Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 83 | Rotten: 16
Bold performances and sensitive, spot-on direction make watching this difficult tale of trauma and abuse a thought-provoking, resonant experience.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 3
Bold performances and sensitive, spot-on direction make watching this difficult tale of trauma and abuse a thought-provoking, resonant experience.
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Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on the same little league baseball team in a small Kansas town. One day, after a game, Brian blacks out after getting caught in a rainstorm, and five hours later he finds himself sitting in his basement
May 6, 2005 Limited
Oct 25, 2005
$0.5M
Tartan Films/TLA Releasing
All Critics (110) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (16) | DVD (15)
Araki's best film in a long time.
The audience has gotten the point roughly 90 minutes before the characters do.
Manages to deal with its raw, awful subject matter in ways that are both challenging and illuminating.
This is a challenging and ultimately moving film that deserves to find a like-minded audience.
The usual Araki elements are here (hustlers, rebels, uproar, the absurd), but now he appears to be working with focus and compassion.
While watching this movie, I scribbled the word 'whoa' five times into my notebook.
a bizarre, beguiling coming-of-age drama
treads harrowing ground without falling into the pit of cliché
"Mysterious Skin" is a devastating yet beautiful film that honors its fragile characters with vital respect.
Even with the numb dialogue and trite characterizations we've come to expect from Araki, Mysterious Skin might have worked with the right actor in the charismatic role of Neil.
This one clearly has more meat on the plate than Araki's earlier more shallow and sensationalistic films.
Gregg Araki nous offre son %u0153uvre la plus mature à ce jour.
Sensível e tristemente trágico, o filme é um doloroso estudo de personagens beneficiado por uma atuação estupenda de Gordon-Levitt.
Gordon-Levitt's performance is nothing short of astonishing.
This is Araki at his best. It is raw emotion, shown with dangerously careful eroticism, and true depth.
A raw and unadorned look at child abuse and its idiosyncratic repercussions.
For all the strange poetic beauty of this unsettling film, its single (but glaring) weakness is its obviousness.
Mysterious Skin has an interesting idea for its plot, and frankly is a pretty disturbing film. The film has an engaging story and a good cast. At the center of the film is Joseph Gordon Levitt in the role of Neil McCormick, who is a homosexual hustler and has had a dark childhood by being sexually assaulted by his
October 14, 2011
Super Reviewer
Honestly speaking, I did not expected what I have seen in this movie. I did not read the story line because I like surprise. I just look at the genre and that's it. But for this, I looked at the rating and saw this. It does happens in real life, yeah sad but true. But this is not my taste. It's very disturbing.
February 13, 2010
Super Reviewer
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