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Critics Consensus: Though at times melodramatic, Skins' harsh depiction of life on the reservation is an eye-opener.
Critic Consensus: Though at times melodramatic, Skins' harsh depiction of life on the reservation is an eye-opener.
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (24) | DVD (1)
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.
Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation.
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.
To see this movie is to understand why the faces on Mount Rushmore are so painful and galling to the first Americans.
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.
What makes Skins compelling is how it opens our eyes to conditions on the reservation.
While most of the acting was good, some of it was amateurish.
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
Whatever Eyre's failings as a dramatist, he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place.
Director Chris Eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking.
Though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy, and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation.
It lacks the compassion, good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [Eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success.
This is one the wife picked and I had no idea what we were getting into. Ultimately, the film is a brutal look at the realities of life, or what passes for life, on a Lakota reservation. As always, Graham Greene is excellent!
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