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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...as insidious as it is gorgeous, a depraved thing inching its way into the subconscious... secrets turn out to be so shocking that it's easy to overlook 'Skin's' beauty..." (Read the full review...) 147 words, 10/13/11 Richard Corliss, Time: VERY GOOD "...unmistakably Almodóvarian... only middling Pedro -- which is to say, better than 78% of other people's films." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 10/14/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...beautifully shot, crisp and vibrant, and features impeccable production design... But it might almost be too pristine, at the expense of real emotional engagement." (Read the full review...) 490 words, 10/13/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "...seduces the eye with exactly the kind of beauty we've come to expect from the Spanish auteur... the creation of a movie fanatic who loves to look." (Read the full review...) 214 words, 10/21/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...reunites Almodóvar with Antonio Banderas for the first time since 1990's 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!' Director and star still bring out the wicked, badass best in each other." (Read the full review...) 327 words, 10/14/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...haunting... the film can wear on the viewer with its convoluted, fractured narrative... unquestionably disturbs... doesn't always resonate dramatically." (Read the full review...) 445 words, 10/14/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...does not disappoint. Though I usually take pleasure in Almodovar's sexy darkness, this film induces queasiness." (Read the full review...) 784 words, 10/21/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Banderas steps back into Almodóvar World without seeming to have broken his stride in the least... one of the boldest and best performances he's essayed in years." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 10/11/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...exhilarating.... Mr. Almodóvar's control remains virtuosic... a Pandora's box from which identity, gender, sex and desire spring." (Read the full review...) 978 words, 10/14/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Almodovar makes some missteps in his icky mélange of melodrama and mischief, but the end result is playfully devious." (Read the full review...) 142 words, 10/14/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a movie of ideas. Those ideas, disturbing and provocative, are translated into a number of unforgettable visuals, even as the drama that propels them comes to life only intermittently and with a wink." (Read the full review...) 740 words, 10/14/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an eye-popping and genuinely shocking gender-bending twist on Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo.' " (Read the full review...) 386 words, 10/14/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an exercise in improbable contrasts. The more extreme the actions of the characters, the more contained and fastidious the director's technique." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 10/21/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Outrageous, voluptuous, perversely intoxicating." (Read the full review...) 373 words, 11/04/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: WEAK "...dead-souled.... it's the only Almodóvar movie in which feeling, emotional or sexual, doesn't suffuse the imagery and hold the ramshackle melodrama together." (Read the full review...) 694 words, 10/10/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...does not disappoint. Though I usually take pleasure in Almodovar's sexy darkness, this film induces queasiness." (Read the full review...) 784 words, 10/21/11 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "In doing a postmodern reinvention of old-fashioned thriller tropes, Almodóvar gets so caught up in the experiment that he kills the basic pleasures of the genre." (Read the full review...) 459 words, 10/12/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The film has more twists than a bull's neck and mucho polish (Alberto Iglesias's jazzy score also enchants), but it's more freaky than frightful, a 'B' picture by an 'A' director." (Read the full review...) 564 words, 10/28/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...a gender-bending sci-fi hybrid... one of Almodovar's lighter efforts." (Read the full review...) 92 words, 09/07/11 Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "In any other filmmaker's hands, this would be impossible to swallow, but Almodóvar makes it into a weird and delectable dish." (Read the full review...) 135 words, 10/27/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...ambitious, crazy, even a-little-bit-infuriating... a spicy meal that nevertheless goes down with deceptive ease, thanks to the assured touch of a master chef." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 10/21/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...like 'The Silence of the Lambs,' this film, by turns macabre, melodramatic, and gothic, makes the heart race and the skin crawl." (Read the full review...) 495 words, 11/04/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...as disquieting as it is unsatisfying... a movie that has us thinking 'Ewwwwwwww' no matter what the subtitles translate on the screen." (Read the full review...) 434 words, 11/18/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Time and again this mad masterwork has you thinking, 'Oh, no, they wouldn't dare go there.' And then it goes several steps further." (Read the full review...) 420 words, 10/28/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...messiness doesn't slow Almodóvar, a confident director if ever there was one. He revels in it. You might, too. Or you might be disgusted. But you won't be undecided." (Read the full review...) 473 words, 11/04/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a luscious, playful movie. The twists in the plot jostle and, even in its grotesquerie, the movie has a staggering beauty that I think we just take for granted with Almodóvar." (Read the full review...) 698 words, 10/28/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a brilliant contradiction, splitting its story in two, addressing modern ideas of gender and identity with Gothic trappings and classic style." (Read the full review...) 557 words, 10/14/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the film has many recognizable strains and sources, and yet the arrangement of the material, the obsessions and the points of emphasis are entirely individual." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 10/21/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "The story has so many twists and turns it's practically writhing... the movie's power depends on its shock value, and Almodóvar does, indeed, know how to shock." (Read the full review...) 321 words, 11/04/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Part 'Vertigo,' part 'Beauty and the Beast,' part 'Bride of Frankenstein'... another casually masterful work from a director who has barely put a foot wrong in his 30 (!) years of feature filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 623 words, 11/04/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "Almodovar is such a skilled surgeon that he extracts a juicy nugget of pleasure from a purely distasteful premise." (Read the full review...) 327 words, 11/23/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a mediocre addition to Almodóvar's resume, yet for fans, even bad Almodóvar is better than none at all." (Read the full review...) 179 words, 12/01/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a sexually charged 'Frankenstein' remake, filled with tension, wonder and, of course, horror." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 11/18/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "By the end of the movie, when all your questions have been answered, you're left with the exhilarating high of having been manipulated by a gifted artist in a diabolically dark mood." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 11/03/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "In doing a postmodern reinvention of old-fashioned thriller tropes, Almodóvar gets so caught up in the experiment that he kills the basic pleasures of the genre." (Read the full review...) 459 words, 10/12/11 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a stunning, mind-bending thriller... effectively entices the audience from the first scene before grabbing them by the throat and taking them on a tour of pure madness." (Read the full review...) 578 words, 10/13/11 Sheila Johnston, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...based on Thierry Jonquet's novel, 'Mygale' (a/k/a 'Tarantula'), spiked with a dash of Georges Franju's 'Eyes Without a Face,' a finger of 'Frankenstein,' a slug of Hitchcock, and more." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 10/27/11 Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...cares about nothing but its ludicrous plot.... the only real charge this movie offers is the gradual and increasingly fucked-up reveal of what's actually going on." (Read the full review...) 291 words, 05/20/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a remarkably restrained telling of what's in essence a sci-fi psychosexual melodrama." (Read the full review...) 815 words, 10/13/11 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...sometimes in Almodóvar's cinema, as in 'The Skin I Live In,' looking isn't always the same as seeing." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 09/24/11 Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "In any other filmmaker's hands, this would be impossible to swallow, but Almodóvar makes it into a weird and delectable dish." (Read the full review...) 135 words, 10/27/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...touches on more of Almodóvar's recurring themes about personal identity than one might expect from the premise." (Read the full review...) 327 words, 11/10/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "In Almodóvar's world, womanhood is narrow and confining... It's all just wacky and wonderful and sexy and who could possibly think otherwise? As a woman myself, this infuriates me." (Read the full review...) 695 words, 10/12/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...hypnotic.... an original film that forces us, time and again, to reconsider what we think we've just seen, and what we're sure we feel..." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 10/14/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...exhilarating.... Mr. Almodóvar's control remains virtuosic... a Pandora's box from which identity, gender, sex and desire spring." (Read the full review...) 978 words, 10/14/11 David Denby, New Yorker: FAIR "...a textbook of expository technique, but it's all craft and shine... the least enjoyable of Almodóvar's films, a movie that is serious without being intelligent." (Read the full review...) 968 words, 10/10/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a movie of ideas. Those ideas, disturbing and provocative, are translated into a number of unforgettable visuals, even as the drama that propels them comes to life only intermittently and with a wink." (Read the full review...) 740 words, 10/14/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: FAIR "...examination of these two damaged people's troubled coexistence remains a cold (if impressively executed) formalist exercise. 'The Skin I Live In's' beauty is only skin deep." (Read the full review...) 889 words, 10/13/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...genre-movie Pedro, Hitchcock-en-español Pedro... less a film you'll fall in love with than a film you'll tell your friends they absolutely must see..." (Read the full review...) 742 words, 05/19/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...a creepily convoluted tale... despite its scalpel-like precision, pic falls short of its titular promise, never quite getting under the skin as it should." (Read the full review...) 849 words, 05/19/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a movie of ideas. Those ideas, disturbing and provocative, are translated into a number of unforgettable visuals, even as the drama that propels them comes to life only intermittently and with a wink." (Read the full review...) 740 words, 10/14/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...walks a very fine line between being a creepy, demented, exploitational B-picture and an elegantly shot, beautifuly mounted European arthouse feature." (Read the full review...) 865 words, 09/01/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...exhilarating.... Mr. Almodóvar's control remains virtuosic... a Pandora's box from which identity, gender, sex and desire spring." (Read the full review...) 978 words, 10/14/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...hypnotic.... an original film that forces us, time and again, to reconsider what we think we've just seen, and what we're sure we feel..." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 10/14/11
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