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In August 2015, an attempted machine gun terrorist attack on a trans-European train was thwarted by American tourists Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek ... Read more »

The opening of Xavier Legrand’s debut feature is a brief and rapid-fire custody hearing, with the judge asking questions like “Which of you is th... Read more »

The title of Destroyer is never explicitly explained, but it fits the path of vengeance and free-floating emotional and physical violence that permeates the ... Read more »

Steven Soderbergh’s experimentation is making headlines again, this time because his new psychological thriller, Unsane, has been shot on the iPhone 7.... Read more »

For decades, Martin Scorsese has been misconstrued as a director who seeks to glamorise gangsterism and masculine violence. The Irishman is one more undersco... Read more »

Steven Soderbergh is one of the most active minds and boundary-pushing experimenters in mainstream American cinema. From shaking up independent film with Sex... Read more »

“When you drive the same road day after day, it’s easy to think about the road not taken. I try not to do that – I picked a good road,&rdqu... Read more »

Lynne Ramsay is four for four. Almost 20 years into her feature film career, she has made only a quartet of films, but none of them are anything less than ex... Read more »

All set around a café in a quiet backstreet in Seoul, the latest subtle, melancholic and playful dramedy from hyperprolific auteur Hong Sang-soo revea... Read more »

It starts with a set-up that wouldn't be out of place in a romantic comedy: a young, broke wannabe writer starts a fling with an old school friend, a pretty ... Read more »

Miami-born filmmaker Barry Jenkins has worked his way to the centre of Hollywood’s attention in a stunning, enviable trajectory. After graduating Flori... Read more »

For the cultural commentariat in the year 2019, it seems, one does not simply not engage with Joker discourse. And so Todd Phillips’s Joker arrives on ... 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. 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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

“Often I end up making a film in a really horrible place, you know, where I don't really want to go, but it's because the story is so good,” says... Read more »

Carol Morley’s woozy, eerie, 1969-set girls’ school mystery has proved divisive on the festival circuit – at London Film Festival, where it... Read more »

There was a time when Peter Bogdanovich was a superstar director, and after making megahits with the monochrome elegy The Last Picture Show and the breakneck... Read more »

John Ford’s take on the Gunfight at the OK Corral was one of the first of his string of Westerns in the sound era and has a legendary cast including He... Read more »

In a chic lakeside Waldviertel mansion, identical twins Lukas and Elias play with pet cockroaches and amble among their mother’s modernist furniture an... Read more »

One of the most pervasive problems with America getting to grips with its history of racial inequality has been that its white population see themselves as h... Read more »