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Better Days
Directed by
Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
Not Rated
2019
2h 15m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
7.6
97%
97%
8.1
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While she copes with the pressures of her final examinations, a bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants.
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Cast of Better Days
Zhou Dongyu
Chen Nian
Jackson Yee
Xiao Bei / Songs
Yin Fang
Zheng Ye
Huang Jue
Lao Yang
Wu Yue
Chen Nian's Mother
Zhou Ye
Wei Lai
Zhang Xinyi
Xu Miao
Zhao Runnan
Da Kang
Zhang Yao
Li Xiang
Zhang Yifan
Hu Xiaodie
Gao Xuanming
Lai Zi
Xie Xintong
Wang Li
Heliao Lüyun
Punk Gang Leader
Bozhan Ju
Loan Shark
Wang Yingming
Dean
Weilong Li
Debtor
Li Zhencheng
[Da Kang's father]
Liu Ran
Luo Ting
Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
Director
Lam Wing-Sum
Writer
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Better Days Ratings & Reviews
Next Best Picture
Tom O'Brien
Tsang pulls no punches in his handling of the film's bullying scenes - the violence, both physical and emotional, ring painfully true -- yet his serious approach to the film's romance keeps the story's anti-bullying message from overwhelming "Better Days"
In Review Online
Sam C. Mac
The cratering emotional impact of the film, though, is owed to Tsang's knife's-edge balance of broad melodrama and acute social realism.
Cinema Crazed
Emilie Black
Better Days is a touching, vulnerable, sometimes frustrating (for good reasons), film that brings hard subjects to forefront and makes something out of them that not only pass a message, but also show a lot of heart in the process.
JVS Media & Productions/Team JVS
Samuel Leggett Jr.
Hits you emotionally, an inspired triumph from the director & has convincing standout performances from both leads. This will is not only hard hitting but very important one!
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
Better Days often feels like an extremely bleak after-school special, but thanks to Zhou and Yee's remarkable performances, it's worth sticking with to the bitter end.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
"Days" might sound like a downer, but it lives up to its title.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Todd McCarthy
It's an absolutely serious look at youth with assorted semi-sensationalistic societal trappings; an oddly effective combination of red meat and popcorn.
Awards Daily
Frank J. Avella
There's love story at the core of this admirable film, which does stumble into melodrama but in a way that totally works and waylays it from becoming a PSA.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
Better Days is particularly harrowing in its first half.
VCinema
Grant Watson
Better Days truly is one hell of a thing.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
"Better Days" manages to combine the best from both independent and mainstream cinema, which is the recipe that led to both critical and commercial success. Definitely one of the best films of the year.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A meaningful but overwrought youth drama about bullying in Chinese schools.
Cinapse
Ed Travis
Better Days strikes a hopeful and human note, suggesting that a true bond can stand against the crushing systems all around us.
Elements of Madness
Douglas Davidson
... Better Days is best understood as a contemplation on our own role in society, that it's not enough to want us to be better, but to create the version of the world we long for.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Though not very subtle in presenting its thesis, the story is generally suspenseful and well-told by young HK actor and director Tsang.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
Gripping, superbly performed melodrama... deeply moving if occasionally overwrought...
Film Inquiry
Andrew Stover
With all of the topics being cultivated in this 2-hour venture, it can get a bit jumbled and enervating. But exquisitely acted by Zhou Dongyu and beautifully shot, Derek Tsang's stark film doesn't hide the brutality of bullying.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Dark as Better Days gets, there's still a hopeful story about how honesty and courage and fix even the most broken systems.
Cinema Escapist
Richard Yu
While taking an emotional toll, the all-too-realistic bullying scenes also make the film more realistic and empathetic for audience members.
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling
Three years ago, (Derek)Tsang made "Soul Mate," an enchanting tale about female friendship that offered an engrossing look at modern, urban China. Yet that film isn't quite adequate preparation for the emotional wallop of "Better Days."
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