Sophie Okonedo beautifully portrays Laing as a confused and scared young woman who's forced to choose a color line, but not without her share of heartache and pain.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

While it's important we never forget the horrendous evils of humanities past, Skin is sadly one social studies class too many.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 8, 2010

Performances are impeccable, and location shooting in South Africa adds to the power of an impressive true story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2010

Laing's life, despite its inherent melodrama, does not automatically lend itself to the screen. And without the aid of a smart script or a prevailing sense of delicacy, a movie about her or apartheid risks being a blunt instrument.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 14, 2010

Provocative.

| Dec 15, 2009

Potent, still relevant and inspiring while maddening, Skin shows some of our best and much of our worst.

| Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2009

Every emotion is underscored with sugary music, every narrative plot progression telegraphed with the mechanical structural stiffness of a made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Dec 10, 2009

Great performances and a smart decision to avoid melodrama make Skin worth seeing but it's the small things that hold it back from being truly great.

| Nov 13, 2009

This great film by Anthony Fabian tells this story through the eyes of a happy girl who grows into an outsider.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2009

What takes that story of heartbreak and makes it ultimately heartwarming is that Sandra's story, much like the history of apartheid itself, doesn't end there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2009

By the end, the incredulity stems not from the fact that this happened but that the wider world didn't know about it before now.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Sophie Okonedo, so good in Hotel Rwanda, is fine here as well.

| Original Score: B | Nov 6, 2009

Director Anthony Fabian lets the story sell itself, and it does so partly on the strength of the lead performance by Sophie Okonedo.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2009

Skin is a moving and smartly made account of a truly peculiar episode from the period of apartheid that existed as national policy in South Africa until just 15 years ago.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2009

As told by director Anthony Fabian, Skin is both exasperatingly choppy and exceptionally moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2009

Skin is a tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 4, 2009

This unadorned but affecting drama about Sandra Laing, who attracted media attention in the 1950s when her white parents fought the South African system, suffers from a one-note script, but still does right by its tricky subject.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2009

The direction is never more than conventional, with a tear-inducing finale better suited to a 온라인카지노추천 soap opera.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2009

In a day when it's difficult to say something new about the racial divide, Sandy's story has a poignant power as it underscores just how deeply the fissures run even when it's all in the family.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2009

We don't need overwrought performances to understand the calamity of her life or to weep when her parents turn their backs on her. If anything, the story demands restraint because, invariably at the movies, it's the gentle touch that hits harder.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2009