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
Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino reteams with his Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet for a coming-of-age love story about two cannibalistic teens. Despite its YA tropes, it's a film rich in bruised longing and queer desires Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
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EIFF 2022: A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love
A purse-snatching leads to a spring-autumn romance in this curious German film exploring a middle-aged woman's sexual desire for a much younger man Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
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White Noise
Noah Baumbach takes on Don DeLillo’s darkly comic existential novel White Noise, but the film isn't an exercise in laughing at humanity. Baumbach and his cast, who include Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver, are laughing with it Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
Festivals
EIFF 2022: Kung Fu Zohra
Kung Fu Zohra sheds some much-needed light on womxn’s self-defence but too often the film uses comedy to diverge from the actualities of abusive relationships Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
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EIFF 2022: Three Times Nothing
Three homeless men win big on the lottery in this French comedy taking on the country's administration systems. The film's message gets lost, though, as the story descends into sentimentality Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
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EIFF 2022: My Small Land
Coming-of-age drama My Small Land explores the struggles of a Kurdish girl attending high school in Japan Read more »| 31 Aug 2022
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EIFF 2022: Black Mambas
Lena Karbe’s documentary explores issues of race, gender and class in South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
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Mr Malcolm's List
This riff on the regency romance can't quite replicate Jane Austen's rich characterisation, but nevertheless its fantastic cast makes Mr Malcolm's List undeniably satisfying Read more »| 22 Aug 2022 -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival returns for 2022
GYFF, the innovative festival curated by young people from Glasgow, returns with a mix of old films and mint fresh ones, such as the new comedic murder mystery See How They Run, which opens the festival Read more »| 18 Aug 2022 -
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Flux Gourmet
Peter Strickland returns with Flux Gourmet, which follows the clashes of ethos and egos between a band that make sonic soundscapes using food. The results are messy Read more »| 16 Aug 2022 -
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EIFF 2022: It Is in Us All
It Is in Us All offers a dark atmosphere that's well constructed, but its inconsistent narrative keeps the film from being an engaging experience Read more »| 15 Aug 2022 -
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Anaïs in Love
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's debut feature takes us inside a love triangle between a restless 20-something and an older couple Read more »| 15 Aug 2022 -
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Official Competition
An out-of-touch investor hires an eccentric director and two mismatched actors to adapt a book he hasn't read. Hilarity ensues Read more »| 13 Aug 2022 -
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Where Is Anne Frank
Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman retells the story of Anne Frank while connecting her plight to that of refugees in today's society, although sometimes the film gets tied in knots with its central magic realism device Read more »| 08 Aug 2022 -
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Hit the Road
Iranian director Panah Panahi explores the anxiety of his home nation through an irresistible road movie that's elegant, elegiac and defiantly open-hearted Read more »| 20 Jul 2022