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 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
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New ReleasesGagarine
Urban fantasy Gagarine celebrates community and social housing in a Paris housing estate, with directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh using sci-fi imagery to turn the prosaic into the awe-inspiring Read more »| 04 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Sweetheart
A family holiday at a caravan park in Dorset is the setting for teen romance Sweetheart, where the comedy emanates from a light-hearted portrayal of authentic mundanity Read more »| 04 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesLimbo
Scottish filmmaker Ben Sharrock blends absurdist humour and deep pathos to tell the story of a group of refugees left adrift on a desolate Scottish island as they wait for their asylum claims to be slowly processed Read more »| 04 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesApples
In an uncanny version of Athens free from iPhones and where cassette tapes are still in vogue, a virus breaks out robbing citizens of their memories, leaving many to start relearning how to live again from scratch Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Eye of the Storm
Anthony Baxter (Flint, You've Been Trumped) follows the great Scottish painter James Morrison over the last two years of his life as he struggles with failing eyesight and poor health Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Shorta
There are shades of Walter Hill in this breathless police thriller, which is great when trading in cop movie clichés but less sure-footed when trying to address real-world concerns about institutional racism and police brutality Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Iorram (Boat Song)
Blending audio from the past and images of the present, Iorram's mosaic of everyday life, myth and folk song paints a compelling portrait of the tight-knit fishing communities of the Outer Hebrides Read more »| 01 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
Blending archival footage, diary extracts and voiceover interviews, I Am A Cliché celebrates the life and legacy of X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Black Bear
Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon are electric as the three leads in Lawrence Michael Levine's metadrama concerned with shifting identities and cruel power games Read more »| 26 Feb 2021