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 Releases
Scheme Birds
This lyrical documentary follows the life of an 18-year-old navigating the harsh truths of motherhood, relationships and violence in a deprived corner of Motherwell Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
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In Fabric
Peter Strickland continues to push at narrative conventions with this witty costume horror that's another extraordinarily rich and strange work from a unique filmmaker Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
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Robert the Bruce
Angus Macfadyen returns to the role he played 24 years ago in Mel Gibson's Braveheart with this stoic take on the Scottish freedom fighter that plays like a Celtic western Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
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Support the Girls
The Hooters-style bar setting of Andrew Bujalski's Support the Girls and its double entendre title prove a misdirect; this is an empathetic, refreshingly incisive portrait of women at work that's as funny as it is generous Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
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Memory: The Origins of Alien
78/52 director Alexandre O Philippe delves into the world of Ridley Scott's Alien – fanatics will find little new here, but this is an entertaining, informative companion to the 1979 sci-fi Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
Festivals
Farming
A young Nigerian boy farmed out to a white Tilbury family joins a gang of skinheads as a teenager in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s debut feature, Farming Read more »| 24 Jun 2019
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Bait
Mark Jenkin emerges as a distinctive new voice in British filmmaking with this innovatively shot and edited melodrama concerned with the class tensions bubbling over between the skint locals and the wealthy holidaymakers in a Cornwall fishing village Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
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Always Be My Maybe
Always Be My Maybe is held back from being the next great romantic comedy thanks to a lack of clarity in its overall design but, as a home stream that’s sweet, warm and light, it’s the perfect comfort food Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
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Varda by Agnès
The final film from French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda is touching, but there's little new to be gleaned from it Read more »| 22 Jun 2019 -
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Gwen
A gritty performance by Maxine Peake and richly bleak photography by Adam Etherington are more than enough to recommend folk horror Gwen Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
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Hurt by Paradise
Female friendship is at the heart of Greta Bellamacina's debut feature, although she sometimes lets her visual style get in the way of her charismatic characters Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
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Get Duked!
Eddie Izzard plays a murderous aristocrat tracking four working-class teens hiking in the Highlands in this wildly comic class satire from music video director Ninian Doff Read more »| 19 Jun 2019 -
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Toy Story 4
Slapstick humour, body horror and existential toy angst combine in this fourth adventure with Woody, Buzz and co Read more »| 17 Jun 2019 -
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We the Animals
A raw coming-of-age tale bristling with the rage, freedom and fear of adolescence Read more »| 05 Jun 2019 -
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Diego Maradona
Using the same archive-footage approach as his other tortured icon docs Amy and Senna, Asif Kapadia digs into the legacy of Argentine football hero Diego Maradona, exploring how his skills on the pitch made the world blind to his various demons off it Read more »| 04 Jun 2019