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 ReleasesLFF 2018: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ben Wheatley’s partly-improvised family drama Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is funny and frenzied, but some of the huge cast get lost in the melee Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesMake Me Up
With Make Me Up, pop ironist Rachel Maclean invites us into another darkly hilarious world in which the candy-coloured computer generated images contrast sharply with the brutal satire within Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesTouch Me Not
Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not has good intentions, but what this chilly study of intimacy is lacking is, ironically, intimacy Read more »| 12 Oct 2018 -
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Mandy
Nicolas Cage delivers his most unhinged performance yet in Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy, and the results are highly pleasurable but drenched in artifice Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesFirst Man
Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in this technically accomplished biopic that ultimately fails to get off the ground Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesVenom
Tom Hardy can't save this toothless, incoherent Spider-Man spin-off Read more »| 03 Oct 2018
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TIFF 2018: Vox Lux
Natalie Portman plays a pop diva who experienced a school shooting in her teens in Brady Corbet's ambitious morality tale Read more »| 17 Sep 2018 -
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TIFF 2018: High Life
Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche star in Claire Denis' sensuous sci-fi that has to be seen to be believed Read more »| 13 Sep 2018 -
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Halloween
Michael Myers is back to haunt Laurie after 40 years, but in this sequel, Jamie Lee Curtis's character is no victim Read more »| 12 Sep 2018 -
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Lucky
Featuring the final performance from Harry Dean Stanton, John Carroll Lynch's quietly poignant western proves the perfect swan song for this enigmatic actor Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
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The Rider
Casting non-actors, Chloé Zhao creates a lyrical and authentic film about life as a rodeo cowboy Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
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A Star Is Born
Lady Gaga is truly immense in Bradley Cooper's adaptation of this classic story of love and fame, which glows with a poignant beauty Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
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The Wild Boys
Bertrand Mandico’s uninhibited, erotically-charged gender-bending romp The Wild Boys is a pleasingly surreal ride, but its sexual politics leave something to be desired Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
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Skate Kitchen
Crystal Moselle’s skateboarding drama featuring real-life skaters from New York is ostensibly a hangout movie, but also quietly revolutionary in how it naturalistically depicts female friendship Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
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American Animals
Bart Layton follows up his 2011 documentary The Imposter with American Animals, and this narrative film based on real-life events is as slippery as his previous feature Read more »| 06 Sep 2018