Thinc Film

I wandered into An Elephant Sitting Still at a point I was feeling particularly low, after an unproductive day spent alone trying here...

The first feature for any director is a special thing, but it is also often highlighted as one of the utmost achievements in filmmaking....

As the lights came on after Here For Life (2019) last week, a wash of cast (more, subjects or protagonists, as the film’s a documentary)...

On exiting the screening of The Last Man in San Francisco my brother and I had hugely different reactions. He was hugely emotionally...

Roberto Minervini’s fifth feature, and third documentary, presents its viewers with numerous intimate portraits of the Black experience...

As these s(t)imulated emotions are directly related to entertainment cinema, why do they exist in a film sold on different values?

Loveless, like any of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s films, is by no means an easy watch. It tests you emotionally, empathetically, attentionally...

Although I watched this film nearly a month ago a specific moment continually springs to mind, however, unlike many films in the genre,...

Sitting down at my hostel dining table in Portland to begin this article, moments after walking out of the theatre, I look to my left and...

I have said it before a number of times; ‘family films’ which I have seen during my turn into adulthood have always underwhelmed me but...

The film ends with a question; “How can we truly utilize cinema”—posing a question not of how we can use it in our everyday but how we...

Play is one of those rare experiences that reveals it’s bold message and mastery in hindsight, but while you are in it you feel extreme...

Often when I enter a gallery or am confronted by a piece of visual art I am confronted by a feeling of intriguing incomprehension, but as...

Hong Sang-soo is a fascinating filmmaker, his style is so strongly defined by a lack of devices and manipulation, devoting himself...

“Aren’t you acting for the camera now?” Kiarostami asks Hossain Sabzian, an attempted fraudster posing as famed Iranian director Mohsen...

[Slight spoiler warning; found throughout] Ruben Östlund’s The Square presents us with quite a clear central message; do we, and to what...

This film is phenomenal for a number of reasons; its amazing cinematography from Roger Deakins, its fantastic performances especially...

About a third into Coco and I find myself watching closely, but bored. The story and sleek but fantastical animation, like most Pixar...

Countless artworks will never reach our senses, given up on, unreleased or unfinished in the creator’s time. Once discovered should we...