Cineskinny: Film Reviews
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Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher’s drama about a village of peasant farmers cut off from society spills from poetic realism to dreamy fantasy to tell a spellbinding story that’s a potent allegory for the pervasive evils of modern capitalism Read more »| 26 Feb 2019 -
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GFF19: Eighth Grade
Adolescence is hell in this spiky but tender debut from US standup Bo Burnham, which follows a painfully awkward 13-year-old on her last few days of middle school, with high school looming Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
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GFF19: The Vanishing
Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler and Connor Swindells play lighthouse keepers going through psychological turmoil in Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s handsome, satisfyingly dour Scottish thriller Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
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Transit
In Christian Petzold's inventive adaptation of Anna Seghers' Marseille-set WWII novel, past and present fold in on themselves to draw parallels between the fear and paranoia of Nazi-occupied Europe and the treatment of refugees in Europe today Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
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The Hole in the Ground
A young boy walks into a mysterious hole in the ground, and when he returns, his mother feels there's something not quite right about the lad in this effective Irish horror Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
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I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Radu Jude's latest is a darkly comic, politically timely meta-drama following an idealistic theatre director preparing to stage a grand outdoor historical pageant based on 1941's Odessa massacre Read more »| 20 Feb 2019
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Border
Ali Abbasi’s second feature – a heady hybrid of romance, Nordic noir and supernatural fantasy – is teeming with ideas, but ends up in conflict with itself Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
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Styx
Cinematic migrant crisis drama set on the high seas Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
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Thunder Road
Jim Cummings writes, directs and stars in this wild and heartfelt story of a cop who goes into a tailspin following the death of his mother Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
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Only You
Glasgow-set Only You begins like a soufflé-light rom-com, but director Harry Wootliff has something far more tender and grown-up in mind Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
Reviews
An Elephant Sitting Still
Hu Bo's first and final feature is a quietly devastating reflection on the desperation of the left-behind in modern China Read more »| 11 Dec 2018 -
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Nae Pasaran
Felipe Bustos Sierra's documentary Nae Pasaran shows how a group of Rolls-Royce factory workers from East Kilbride put their jobs on the line to take a stand against Chile's military junta Read more »| 30 Oct 2018 -
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A Prayer Before Dawn
Joe Cole gives an intensely physical performance in this bruising drama immersing us in the brutal world of a Thai prison Read more »| 20 Jul 2018 -
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Let the Sunshine In
Claire Denis joins forces with another icon of French cinema – Juliette Binoche – for a romantic comedy that's an empathetic, perceptive and moving exploration of 21st century love and sex Read more »| 04 Apr 2018 -
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Beast
The boundary between man and animal is explored in Michael Pearce's compelling, sensual and pleasingly off-kilter Beast Read more »| 03 Apr 2018