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Rachel Bowles

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Teenage Superstars (2017) 4/5 EDIT “A must-see for anyone interested in hearing how a group of teenagers with DIY haircuts and no prospects changed the world for the better.” – The Skinny Jul 3, 2017 Full Review England Is Mine (2017) 54% 3/5 EDIT “England Is Mine is an entertaining watch, funny and tragic, and particularly enjoyable for Morrissey's relationships with the strong women in his life.” – The Skinny Jul 2, 2017 Full Review The Other Side of Hope (2017) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Hope bares all Kaurismki's trademark fingerprints: a vintage colour palette; a technophobic 21st century setting; deadpan humour; still, single-shot scenes.” – The Skinny May 17, 2017 Full Review Berlin Syndrome (2017) 74% 4/5 EDIT “A gruelling but formally beautiful kidnap thriller from Australian auteur Cate Shortland.” – The Skinny Mar 1, 2017 Full Review Louise by the Shore (2016) 4/5 EDIT “Louise...'s apparent slightness is made up for by its ability to haunt the viewer long after the credits roll.” – The Skinny Feb 20, 2017 Full Review Jet Trash (2016) 67% 4/5 EDIT “A fast-paced and gripping crime thriller propelled by fine performances throughout.” – The Skinny Dec 5, 2016 Full Review Nocturnal Animals (2016) 74% 2/5 EDIT “This narrative has serious Southern Gothic potential, but Nocturnal Animals sadly adds up to little more than a conservative morality ad.” – The Skinny Nov 4, 2016 Full Review Messi (2015) 4/5 EDIT “Iglesia sets most of the action in a restaurant, showing that half of the joy of watching the beautiful game is to passionately debate and dissect with others over alcohol and food.” – The Skinny Aug 3, 2016 Full Review The White King (2016) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Why does The White King, though undeniably topical, dramatic and moving enough during its running time, not feel at all urgent or pressing?” – The Skinny Jun 22, 2016 Full Review The Love Witch (2016) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Nothing less than a tour de force of 21st century queer, feminist film.” – The Skinny Jun 19, 2016 Full Review Journey to the Shore (2015) 54% 4/5 EDIT “Kurosawa manages to render his canonical obsessions of haunting, mourning and existentialism with deft, sublime cinematography.” – The Skinny Jun 1, 2016 Full Review Audition (1999) 81% 5/5 EDIT “With escalating unease and a switch and bait that Hitchcock would be proud of, Audition culminates in its infamously disturbing dnouement.” – The Skinny Mar 1, 2016 Full Review Urban Hymn (2015) 58% 3/5 EDIT “Urban Hymn's strength lies in its strong female leads, particularly Laughland's visceral turn as the volatile Leanne.” – The Skinny Feb 29, 2016 Full Review I Am Belfast (2016) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Cousins is the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur that a city as traumatised and as beautiful as Belfast deserves.” – The Skinny Feb 23, 2016 Full Review Evolution (2015) 83% 5/5 EDIT “Fittingly uneasy... a queer science fiction body horror in the vein of Lovecraft and Cronenberg.” – The Skinny Feb 16, 2016 Full Review Chemsex (2015) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Chemsex is a must see 'issues' film, which will hopefully serve to increase awareness about those who suffer with the dark side of this sociological phenomenon.” – The Skinny Nov 23, 2015 Full Review Take Me to the River (2015) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Take Me to the River manages to maintain suspense for its entire 84 minutes, juggling comedy, dread, horror and tragedy, while never losing its naturalistic style.” – The Skinny Oct 20, 2015 Full Review My Skinny Sister (2015) 96% 3/5 EDIT “My Skinny Sister conveys one of the most accurate portrayals of bulimia on screen.” – The Skinny Oct 20, 2015 Full Review Yakuza Apocalypse (2015) 62% 2/5 EDIT “If you want to enjoy Yakuza Apocalypse for its snippets of inspiration, we suggest a Baudrillardian form of watching: flick it on and off between late night channel hopping.” – The Skinny Oct 20, 2015 Full Review Marshland (2014) 91% 5/5 EDIT “Rodrguez captures this suffocating and inescapably corrupt world through a noirish, gothic cinematography.” – The Skinny Aug 7, 2015 Full Review Difret (2014) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Difret is concerned with Ethiopian feminism in both method and narrative.” – The Skinny Jun 24, 2015 Full Review Dr. Jekyll and His Women (1981) 3/5 EDIT “Something between a lurid giallo and proto-New French Extremism, 20 years before the genre's inception.” – The Skinny Jun 3, 2015 Full Review The Samurai (2014) 100% 5/5 EDIT “A lucid haze of sex and violence, compellingly offbeat and irrevocably Other.” – The Skinny Apr 8, 2015 Full Review 52 Tuesdays (2013) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The film represents queer characters as fully human - selfish, virtuous, mundane; suffering the micro-aggressions of heteronormativity.” – The Skinny Mar 19, 2015 Full Review 13 Sins (2014) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Flimsy plot withstanding, 13 Sins is an enjoyable watch and fits neatly into the ever expanding genre of film as theme park ride: thrilling, shocking, forgettable.” – The Skinny Jul 2, 2014 Full Review
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