Cineskinny: Film Reviews
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The Road to Civil War: Marvel Renaissance
Documentary charting the rise and fall of Marvel comics Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
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Louder Than Bombs
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's first English-language film centres on a family trying to cope with the loss of their mother. Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
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Hail, Caesar!
The glamour and prestige of Golden-era Hollywood may be a thing of the past, but its mythology lives on in the Coen Brothers’ riotous new comedy Hail, ... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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High-Rise
Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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James White
Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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11 Minutes
Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski delivers a dazzling multi-strand thriller concerned with chance and chaos Read more »| 12 Feb 2016
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No Home Movie
The final film from Belgian innovator Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal documentary about her own mother. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
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A Girl at My Door
July Jung shows a delicate touch in A Girl at My Door which thrums with love, desire and violence. Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
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Theeb
Revenge, loss of innocence and the conflict between old and new permeate Naji Abu Nowar’s terrific debut, Theeb. Set in the desolate if beautiful lands... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
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52 Tuesdays
52 Tuesdays chronicles the relationship of 16-year-old Billie (Tilda Cobham-Harvey) and her transgender mother, James (Del Herbert-Jane), who makes the diffi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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Black Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Following Not Quite Hollywood, his 2008 documentary about the Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 80s, writer-director Mark Hartley returns to pr... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Monsters: Dark Continent
In the vein of the genre switch-up between Alien and Aliens, Monsters sequel Dark Continent is an action-orientated take on the setup of the more modest orig... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Girlhood
The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boyhood, but where Richard Linklater&... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015