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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New Releases
EO
Veteran filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski returns with a beautiful and playful new work concerned with a humble donkey's journey across Europe Read more »| 31 Jan 2023 -
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras turns her focus on transgressive photographer Nan Goldin, delving into her life, art and the roots of her activism Read more »| 24 Jan 2023 -
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Holy Spider
Borders director Ali Abbasi's new thriller explores the spate of faith-driven murders of sex workers that took place in Iran in the early 00s. Its depiction of the violence is chilling, but it also relies on the sensationalism of the violence it critiques Read more »| 17 Jan 2023 -
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Enys Men
Undeniably eerie and packed with symbolism, the ghosts of Enys Men's cut-off setting will keep the audience keenly watching, in a film with few material exchanges between unnamed characters Read more »| 10 Jan 2023 -
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Tár
Cate Blanchett gives one of the performances of her career as a world-renowned conductor, a musical genius, and a monster you can't take your eyes off Read more »| 04 Jan 2023 -
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Corsage
Vicky Krieps is endlessly watchable as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, pushing back against the constraints of royal life, in Marie Kreutzer's innovative Corsage Read more »| 19 Dec 2022
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Lynch/Oz
Alexandre O. Philippe is back with another documentary that gets obsessive over a piece of filmmaking. In this case, he's exploring the connective tissue between David Lynch and The Wizard of Oz Read more »| 29 Nov 2022 -
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Goodbye, Don Glees!
Three childhood friends go on a summer adventure in Atsuko Ishizuka’s sweet coming-of-age tale reminiscent of Stand By Me and the films of Makoto Shinkai Read more »| 28 Nov 2022 -
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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Two lovers are cursed by an evil eye in this witty and inventive modern fairytale set in the sun-dappled Georgian city of Kutaisi Read more »| 21 Nov 2022 -
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No Bears
With No Bears, the great Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a typically witty and inventive film full of empathy, but a note of disillusionment is creeping in Read more »| 08 Nov 2022 -
Festivals
Mandibles
Quentin Dupeuix is back and on surreal form with Mandibles, which begins as an inescapably kooky buddy-comedy but blossoms brilliantly into a humanistic celebration of friendship Read more »| 04 Nov 2022 -
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Something in the Dirt
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are back with another exercise in reality manipulation Read more »| 01 Nov 2022 -
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Bros
An inclusive cast doesn't change the fact that Bros is just another Hollywood product designed to sell as many tickets as possible – and Billy Eichner's attempts to subvert expectations make that all the more grating Read more »| 28 Oct 2022 -
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LFF 2022: Living
This remake of Akira Kurosawa's meaning-of-life classic Ikiru has wonderful elements – Bill Nighy's performance, Jamie Ramsay's cinematography – but it's let down by its lacklustre final act Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
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Women Talking
Sarah Polley returns with an uncompromising drama in which a group of women discuss the endemic sexual violence within their Mennonite religious colony. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley are among the excellent cast Read more »| 25 Oct 2022