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 ReleasesAnother Round
Four Copenhagen high-school teachers – one played by Mads Mikkelsen – try to escape their existential lethargy through a sustained alcoholic buzz in this compassionate study of everyday life from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesFreaky
Imagine if Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees had their hulking bodies switched with their petite teen victims. That's the delicious premise of this body-swap horror-comedy from the director of Happy Death Day Read more »| 21 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesIn The Earth
Ben Wheatley delivers one of the first satisfying films made in the COVID-era in this resourceful microbudget folk horror imbued with expansive wilderness and lockdown claustrophobia Read more »| 15 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesShiva Baby
Shiva Baby is a sexy, queer Jewish social nightmare that will give you second-hand embarrassment for days Read more »| 07 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Father
Anthony Hopkins' Oscar-winning performance is just one of the reasons to see this empathetic, unflinching, deeply humanising drama exploring dementia Read more »| 07 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesAfter Love
Joanna Scanlan gets a showcase for her considerable dramatic talents in After Love Read more »| 28 May 2021
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New ReleasesThe 8th
The 8th documents the fierce direct action and tireless campaigning that helped repeal Ireland’s notorious law prohibiting abortions Read more »| 24 May 2021 -
New ReleasesRare Beasts
Writer-director Billie Piper shows plenty of storytelling skill with her debut feature Rare Beasts, but its boundless energy can be exhausting Read more »| 17 May 2021 -
New ReleasesNomadland
Frances McDormand takes to the road in director Chloé Zhao's evocative adaptation of Jessica Bruder's book Read more »| 13 Apr 2021 -
New ReleasesSequin in a Blue Room
A gay 16-year-old lad with a passion for anonymous one night stands gets in hot water when one conquest doesn't take kindly to being pushed aside Read more »| 06 Apr 2021 -
New ReleasesSound of Metal
Darius Marder's directorial debut is a powerful depiction of deafness and Deaf culture, anchored by a searing performance from Riz Ahmed Read more »| 24 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Spring Blossom
Spring Blossom, from 20-year-old writer-director-star Suzanne Lindon, tells the story of a teen girl's infatuation with an older man. A young, female perspective on this subject is welcome and timely, but Lindon's film is ultimately unsuccessful Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Gunda
Victor Kossakovsky's Gunda invites us into the idyllic-seeming life of a massive pig and her brood of rambunctious piglets Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Dreams on Fire
Dance movie Dreams on Fire occasionally trades in clichés but thrives when working as an unapologetic examination of trying to make it in a precarious industry Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: A Brixton Tale
There's too much going on in this look at race and love in modern Britain, with A Brixton Tale’s enigmatic first half giving way to a more obvious socioeconomic crime narrative Read more »| 08 Mar 2021