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 ReleasesBorat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Sacha Baron Cohen returns with another askance look at America from the point of view of the idiotic Kazakhstani reporter Borat. The resulting satire is often sharp and explosive, but there are some misfires too Read more »| 26 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesSummer of 85
François Ozon's latest, a melodrama following a gay teen romance that blossoms during an idyllic summer on the French coast, has plenty of surface pleasures, but at times it feels about as substantial as an 80s pop promo Read more »| 19 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesBody of Water
Scottish director Lucy Brydon makes her feature film debut with this bleak, ambiguous film following a middle-aged woman with an eating disorder Read more »| 12 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesSaint Maud
Horror film Saint Maud, the gut-churning debut from British writer-director Rose Glass, takes us inside the mind of a pious care nurse with a messiah complex Read more »| 07 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesOn the Rocks
Bill Murray and Rashida Jones are endlessly charming as a father and daughter bonding while snooping on the daughter's potentially cheating husband Read more »| 28 Sep 2020 -
New ReleasesEnd of the Century
Two men meet in Barcelona, have sex, eat, chat, and then start to wonder if they've met before in this beguiling debut feature from Argentine director Lucio Castro, which feels like all three parts of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy rolled into one Read more »| 15 Apr 2020
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New ReleasesMoffie
Oliver Hermanus' South African gay military drama offers a flawed theory of masculine hatred Read more »| 14 Apr 2020 -
New ReleasesThe Invisible Man
Available to rent early due to its premature departure from cinemas amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Leigh Whannell's take on this classic story is deeply satisfying, despite the odd flaw Read more »| 26 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesResin
New Zealand-born, Denmark-based director Daniel Joseph Borgman returns with Resin, a lyrical family story that morphs into a dark thriller Read more »| 12 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesBacurau
Bacurau raises unanswered questions around gun violence and race – but it's so insane that it hardly matters Read more »| 12 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesAnd Then We Danced
The tinderbox of Georgia's conservative society is the backdrop for this coming-of-age romance about a young male dancer exploring same-sex desires within the strict Georgian folk dance community Read more »| 09 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesPromising Young Woman
This rape-revenge thriller for the #MeToo era is bracing and funny, and centred on a knockout turn from Carey Mulligan, but it falls at the final hurdle with a winking ending that attempts to be both downbeat and crowd-pleasing Read more »| 06 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesThe Perfect Candidate
Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour is back on form with The Perfect Candidate, a pointed critique of her country's endemic social misogyny and the way it works to police women’s behaviour Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesRunning to the Sky
Empathetic and mature coming-of-age film from Heavenly Nomadic director Mirlan Abdykalykov Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesDriveways
Understated but emotional drama from Spa Night director Andrew Ahn, centred on an elegant cross-generational friendship that forms between a Korean War veteran and a Korean-American boy Read more »| 03 Mar 2020