New Releases
Here you will find an in-depth guide to new films. The Skinny offers synopsis and reviews of the latest film releases.
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Arabian Nights
Miguel Gomes's three-part remix of Scheherezade’s classic tales explores a contemporary Portugal post-financial crash Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
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How to Win Enemies
Meta mystery movie from Argentina that looses its charm in its final act Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
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The Road to Civil War: Marvel Renaissance
Documentary charting the rise and fall of Marvel comics Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
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Louder Than Bombs
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's first English-language film centres on a family trying to cope with the loss of their mother. Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
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War on Everyone
Irish filmmaker John Michael McDonagh delivers a politically incorrect cop movie that has one inspired performance but no discernible plot Read more »| 13 Feb 2016 -
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Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols delivers an intelligent piece of blockbuster filmmaking with Midnight Special, mixing super-powers with a thought-provoking family drama about f... Read more »| 13 Feb 2016
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Mavis!
Documentary on the life of legendary soul singer Mavis Staples Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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Hail, Caesar!
The glamour and prestige of Golden-era Hollywood may be a thing of the past, but its mythology lives on in the Coen Brothers’ riotous new comedy Hail, ... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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Bone Tomahawk
A violent and beautifully performed western from an impressive new voice in American filmmaking Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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High-Rise
Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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James White
Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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11 Minutes
Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski delivers a dazzling multi-strand thriller concerned with chance and chaos Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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Deadpool
Despite a lot of its meta gags falling flat, giddy lead Ryan Reynolds makes Deadpool's immature fuckery work Sometimes the right actor can single-handedly s... Read more »| 10 Feb 2016 -
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No Home Movie
The final film from Belgian innovator Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal documentary about her own mother. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
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The Green Inferno
The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s gleefully grim cannibal tribe exploitation movie, is fun... up to a point While The Green Inferno is unlikely to co... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016