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Knives and Skin's daunting ambitions occasionally elude its grasp, but this remains a powerfully written and uniquely timely coming-of-age thriller.
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Carolyn is a martyr for Reeder's message-a complex and twisted commentary on the plights of human nature. December 18, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Carolyn is a martyr for Reeder's message-a complex and twisted commentary on the plights of human nature.
Cody Corrall
Reeder is deadly serious about the film's themes of teenage girls' fears, desires and demons, though there's a fair amount of deadpan black comedy... December 11, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Reeder is deadly serious about the film's themes of teenage girls' fears, desires and demons, though there's a fair amount of deadpan black comedy...
Michael Phillips
Social satire's strange sights and sounds are sure to stick with you. December 10, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Social satire's strange sights and sounds are sure to stick with you.
Richard Roeper
The positive qualities lie in the surrealistic film's bold cinematography, distinctive use of music, and diversity of cast, though that's not enough to redeem this tedious viewing experience. December 7, 2019 | Full Review…
The positive qualities lie in the surrealistic film's bold cinematography, distinctive use of music, and diversity of cast, though that's not enough to redeem this tedious viewing experience.
Valerie Complex
Like the songs sung by its young cast, Knives and Skin feels like cinematic karaoke, lacking in authorship or deeper meaning. December 6, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Like the songs sung by its young cast, Knives and Skin feels like cinematic karaoke, lacking in authorship or deeper meaning.
Brian Tallerico
It's Twin Peaks as recast through the lens of radical feminism, if not nearly as academic as that sounds. December 5, 2019 | Full Review…
It's Twin Peaks as recast through the lens of radical feminism, if not nearly as academic as that sounds.
Scott Tobias
I'll be spending a lifetime with Knives and Skin. It is a beautiful revelation that we are all whole and never alone. February 11, 2020 | Full Review…
I'll be spending a lifetime with Knives and Skin. It is a beautiful revelation that we are all whole and never alone.
Ashlee Blackwell
Knives and Skin is also a deeply feminist film, which embraces all parts of the female experience, and features a woman-driven story. January 25, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Knives and Skin is also a deeply feminist film, which embraces all parts of the female experience, and features a woman-driven story.
Catherine Springer
What's most frustrating aboutKnives and Skinis despite all of these wild and weird ingredients, there is simply no connective tissue to keep everything together. Reeder's vision is frustratingly opaque. January 1, 2020 | Full Review…
What's most frustrating aboutKnives and Skinis despite all of these wild and weird ingredients, there is simply no connective tissue to keep everything together. Reeder's vision is frustratingly opaque.
Jake Tropila
It's ambitious, very ambitious, in juggling a wide range of characters on a very limited budget...it didn't speak to me but I invite everyone to see for themselves... December 30, 2019 | Full Review…
It's ambitious, very ambitious, in juggling a wide range of characters on a very limited budget...it didn't speak to me but I invite everyone to see for themselves...
Lisa Nesselson
There's a lot to process here. Perhaps the writer-director should have tried, you know, processing it. December 27, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
There's a lot to process here. Perhaps the writer-director should have tried, you know, processing it.
Roger Moore
Unfortunately all the neon-lit cinematography and woozy score from Nick Zinner can't make up for how tired and affected this film's off-kilter tone feels. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Unfortunately all the neon-lit cinematography and woozy score from Nick Zinner can't make up for how tired and affected this film's off-kilter tone feels.
Dominic Griffin
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