Critic Reviews
83
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
positive
40(82%)
mixed
6(12%)
negative
3(6%)
Showing 49 Critic Reviews
Sep 17, 2013
100
Under the Skin is perhaps best viewed as an icy parable of love, sex and loneliness.
Sep 17, 2013
100
Glazer’s astonishing film takes you to a place where the everyday becomes suddenly strange, and fear and seduction become one and the same.
Sep 17, 2013
100
It’s an intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime: it combines sci-fi ideas, gloriously unusual special effects and a sharp atmosphere of horror.
Mar 10, 2014
100
You may not be sure what you've seen, but you've sure seen something. With neither a petticoat nor a wideboy in sight, this is one of the most original and exciting British movies in some time.
Mar 28, 2014
100
Throughout, what truly matters to director Jonathan Glazer is articulating through visual and aural enticement the unconscious power of our death drive.
Apr 1, 2014
100
Very little in Under the Skin is clear at all. Its secrets unspool in mysterious, supple ribbons, but that's part of its allure, and its great beauty.
Apr 3, 2014
100
Much of this is fascinating, as far as it goes, but it wouldn't go as far as it does into drama were it not for Ms. Johansson's wonderfully strange performance.
Apr 3, 2014
100
The movie’s eerie, climactic image challenges our conventional notions of human identity and leaves us reflecting on the possibility that every being in the universe is an alien in disguise.
Apr 3, 2014
100
Watching this film feels like a genesis moment — of sci-fi fable, of filmmaking, of performance — with all the ambiguity and excitement that implies.
Apr 4, 2014
100
A brilliant science fiction movie — more of an "experience" than a traditional story, with plenty to say about gender roles, sexism and the power of lust?
