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 ReleasesThe Cabin in the Woods
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s deliriously entertaining homage to horror cinema takes a format as old as the hills – teens run into trouble at a ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2012 -
New ReleasesDamsels in Distress
Chief damsel in Whit Stillman’s long awaited filmmaking return following some Malickesque downtime is Violet (Gerwig), an aggressively altruistic ... Read more »| 09 Apr 2012 -
New ReleasesThis Must Be the Place
The most satisfying thing about This Must Be the Place is that it proves that, even after three decades of remarkable performances, Sean Penn still has the c... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
New ReleasesLe Havre
Le Havre is Aki Kaurismäki's first film made in France since 1992's La vie de bohème, and it acts as a kind of loose sequel to that picture,... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
New ReleasesJohn Carter
Let me tell you a story about a man with the initials JC. True of heart, he came from the heavens and used his superhuman powers to unite a humble people, gi... Read more »| 09 Mar 2012 -
New ReleasesTintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
The cinema release of Spielberg's Tintin was met with predictable howls of outrage from certain quarters - mostly middle-aged, male Guardian writers - for wh... Read more »| 02 Mar 2012
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New ReleasesA Dangerous Method
Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) sh... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
New ReleasesThe Muppets
Old-fashioned dastardly danger is threatening the, now abandoned, Muppet studios as a maniacally laughing oil tycoon (Chris Cooper) looks set to plunder the ... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
New ReleasesBombay Beach
After an outstanding festival journey, a Tribeca World Documentary Award, and praise from Alec Baldwin, music video director Alma Har'el's debut feature Bomb... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
New ReleasesMartha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin’s astonishingly assured debut as writer/director is a haunting meditation on identity, manipulation and abuse. Martha (Olsen), long-since a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesCarnage
Roman Polanski's classy farce centres on the petty squabbles of four bourgeois Manhattanites. Following an attack on the Longstreets' (Foster, Reilly) son by... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesYoung Adult
Young Adult is the second collaboration between the creative team behind Juno, and it again displays both their strengths and their weaknesses. Jason Reitman... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesThe Descendants
Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) directs his first film in seven years with this charming comedy. Matt King (Clooney), trustee to his extended family's v... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesJ. Edgar
Few public figures have remained as enigmatic and elusive as J. Edgar Hoover, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Clint Eastwood's sluggish biopic fail... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesHaywire
Haywire is the kind of lucid thriller Paul Greengrass might make if he ever invested in a tripod. Breakneck action with graceful, but nasty, fight sequences ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2012