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
The Banshees of Inisherin
In Martin McDonagh's new study of male loneliness, two lifelong friends fall out on a fictional island in Ireland. The result is a black comedy brimming with melancholy Read more »| 13 Oct 2022 -
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Triangle of Sadness
The fashion industry, social media and late-stage capitalism are among the targets of this wild satire from Swedish director Ruben Östlund Read more »| 12 Oct 2022 -
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Alcarràs
Alcarràs, Carla Simón's Golden Bear winner, is a powerful and nostalgic portrait of a family of peach farmers in rural Catalonia Read more »| 07 Oct 2022 -
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LFF 2022: The Eternal Daughter
Two Tilda Swintons for the price of one in Joanna Hogg's curious ghost story, centering on Swinton playing a mother and daughter struggling to find a connection Read more »| 07 Oct 2022 -
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After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
Bertrand Mandico's queer psychedelic space oddity imagines a post-apocalyptic world with no men, where a teenager has one mission: kill Kate Bush Read more »| 03 Oct 2022 -
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In Front of Your Face
Hong Sang-soo keeps developing a simple, beautiful cinema whose greatness and deepness lies in the smallest details Read more »| 20 Sep 2022
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After Yang
After Yang, Kogonada's followup to Columbus, is a metaphysical sci-fi that feels its way through the complex heartbreak and revelation of memory with a beautifully human touch Read more »| 20 Sep 2022 -
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Saint Omer
Alice Diop's debut fiction feature Saint Omer is a haunting courtroom drama based on the real-life story of a young Senegalese Frenchwoman accused of murdering her infant Read more »| 12 Sep 2022 -
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EIFF 2022: The Score
The Score is a musical but only by definition. From Johnny Flynn's suitably humble soundtrack to the humdrum roadside cafe setting, it swaps Hollywood glamour for a subdued sweetness Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
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Venice Film Festival 2022: Athena
Romain Gavras’ bravura third feature, Athena, is an incendiary exploration of police brutality in the Paris banlieues Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
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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