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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The Kindergarten Teacher
In Sara Colangelo’s Sundance award-winner, she gives us an unnerving take on the mid-life crisis Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: Vox Lux
Brady Corbet's sophomore feature is as confident and ambitious as his brilliant debut The Childhood of a Leader, but it's thrown off course by Natalie Portman's shallow performance as a cynical pop star Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss delivers a tour-de-force performance in this unruly punk epic about a 90s riot grrrl coming apart at the seams, and intent on taking her entourage down with her Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: Benjamin
Simon Amstell's Benjamin is a breathtakingly sincere romance that should be admired and cherished Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
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Beats
Based on Kieran Hurley's celebrated stage show, Beats takes us back to the dying embers of West Lothian's 90s illegal rave scene for a lively coming-of-age comedy-drama that's both euphoric and bittersweet Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: Everybody Knows
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is back with this Spain-set kidnapping drama starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Read more »| 01 Mar 2019
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GFF19: The Man Who Feels No Pain
Vasan Bala's Indian action-comedy The Man Who Feels No Pain riffs on 80s and 90s action films, not only referencing them but also recreating the feeling of watching them Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Lean and moody crime thriller set in an isolated militia bunker Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: Out of Blue
Carol Morley’s dreamlike noir is full of ambition, but never quite works despite a commendable effort from star Patricia Clarkson Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
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GFF19: Killing
Cult director Shin’ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) returns with this disappointing samurai movie. Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
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Genesis
French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Lesage follows up his knockout debut film The Demons with Genesis, a lyrical and imaginatively structured coming-of-age film concerned with three tender stories of young love Read more »| 27 Feb 2019 -
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GFF19: Dragged Across Concrete
Dragged Across Concrete is a sublime action flick – but Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn's right wing cops are not the heroes we need right now Read more »| 26 Feb 2019 -
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Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher’s drama about a village of peasant farmers cut off from society spills from poetic realism to dreamy fantasy to tell a spellbinding story that’s a potent allegory for the pervasive evils of modern capitalism Read more »| 26 Feb 2019 -
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GFF19: Eighth Grade
Adolescence is hell in this spiky but tender debut from US standup Bo Burnham, which follows a painfully awkward 13-year-old on her last few days of middle school, with high school looming Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
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GFF19: Fighting with My Family
Stephen Merchant's wrestling comedy Fighting With My Family sticks close to the underdog formula, but it's a formula that works well Read more »| 25 Feb 2019