The Skin I Live In Reviews

Movie Reviews

• to serve as much for laughs as for dramatic heft

  by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]

• this is as visually and sonically gorgeous as anything the filmmaker has ever done

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• the film's content with beautiful settings and excellent narrative flow

  by Eric Eisenberg [Cinema Blend ]

• taking a good deal of its running time to supply all of the backstory necessary to fully understand its first string of images, The Skin I Live In ends with no plot hole left unfilled

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• not just fireproof but near impenetrable

  by David Edelstein [New York Magazine ]

• never quite gets across the internal torment of this emotionally stunted psychopath

  by Dana Stevens [Slate ]

• it's great to see a horror movie that isn't aimed at the "Saw'' crowd

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• is not as it seems in this gender-bending thriller

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• is a sort of artistic summing up. And a richly overstuffed melodrama

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• feels too superficial, but that's unfortunately the case here

  by Christy Lemire [Associated Press ]

• especially, is unnecessarily confusing

  Review rate : B+ by Peter Rainer [Christian Science Monitor ]

• but nothing more than a derivative horror movie about plastic surgery

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• a generally quiet, fully composed performance that only grows more noteworthy in hindsight

  Review rate : B+ by William Goss [Film.com ]

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