The Skin I Live In Reviews
We Got This Covered
Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, a terrific, twisty thriller that is one of the filmmaker's best and one of the year's best films.
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| Original Score: 9/10
TheShiznit.co.uk
A movie puzzle that confounds and then unnerves with an impact as shocking as any of the most infamous of cinema last-reel shockers
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| Original Score: 4/5
2UE That Movie Show
I was agonising over every twist and turn. I was shuffling in my seat. I was feeling physical reactions to the scenes and quite simply I was impressed with Banderas' strikingly nuanced performance under the incredible direction of Almodóvar.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
TheMovieReport.com
Leave it to Pedro Almodovar to figure a uniquely twisted way to unsettle.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Screenwize
With a deliberately preposterous storyline involving burning bodies, evil brothers, rape, suicide, revenge, sexual identity and medical procedure, this is darkly comic arthouse soap - with a tinge of horror - and definitely an acquired taste.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Flicks.co.nz
High-art pulp: brazenly kitschy, elegantly creepy, patently ludicrous.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Scene-Stealers.com
There are two iron wills in this movie. What's shocking is the lengths that each character goes to. A seriously campy tone almost undercuts the seriousness of the story, and it has its fair share of uncomfortable and shocking laughs.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Combustible Celluloid
With The Skin I Live In, Almodovar adopts a playfully wicked attitude, similar to the one James Whale used on Bride of Frankenstein.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Metropolis
Although snubbed by the Oscar machine, "The Skin I Live In" is a solid drama-thriller that offers the best contemporary take on the Frankenstein tale that I've seen in a long while.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Top Critic
Movie Habit
Almodóvar returns to his horror roots
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| Original Score: 4/4
Not since David Cronenberg have surgery, sex and violence frolicked in the same stained bed so skillfully.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Knight at the Movies
Almodovar has delivered another transformative work that finds his queer sensibility in high, thrilling gear.
Matt's Movie Reviews
This is a horror story only Almodovar could conjure. It's filled with his style of melodrama and love for the disenfranchised, not to mention a seedy undercurrent that is sure to turn off some. A film for strong minds and sturdy hearts.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
FEARnet
Combines enough that's genre-friendly and accessible with the trademark style of a truly unique and "artsy" filmmaker.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Quickflix
The Skin I Live In certainly puts the ! in ALMODOVAR! The Spanish auteur's latest film is particularly melodramatic, bizarre, and visually sumptuous, even by his already heightened standards.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Talk
A mix of creepy horror and seductive melodrama, The Skin I Live In reveals its secrets gradually.
ABC Radio Brisbane
I don't want to give too much away but this unsettling tale is told so beautifully, so precisely.
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| Original Score: A
Urban Cinefile
Almodóvar plugs us into a whirlpool of emotional constructs which turbo charge the story
Urban Cinefile
Bizarre, shocking, sexy and dark, this is Almodóvar at his brilliant melodramatic best
