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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Bring Her Back
Anchored by a monumental Sally Hawkins performance, Bring Her Back bypasses the supernatural lore to give audiences the frights of their lives Read more »| 30 Jul 2025 -
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KVIFF 2025: Rebuilding
Josh O'Connor is excellent as a downtrodden rancher who lost everything in a wildfire, but elsewhere this portrait of community and resilience is sentimental and thinly sketched Read more »| 16 Jul 2025 -
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Harvest
There are wonderful visual flourishes in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s atmospheric Harvest, but they never cohere into a satisfying narrative Read more »| 14 Jul 2025 -
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KVIFF 2025: Broken Voices
A young singer is groomed by her charismatic choirmaster in this gut-wrenching tale of abuse based on a real-life scandal at a Czech children's choir Read more »| 14 Jul 2025 -
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KVIFF 2025: Out of Love
Call My Agent's Camille Cottin is superb in this nuanced French drama about a middle-aged woman who's suddenly charged with the care of her niece and nephew when her sister walks out on her life Read more »| 10 Jul 2025 -
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KVIFF 2025: The Luminous Life
There are definite shades of Eric Rohmer in this mellow romance set in a balmy Lisbon, featuring young people who love to talk and fall too easily in love Read more »| 08 Jul 2025
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Pavements
Alex Ross Perry gives us an often absurd celebration of anti-icons Pavement, and in his film's refusal to be a straightforward biopic, it's a perfect match for the band's sardonic sensibility Read more »| 08 Jul 2025 -
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The Other Way Around
The Spanish 'anti-rom-com' The Other Way Around has a sharp idea at its core, but its repetitive nature makes it a chore to get through Read more »| 08 Jul 2025 -
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Are you a fan of Mamoru Hosoda's hit anime films like Belle and Mirai? Then check out The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, his first great feature, as it returns to cinemas on a welcome rerelease Read more »| 02 Jul 2025 -
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Hot Milk
Fiona Shaw is excellent, but there's little else to recommend in this limp adaptation of Deborah Levy's 2016 novel Read more »| 01 Jul 2025 -
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The Shrouds
David Cronenberg explores the burials of the future in a personal, nightmarish meditation on tech and flesh in new film The Shrouds Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
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Tornado
The second film from John Maclean has an austere beauty and a unique premise – it's a samurai movie set in 1890s Scotland – but its lean script needs more flesh on its bones Read more »| 10 Jun 2025 -
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Bogancloch
Ben Rivers returns to the Aberdeenshire wilderness for another film centred on Jake Williams, the reclusive subject of his 2011 poetic documentary Two Years at Sea. The result is a similarly haunting film brimming with transcendent imagery Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
Edinburgh Fringe royalty Tim Key and Tom Basden turn their promising 2007 short into an intimate, bittersweet gem of a movie Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
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Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps
The first four and a half hours of Louise Weard’s towering two-parter is a triumph in no-budget filmmaking. Through her camcorder, the director has captured an anthology of gender troubles as textured and grainy as its central characters Read more »| 22 May 2025