Skins: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 65 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 10 years ago
Dave Kehr New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Might have been better off as a documentary, with less of Mr. Eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

It bites hard.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Patchy combination of soap opera, low-tech magic realism and, at times, ploddingly sociological commentary.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Janice Page Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

For all its serious sense of purpose ... [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Holcomb Village Voice (Top Critic)

As social expose, Skins has its heart in the right place, but that's not much to hang a soap opera on.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Gary Dowell Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

59

It's a haunting indictment of a situation that has by and large been swept under the rug by Americans -- a stirring look at one man's impotent rage.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Denver Post (Top Critic)

63

For a location-made movie offering scenes and characters a refreshing world apart from the usual tinsel, Skins does its subject proud.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

To see this movie is to understand why the faces on Mount Rushmore are so painful and galling to the first Americans.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

Full Review » 10 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

Although mainstream American movies tend to exploit the familiar, every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn, to grow, to travel.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

Full Review » 10 years ago
David Rooney Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 3 years ago
Megan Turner New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Skins has a desolate air, but Eyre, a Native American raised by white parents, manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Duane Byrge Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Despite some harsh patterns, it's a stunningly warm tapestry of human beings struggling to endure despite all things.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

Skins is a wrenching, uncompromisingly bleak film, but its stars ... fill the screen with warmth, humor and spiritual yearning in the face of hardship and tragedy.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 2 years ago
Film Threat

30

Full Review » 6 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Glenn Kenny Premiere Magazine

Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

42

While most of the acting was good, some of it was amateurish.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com

80

Like Smoke Signals, the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bill Gallo Dallas Observer

Full Review » 9 years ago
Paul Malcolm L.A. Weekly

Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation.
Full Review » 9 years ago