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No filmmaker is more plugged in to the current moment than Radu Jude. His 2021 film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn was made at the height of the pandemic, an... Read more »

“Smile. Say the words on the page. It’s not hard,” Adem (Rizwan) tells himself as he stares into a mirror. It’s not always as easy as... Read more »

Mike White tends to make films about life’s outsiders. In his 2000 breakthrough Chuck & Buck, which he wrote for director Miguel Arteta, White play... Read more »

Considering the access that the team behind The Final Year was granted, it’s frustrating that it hasn’t resulted in a better movie. Documentarian... Read more »

According to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2009 essay The Memory of Nabua: A Note on the Primitive Project, “ghosts will appear under certain conditions,... Read more »

Lucrecia Martel has taken a long and winding road to Zama. In 2011, after spending two years developing an adaptation of Héctor Germán Oesterhe... Read more »

The protagonist in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is the kind of character we’ve seen before. A priest in a small Dutch Reformed Church in u... Read more »

Chloé Zhao took a risk by casting non-actors in The Rider. After some stiffness and uncertainty in the early scenes, it pays off handsomely. As the ro... Read more »

Elaine May’s reputation has travelled further than her films. She has been hailed as a key influence by a whole generation of American comedians &ndash... Read more »

There’s nothing new about dramatic tales of tragic solo sailing trips making their way to the big screen – we’ve had two Donald Crowhurst b... Read more »

We’ve all heard a lot of outlandish claims made about Chuck Norris thanks to the ‘Chuck Norris Facts’ meme that was an internet staple some... Read more »

“Who are you?” Those are the words we see scrawled on a Post-it Note towards the end of Rose Plays Julie, and it’s a question tha... Read more »

When Sean Baker was researching the porn industry for his 2012 film Starlet, he kept running into the same type of man. In the adult film world, there are sh... Read more »

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a portrait of three women who live in the shadow of their family’s patriarch. The film opens wi... Read more »

Ad Astra Dir. James Gray | Release TBC After taking characters to the New World (The Immigrant) and deep into the Amazon rainforest (The Lost City of Z), J... Read more »

A black-and-white drama from Mexico has topped Sight & Sound’s annual film of the year poll. No news there. But Roma, the new film from Oscar-winni... Read more »

After the Wedding Dir. Bart Freundlich A weepie in the semi-classic, Redford-esque tradition, After the Wedding features some of the best dramatic directio... Read more »

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum) The Bridesmaids team is back with a bang in this kaleidoscopic, sublimely silly and criminall... Read more »

About Dry Grasses Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan Dependable brilliance can bring its own kind of fatigue for an arthouse superstar. Films will do well at the festi... Read more »

Ambulance Dir. Michael Bay Once derided as the exemplar of all that was coarse and dumb in American cinema, Michael Bay’s high-octane style now feels... Read more »

The Breadwinner Dir. Nora Twomey The Breadwinner is an ode to storytelling, revelling in the boundless freedom of animation to create a kaleidoscope of t... Read more »

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 »

10. I’m Thinking of Ending Things Dir. Charlie Kaufman Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons star as a couple on the brink of a messy break-up in Charlie ... Read more »

1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed  Dir. Laura Poitras This year – both cinematically and politically – has been characterised by cr... Read more »

Alice, Darling Dir. Mary Nighy As the title character in this effectively claustrophobic drama, Anna Kendrick is caught in an emotionally abusive relations... Read more »

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 »

10. Love Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass’s sophomore feature, is a sapphic grindhouse version of Pumping Iro... Read more »

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 »

25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »

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 »