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 ReleasesElysium
South Africa-set District 9 had a clear apartheid allegory built into its hyper-violent sci-fi stylings, and writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
New Releases2 Guns
Fresh from chilling audiences to the core with austere true-life drama The Deep, director Baltasar Kormákur turns up the heat and lays on the froth in... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
New ReleasesWhat Maisie Knew
An adaption of Henry James’s 19th-century novel of the same name, What Maisie Knew has undergone modernising alterations but retains the same pitiable ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
New ReleasesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ feminist novel Foxfire might seem like an unlikely choice for Laurent Cantet, but the material actually feels like ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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The Lone Ranger
Bloated, hubristic and an awkward mish-mash of wildly conflicting tones, it’s easy to see why US critics lined-up to give Gore Verbinski’s The Lo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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Only God Forgives
While it’s the success of Drive that will stoke most interest in this director/star reunion (drenched like its forebear in slick neon, and with Ryan Go... Read more »| 02 Aug 2013
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Serial Mom
Beverly Sutphin is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and “f*cking nuts!” Queer cinema hero John Waters’ deliriously dark slice of seria... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
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Paradise: Hope
The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is the most heartfelt and uplifting of the three, which comes as both a surprise and a blessed relief... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
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From Up on Poppy Hill
It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
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Citadel
With ominous guitar chords, piercing shrieks and howls featuring heavily throughout, Citadel is uncomfortable viewing at the best of times. The film opens wi... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
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Frances Ha
Frances (Gerwig) is in freefall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no per... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
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Pacific Rim
Fantasy man Guillermo del Toro’s latest, Pacific Rim, is a large-scale love letter to Japanese sci-fi, but also an accessible blockbuster imbued w... Read more »| 11 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: The Complex (Kuroyuri danchi)
Once a feted pioneer of the horror genre (thanks primarily to Ringu’s ground-breaking success), a series of missteps has since seen Hideo Nakata’... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Bizarre doesn’t begin to cover Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari’s collection of wild and weird vignettes, filmed on location with the Mari peop... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Consequence (Gegenwart)
Despite its English title, a sense of consequence – indeed, causality of any kind – is absent from German director Thomas Heise’s subtle do... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013