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Films of 2018: Mid-year report
Phantom Thread Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson There are blatant shades of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, but the mo... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2019
30. Zombi Child Dir. Bertrand Bonello After the frustrations of Bertrand Bonello’s blithe attitude towards pretty compelling ideas in 2016&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Films of 2019: Mid-year report
20. Wild Rose (Dir. Tom Harper) 19. Too Late to Die Young (Dir. Dominga Sotomayor) 18. John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (Dir. Chad Stahelski) 17. Amazing Grac... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Pop(corn) Art: 20 Artful 21st Century Blockbusters
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) Marketed as a sci-fi adventure starring Brad Pitt, Ad Astra was heralded as a masterpiece by some critics, but audie... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
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The Skinny's Albums of 2023
Before we get into our top ten, it's important to show some love for the albums that didn't quite make the cut. At number 20 is Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2021
20. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) "Director Darius Marder has crafted a profound story about deafness, intimately exploring the nuances of hearing loss a... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2022: Our Writers' Top 10s
Collectively, our Film team voted Aftersun the film of the year. You can read a rundown of our full top ten here. If you’re looking for more idiosyncra... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Film writers' individual top tens of the year 2018
You've probably read The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018 list, but our Film team is a broad church. Phantom Thread, The Skinny's Film of 2018, was ubiquitous o... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2020: Our Writers' Top 10s
Find Out The Skinny's Top Ten Films of 2020 Eilidh Akilade 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) 2. Rocks (Sarah Gavron) 3. Shirley (Josephi... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2019: Our Writers' Top 10s
Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2021: Our Writers' Top 10s
In our 2021 film of the Year poll, the Skinny’s Film Team collectively voted Céline Sciamma’s beguiling fairytale Petite Maman top of... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Films of 2017: The 25 Best Films of the Year
25. Paddington 2 Dir. Paul King Once again Paul King marries Michael Bond’s genteel charms with his own hugely imaginative visual style to create a... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of the 2010s
30. Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams finally shook off any lingering connections with their tee... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018
25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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“I want to be unpredictable”: Roy Andersson Interview
“Why should we care about one another?” This was the slogan of Sweden’s Socialdemokraterna party when eccentric filmmaker Roy Andersso... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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A New Grammar: Josephine Decker
“Oh my god, what an honour.” There’s no hiding the glee in Josephine Decker’s voice when discussing the praise that has been bestowed... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Eat Drink Man Woman
The final chapter in Ang Lee’s 'Father Knows Best' trilogy completes the director’s tenderly ironic chronicle of the compromise between tradition... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Aquarius
In his critically acclaimed debut, Neighbouring Sounds, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho presented audiences with a multifaceted portrait of a... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Son of Saul director: “It had to be raw”
Hungarian director László Nemes tells us how he approached filming the unfilmable with blistering Holocaust drama Son of Saul Set in the Ausch... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Life of Riley
Alain Resnais’ final film, Life of Riley, premiered just three weeks before the director’s passing. An adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's play o... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Trainwreck
Amy Schumer, renowned for her subversive humour, makes her screenwriting debut with a romantic comedy disguised as a takedown of gender constructs. Schu... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Berlinale: The Good, the Bad and the Infuriatingly Opaque
The 64th Berlinale kicked off in style with opening film Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s twee follow-up to Moonrise Kingdom. It was the ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Masculinity in Crisis: Ruben Östlund on Force Majeure
“One of the goals of the film is to increase the number of divorces in society,” says Force Majeure's director Ruben Östlund. The 40-year-ol... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Inner Lives: Onscreen disability in Eskil Vogt's Blind
In his debut feature, Norwegian screenwriter-turned-director Eskil Vogt imbues cognitive visualisations with narrative trickery to achieve what many have tri... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Portrait of the Artist as an Abhorrent Young Man: Alex Ross Perry on Listen Up Philip
The title of Alex Ross Perry’s third feature, Listen Up Philip, a witty New York-set literary comedy, refers to the film’s tremendously narcissis... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Mistaken Identity: Christian Petzold on Phoenix
Despite making his debut 15 years ago, with The State I Am In, and being widely considered the most talented director of post-1989 Germany, Christian Pe... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Festivals
Berlinale 2016: refugee crisis & family strife
The decision to open the 66th Berlin International Film Festival with Hail, Caesar!, a star-studded paean to Golden-era Hollywood, felt like an unorthodox ch... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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War on Everyone
Like a self-aware feature-length episode of Starsky & Hutch, John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone transfers the distinctively confrontational hu... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Rams
The sibling rivalry between two ageing sheep farmers provides the backdrop to Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams, a tender comedy about the struggl... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Sebastian Schipper on single-shot crime flick Victoria
Sitting down with German actor-turned-director Sebastian Schipper to discuss his latest film, Victoria, is like reminiscing with an old friend abou... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago