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 ReleasesChevalier
Absurd buddy-comedy in which masculinity is tested Read more »| 18 Jul 2016 -
New ReleasesFinding Dory
Pixar's belated follow-up to Finding Nemo isn't as sharp, smart or funny as the films we've come to expect from the animation studio Since 1994, Disney have... Read more »| 15 Jul 2016 -
New ReleasesGhostbusters
Trolls have had their claws out for Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot since it went into production. Can the comic firepower of Melissa McCart... Read more »| 11 Jul 2016 -
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The Neon Demon
With The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn delves into the depraved world of the LA fashion industry, creating a film with a beautiful sheen and dark core "B... Read more »| 08 Jul 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Suntan
Suntan, the new film from director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, is firmly in the same mode of disturbing content and discomfort as other works from the so-call... Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
New ReleasesQueen of Earth
Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston star in Alex Ross Perry’s stylish psychological horror Queen of Earth Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston&nb... Read more »| 27 Jun 2016
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EIFF 2016: Little Sister
An ex-Goth nun helps rehabilitate her war-scarred brother in this spiky family comedy set at the dawn of Barack Obama’s presidency Read more »| 25 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Kids in Love
The only thing these kids, played by Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky, Jamie Blackley and Cara Delevingne, seem to be in love with is their own sense of entitlement Read more »| 22 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The White King
Agyness Deyn and Jonathan Pryce star in this dystopian fantasy that, in our current political climate, should feel more urgent Read more »| 22 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Yoga Hosers
Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp star in Kevin Smith's good-natured meta-comedy mess Yoga Hosers Relying on a host of sub-Austin Powers gags – in... Read more »| 21 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Brakes & The Library Suicides
Two very different world premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival: improvised breakup comedy Brakes and The Library Suicides, a bloody revenge thri... Read more »| 19 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Love Witch & Baba Yaga
EIFF are screening Anna Biller's modern take on the 70s sexploitation genre while in the festival's retrospective strand you'll find Corrado Farina's Baba Yaba, an example of the real thing Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Childhood of a Leader
Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham and Robert Pattinson star in Brady Corbet's operatic period drama centred on an unruly child Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore star in Rebecca Miller's offbeat romantic comedy Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer's beguiling debut, about a young female dance troupe who one-by-one experience mysterious seizures, is more audio-visual poem than traditional sports movie Read more »| 17 Jun 2016