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Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »

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 »

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 »

30. Zombi Child Dir. Bertrand Bonello After the frustrations of Bertrand Bonello’s blithe attitude towards pretty compelling ideas in 2016&rsq... Read more »

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 »

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 »

Whether he's taking a beating or dishing one out, Mel Gibson is an actor who's energised by violence, so he's perhaps the inevitable choice to play a vengefu... Read more »

The Peter Jackson who directed Heavenly Creatures may have made something special out of The Lovely Bones. Unfortunately, the Jackson who has directed it is ... Read more »

A work of extraordinary depth and compassion, Lance Hammer's feature debut Ballast explores the lives of three characters whose relationship with each other ... Read more »

Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At th... Read more »

It's not much of a spoiler to say that Melancholia is a film about the end of the world. The movie opens with a gorgeous series of oblique images, culminatin... Read more »

It's hard to know who we're supposed to be rooting for in Beautiful Lies. Pierre Salvadori's French romantic comedy never quite finds the right tone of eithe... Read more »

Lynne Ramsay's return to cinema is an adaptation of – and an improvement upon – Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel; within the film's opening mo... Read more »

After revitalising the samurai picture with the thrilling 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's new movie Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai is a change of pace, and a di... Read more »

The most satisfying thing about This Must Be the Place is that it proves that, even after three decades of remarkable performances, Sean Penn still has the c... Read more »

Le Havre is Aki Kaurismäki's first film made in France since 1992's La vie de bohème, and it acts as a kind of loose sequel to that picture,... Read more »

Some satires exaggerate for effect, but God Bless America doesn't really have to. The visions of trash culture in Bobcat Goldthwait's film are recognisable f... Read more »

Holy Motors is the first Leos Carax feature since 1999's Pola X, and it sometimes feels as if every single idea, dream and nightmare that he has had in those... Read more »

It's obvious that The Shining is much more than a mere horror film, but what exactly is it? Rodney Ascher's highly entertaining Room 237 invites a group of S... Read more »

Xavier Dolan is probably growing weary of film reviews and articles that constantly refer to his age, but when you've had three films screen in Un Certain Re... Read more »

Xavier Dolan certainly isn't lacking in confidence. Fortunately, he has the talent to match it. The young director's third feature, Laurence Anyways, ... Read more »

It's already quite an achievement for a filmmaker to make a great debut film in a country that closed down all cinemas in the 1970s, but when you consider th... Read more »

In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon, the first-time director stars as the beefcake of the title, a cocky stud who has no trouble picking up women, but who stil... Read more »

Its notoriously troubled production may have passed into legend, but Heaven’s Gate has finally emerged from its own tangled history to be regarded as a... Read more »

All of Alexander Payne’s best and worst attributes are on full display in Nebraska. As Woody (Dern) takes a road trip to collect the million-dollar pri... Read more »

After her astonishing work in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, Golshifteh Farahani’s performance in The Patience Stone confirms her status as on... Read more »

When a residential building collapses at the start of Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City, it exposes a web of corruption that the director investigates wit... Read more »

Spun from an urban myth, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter begins by following its own original path but ultimately becomes mired in a too-familiar brand of U... Read more »

After watching Todd Haynes' Carol early on a Wednesday morning, and when speaking to the director just over 24 hours later, the film is constantly repla... Read more »

“Look, this isn't that complicated,” Adam McKay tells The Skinny. “They had these mortgage-backed securities, they were making billions, th... Read more »