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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EIFF 2015: Love & Mercy
Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Last Days in the Desert
White people fannying about reenacting scripture should, on paper, be testing the boundaries of taste. But Last Days in the Desert is so pared down, so sure ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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Slow West
There’s a steely confidence to John Maclean’s debut feature, a lyrical fairytale in which a doe-eyed Scottish teen (Smit-McPhee) treks west in se... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Hellions
Hellions is like chewing gum: it begins promisingly enough, with a genuine sense of foreboding and serviceable performances from the lead (Chloe Rose as teen... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Cop Car
Jon Watts’ lean Cop Car has a simple title and a simple premise. Needless complications aren’t piled onto proceedings and the film’s all th... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Maggie
After decades of zombies being used for satirical commentary, a new wave of films seems concerned with heavy exploration of the emotional undercurrent of lov... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015
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EIFF 2015: The Chambermaid Lynn (Das Zimmermädchen Lynn)
Writer-director Ingo Haeb observes his film's eponymous character in much the same way as she views the world and the people around her: distant, chilly, alm... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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45 Years
There’s a ghost in the attic in Andrew Haigh’s haunting relationship drama 45 Years, but not the kind that can be vanquished with a séance... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: She's Funny That Way
Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment
The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Sleeping with Other People
It’s hard to settle on a low point of this scumbag manifesto from writer-director Leslye Headland, but one scene in particular springs to mind. It invo... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Amy
Prior interest in the life, music and untimely passing of Amy Winehouse is not required for Asif Kapadia’s second documentary to floor you completely. ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
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First Look: Director Justin Kurzel introduces a new Macbeth
The director of bracing serial killer chiller Snowtown visits Edinburgh's Cameo cinema to talk about his impressive upcoming Shakespeare adaptation Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
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Jurassic World
In one early sequence of Jurassic World, the apathetic older brother (Nick Robinson) of a pair of kids visiting the now fully-functional dinosaur theme park ... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015