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This was some serious crap ... don't know what any of you were thinking that liked this movie. This was just some esoteric piffle that some idiot... ought up. A 117 minutes of watching a girl with a cute face and big ass locked in a room for no reason. No drama, no suspense, no insight. Just 117 minutes of boredom. Full Review
March 22,2012
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I usually like Almodovar's films and find them well-directed, interesting studies of a sometimes warped view of the human condition. I've long noted... his fairly misogynistic viewpoint, but felt the films were interesting enough to make them worth watching despite that. I found The Skin I Live In a complete waste of time - violent and yet completely irrelevant. Not particularly creative and the \"shocker\" at the end wasn't worth sitting through the film for. Full Review
November 19,2011
ejtindc
A review from someone who goes to an Almodovar movie not knowing that there will be subtitles isn't worth the time to read. Please. Some discretion... in review selection! f Full Review
November 17,2011
negem
Pedro Almodovar's latest movie \"The Skin I Live In\" is dark and so damn twisted. It is also well acted and keeps you riveted until the... nal seconds. Antonio Banderas has his best role in years. Don't let anyone tell you anything about the plot. Just go and be prepared to be blown away. Full Review
November 13,2011
warehserat2911
A multiplicity of emotions explored and expressed in this theater piece. Some shocking; some sustaining. My companion mused, \"Oh my. He... ed with the wrong man's child.\" It is one thing to be a mad scientist; it is yet another to be a man father who can also be a \"mad scientist\"...vengefully! The script stumbles to the end: a lot to cover: multiplexed, multifaceted: a bit too much, but still okay. We picked it apart at dinner in a restaurant. It held its own by 90%. All in all, we were drawn into the movie and Banderos was wonderful, as well as, the entire supporting cast. We vowed to see it again with other people.--MO Full Review
November 06,2011
missopine
Critic Reviews
There are several genres nimbly folded into The Skin I Live In, which might also be described as an existential mystery, a melodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza. In other words, it's an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent wit.Full Review
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
Ultimately 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 - not only about mere appearance, or fateful gender, but about who, under our skin, we truly are.Full Review
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
Spanish master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar offers up a grisly Halloween trick-and-treat in his first full-out horror movie, an eye-popping and genuinely shocking gender-bending twist on Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo.''Full Review
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
Even when the film's frigid elegance, perfectly captured by cinematographer José Luis Alcaine, becomes off-puttingly clinical, Almodóvar's passion burns through. The skin he lives in is alive to challenge no matter what warped form it takes.Full Review
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Allusions to "Vertigo," "Rebecca," and Georges Franju's great 1960 French horror movie "Eyes Without a Face" are intentional: The Skin I Live In is, above all, the creation of a movie fanatic who loves to look.Full Review
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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