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  • The long list of production credits for Matt Porterfield's docu-realist drama Putty Hill, out last year, records a certain Keith "Biscuit" Holmes, who is one of the extras in the funeral scene at the end.

    Peter Bradshaw on nicknames in closing credits 2011

  • "The Other Half", directed by Ying Liang in 2000, is a witty, docu-realist portrait of modern Chinese women told jointly through interviews with 'real life' women at a law firm and the trials of Xiaofen, a law clerk who's life is as messy as her clients.

    Shanghaiist 2010

  • "Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "Better then to admire The Exiles for its specific docu-realist elements, which preserve places and moments that viewers won't find in any other film."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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  • "If 1990s sitcoms were characterised by sexually liberated pals cracking wise, and the 00s by docu-realist, workplace-based cringe comedy, this decade has been dominated by the sadcom, a strain of comedy-drama shuddering under the weight of personal hardship and the idea that actual jokes are largely unnecessary."

    August 17, 2023