Instead it almost oozes sweat, dust and marijuana with the smell of rotting meat and engine oil in what is effectively a love letter to Lagos that reflects a growing interest in social realism.

Using a social realism that is all the more powerful for its restraint, Carreira avoids wild swings and contrived speeches, and trusts the audience to be swept up by a devastating performance of a ...

Like the exemplars of social realist cinema, Mr Bates vs The Post Office follows stories of individual plight facing a social problem filmed in a naturalistic manner.

Legal realism posits that the law cannot be divorced from the social, political, and economic contexts in which it operates.

Crackpot realism reigns in the Bush administration. George Will is bright and well educated enough to lessen our burden by not ignoring social reality so consistently.

Instead it almost oozes sweat, dust and marijuana with the smell of rotting meat and engine oil in what is effectively a love letter to Lagos that reflects a growing interest in social realism.