan 2009

The ironies are always cruel and never comic in British writer-director Duane Hopkins's striking debut, an austere, though empathetic, insightful…

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