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It’s been nearly 20 years since 60s TV spy show Mission: Impossible made the leap to the big screen, largely abandoning the source material’s Col... Read more »

Adapted from Colm Tóibín’s beloved novel, Brooklyn is a refreshingly old-fashioned melodrama with depths that transcend its initial light... Read more »

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) 45 Years is a ghost story, but the spectre haunting Geoff and Kate (expertly played by Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling),... Read more »

Evolution Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Ever since writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic teased that she was working on an original feature over a decade ag... Read more »

In his 18 hour documentary, The Story of Film, Mark Cousins offered cinema enthusiasts a comprehensive tour of the medium, tracing its journey from a no... Read more »

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) “I hate characters,” a woman states in Goodbye to Language, and it’s clear she is speaking on behalf... Read more »

GIRLHOOD (CÉLINE SCIAMMA) The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boy... Read more »

I Am Belfast Dir. Mark Cousins Mark Cousins is arguably one of the best film essayists of our time, and the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur ... Read more »

Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) — 22 Feb Based on the incredibly complex novel by David Mitchell (not that one), Cloud Atlas consists of ... Read more »

”I feel like I'm on the outside looking in,” opines Tom Berninger, halfway through this brilliantly idiosyncratic documentary in which he is both... Read more »

1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »

What to stream this week: Luke Cage The MCU version of New York is getting pretty crowded. As well as the Avengers and Spider-Man on the big screen, the s... Read more »

Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) It's hard to imagine we'll see many more perfectly matched performances this year than the two delivered by Rebecca Spence and... Read more »

Best new films in the Multiplex Free Fire Ben Wheatley returns with a great cast (Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Noah Taylor, Armie Hammer), he puts them i... Read more »

Tangerine Sean Baker’s Tangerine (★★★★) is a dazzling rush around the Sunset Strip, following Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), a trans prostitute... Read more »

Scottish filmmaker Scott Graham follows up his excellent debut, Shell, with Iona, which follows a young woman named Iona (Ruth Negga) and her son Bull (... Read more »

Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins How did the story of a gay black man from Miami, with a largely unknown cast, become a universally acclaimed box office hit ... Read more »

As The Skinny goes on a break and waits for the situation outside to improve, the people who make this project what it is – the writers, photographers,... Read more »

From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »

The best film and TV to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, an... Read more »

What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Under the Skin is a film that shows you things you’ve never seen before. Jonathan Glazer’s extraordin... Read more »

T2 (Danny Boyle) Released 27 Jan We’d be lying if we said we weren’t itching to see Rents, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie on the big screen once m... Read more »

Love & Friendship Dir. Whit Stillman It shouldn’t exactly be a shock that the year’s funniest film to date comes from American writer-dir... Read more »

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) The standout line of 2013 comes in the extended third act of its standout film, Richard Linklater’s second unex... Read more »

1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »

Given recent votes, we half expected something racist and idiotic like Gerard Butler hokum Gods of Egypt to top this best films of the year poll. This drum t... Read more »

Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »

Court is in session. On trial are the critics and audiences who gave short shrift to these great films. The plaintiffs range from overlooked gems (A Bigger S... Read more »