Better Days

"Days" might sound like a downer, but it lives up to its title.

Sociopolitically significant both on and off screen.

It's an absolutely serious look at youth with assorted semi-sensationalistic societal trappings; an oddly effective combination of red meat and popcorn.

Though not very subtle in presenting its thesis, the story is generally suspenseful and well-told by young HK actor and director Tsang.

Gripping, superbly performed melodrama... deeply moving if occasionally overwrought...

Dark as Better Days gets, there's still a hopeful story about how honesty and courage and fix even the most broken systems.

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"

The cratering emotional impact of the film, though, is owed to Tsang's knife's-edge balance of broad melodrama and acute social realism.

The combination of bullying and academic pressure in high school student is a universal problem [Full review in Spanish]

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.