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 ReleasesAfter 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 -
New ReleasesIn 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 -
New ReleasesAfter 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 -
New ReleasesSaint 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 -
New ReleasesEIFF 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 -
New ReleasesVenice 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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New ReleasesBones 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 -
New ReleasesEIFF 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 -
New ReleasesWhite 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 -
FestivalsEIFF 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 -
New ReleasesEIFF 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 -
New ReleasesEIFF 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 -
New ReleasesEIFF 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 -
New ReleasesMr 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 -
New ReleasesGlasgow 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