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  • 16 Years Of Alcohol (2003)
    Review preview for 16 Years Of Alcohol

    Richard Jobson's debut is full of abiding images that linger long after the final credits.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Life and times of a budding drunk in the mean streets of Edinburgh.
  • New Town Killers (2008)
    Review preview for New Town Killers

    Jobson uses the inherent thrill of the hunt to pursue his concerns about the vast gulf between the haves and the have-nots, and the arrogant disconnect of those who view life as mere data on a screen.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    A skint teenager realises his life may be on the line after entering into a deadly game of hide and seek.
  • The Purifiers (2004)
    Review preview for The Purifiers

    The design of the film is straightforward and yet cleverly skewed.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    Futuristic gang war chopsocky Scottish vigilante action packer.
  • The Somnambulists (2011)
    Review preview for The Somnambulists

    The Somnambulists is a powerful, unapologetically political contribution to the discourse about this country's questionable manoeuvrings abroad since 9/11, lest we forget.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Richard Jobson's committed, imaginative response to our collective apathy to the war in Iraq.
  • A Woman In Winter (2005)
    Review preview for A Woman In Winter

    A Woman In Winter is about obsession. Occasionally, when clarity breaks through, you can feel the power of possession and how illusion fades like the mist.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Intense romance between a shy scientist and an ethereal French girl in Edinburgh.

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