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 Batman
Batman has never been more tortured than in Matt Reeves's gritty and grounded version of the Caped Crusader, but an excellent cast and Se7en-esque detective yarn are buried beneath broody superhero excess Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesRed Rocket
Sean Baker returns with another tale from the fringes. In Red Rocket, his focus is a washed-up porn actor who's looking to get back on his feet Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesAli & Ava
The latest from Clio Barnard, the director of The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, follows two lonely, damaged souls as they begin a tender, tentative romance Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
New ReleasesFlee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen's documentary Flee uses animation to both help preserve the identity of its subject, an Afghan refugee living in Denmark, and as a way of expressing their loneliness and alienation Read more »| 08 Feb 2022 -
New ReleasesWheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy delivers three wry vignettes concerned with serendipitous connections that see lost souls making some sort of connection Read more »| 08 Feb 2022 -
New ReleasesBelle
Mamoru Hosoda's Belle is a lot: virtual reality fantasy, teen romance, mystery film, fairytale, celebrity satire, musical. Not all of it sticks, but the animation is so consistently breathtaking you'll forgive its unwieldiness Read more »| 02 Feb 2022
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New ReleasesNightmare Alley
The cast and sets are the main selling point in this thrillingly tawdry film noir from Guillermo del Toro Read more »| 18 Jan 2022 -
New ReleasesBoiling Point
Philip Barantini's one-shot thriller is a precise, anxious and feverish tale of one hectic night in a London restaurant Read more »| 16 Dec 2021 -
New ReleasesLamb
Noomi Rapace shepherds viewers through an atmospheric, chilling fairy tale of love and loss Read more »| 06 Dec 2021 -
New ReleasesPetite Maman
An eight-year-old girl meets her mother at the same age in this gorgeous and elegiac time-travel fairytale from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma Read more »| 16 Nov 2021 -
New ReleasesFriends and Strangers
James Vaughan’s comedy of manners Friends and Strangers is wonderfully awkward, strikingly shot and full of hilarious moments of social confusion Read more »| 08 Nov 2021 -
New ReleasesMemoria
The great Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is back with a collaboration with Tilda Swinton, who plays a woman trying to get to the bottom of a loud sound that only she can hear Read more »| 22 Oct 2021 -
New Releasesear for eye
Lashana Lynch stars in ear for eye, a damning account of racial injustice and the third feature from debbie tucker green Read more »| 22 Oct 2021 -
New ReleasesLFF 2021: True Things
Harry Wootliff's drama True Things follows the relationship that forms between a young woman who dreams of excitement and an ex-con who seduces her, but unfortunately only one of these characters is fully sketched out Read more »| 14 Oct 2021 -
New ReleasesA Hero
A Separation director Asghar Farhadi returns with another Catch-22 tale of ethical quagmire. The result is a pressure cooker of a social realist piece, and his most universal film yet Read more »| 14 Oct 2021