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 ReleasesMartha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin’s astonishingly assured debut as writer/director is a haunting meditation on identity, manipulation and abuse. Martha (Olsen), long-since a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesCarnage
Roman Polanski's classy farce centres on the petty squabbles of four bourgeois Manhattanites. Following an attack on the Longstreets' (Foster, Reilly) son by... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesYoung Adult
Young Adult is the second collaboration between the creative team behind Juno, and it again displays both their strengths and their weaknesses. Jason Reitman... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesThe Descendants
Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) directs his first film in seven years with this charming comedy. Matt King (Clooney), trustee to his extended family's v... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesJ. Edgar
Few public figures have remained as enigmatic and elusive as J. Edgar Hoover, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Clint Eastwood's sluggish biopic fail... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
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Haywire
Haywire is the kind of lucid thriller Paul Greengrass might make if he ever invested in a tripod. Breakneck action with graceful, but nasty, fight sequences ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2012
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War Horse
Steven Spielberg always seemed like the perfect director to bring War Horse to the screen, and his version of the stage play, adapted from Michael Morpurgo's... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
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Shame
Shame is a film about addiction, but what separates it from other movies on this subject is that the drug for Brandon (Fassbender) is sex. He gets his fix an... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
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Goon
Ice hockey flicks usually export as unsuccessfully as baseball analogies, armoured rugby and the thought of having to pay for your healthcare. But Goon, insp... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
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The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep, wearing what looks to be Jennifer Saunders’ prosthetics from that Absolutely Fabulous episode set in the future, is Baroness Thatcher. It... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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The Artist
It's hard to imagine more of a guaranteed crowdpleaser than The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius' stupendously entertaining homage to silent cinema, which is like... Read more »| 16 Dec 2011 -
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Dreams of a Life
On 25 January, 2006, the remains of Joyce Vincent, a 38-year-old former secretary, were found slumped on the couch of her London flat, the telly still blarin... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
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Puss in Boots
Shrek's killer kitty spins off into his own fairytale franchise in Dreamworks' Puss in Boots. Antonio Banderas lends his dulcet tones to the feline hero who ... Read more »| 05 Dec 2011 -
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Another Earth
Another Earth sets the momentous event of another planet, identical to our own, looming into view as a backdrop for the personal, introspective tale of a you... Read more »| 02 Dec 2011 -
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We Have a Pope
There's so much rich comic and dramatic potential in Nanni Moretti's new film that it is simply dismaying to see how wide of the mark it consistent... Read more »| 01 Dec 2011