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 ReleasesHigh Flying Bird
Netflix's High Flying Bird is an inside-basketball drama inventively shot by Steven Soderbergh on the iPhone, and it's a sports movie unlike any that have come before Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesBerlinale 2019: Knives and Skin
You've never seen a coming-of-age film quite like Jennifer Reeder's wild and imaginative teen movie Knives and Skin Read more »| 13 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesMid90s
Jonah Hill becomes the latest Hollywood star to move behind the camera with Mid90s; a coming of age film centred on a 13-year-old boy who falls in with an LA skate gang, it's an impressive and stylish directorial debut Read more »| 13 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesIf Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s heartbreaking novel about a young black couple separated by a false arrest, and the Moonlight director beautifully captures the romantic, yearning, angry, incisive tones of Baldwin’s voice Read more »| 06 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesCan You Ever Forgive Me?
Melissa McCarthy shines in this whip-smart tale of real-life writer Lee Israel, and how she found her voice as a literary forger Read more »| 02 Feb 2019 -
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Burning
Lee Chang-dong's Burning begins like a meet-cute rom-com and morphs to a potboiler thriller, but there's something much more disturbing simmering underneath Read more »| 29 Jan 2019
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New ReleasesGlass
Samuel L. Jackson makes for a mesmerising supervillain, and there's a pleasing physicality to Glass's superhero showdowns, but Shyamalan just can't help himself when it comes to convoluted dialogue and eye-rolling twists Read more »| 18 Jan 2019 -
New ReleasesBeautiful Boy
Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet are both outstanding in this profoundly moving story of a young man dealing with addiction Read more »| 15 Jan 2019 -
New ReleasesMary Queen of Scots
Ronan and Robbie are knockout, but their bold, sensitive performances as somewhat hindered by structural and pacing issues Read more »| 14 Jan 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Favourite
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman deliver career-best performances in Yorgos Lanthimos' most accessible – and entertaining – film yet Read more »| 08 Jan 2019 -
New ReleasesThe House That Jack Built
Is aging enfant terrible Lars von Trier trolling us with serial killer flick The House That Jack Built? Or is he trying to purge something ugly from deep within himself? Maybe it's both... Read more »| 10 Dec 2018 -
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Sorry to Bother You
Inventive visual flights of fancy combine with a righteous anger at systemic injustice in Boots Riley's brilliant, absurdist satire Sorry to Bother You Read more »| 06 Dec 2018 -
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White Boy Rick
The rise and fall of teen drug dealer Rick Wershe Jr is explored in White Boy Rick, the new film from Yann Demange. It looks great, but unfortunately lacks the intensity of Demange's previous film, Belfast thriller ’71 Read more »| 06 Dec 2018 -
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The Old Man & the Gun
Robert Redford stars as an elderly bank robber who refuses to retire in David Lowery's delightful The Old Man & the Gun Read more »| 06 Dec 2018 -
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Creed II
Creed II is a winner, but it can't match the succession of devastating blows delivered by Ryan Coogler’s original film Read more »| 29 Nov 2018