Wobbling awkwardly between satire and mystery, Skincare is a slickly mounted LA fable without much going on under the skin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2025

This is, at its core, a rather dark and nasty film, albeit one which feels it can step away from its summative nastiness for a few moments of light relief.

| Dec 1, 2024

Skincare is a thriller not without blemish, but Elizabeth Banks gives a suitably glowing performance...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2024

Skincare is a well-made but ultimately unremarkable dark comedy that does little different to other films of this tone and satirical subject matter, despite some decent filmmaking and a capable cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2024

Skincare is another interesting take on an emerging horror subgenre, even if it doesn’t quite manage to find its equilibrium between thriller and comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2024

A worthy contribution to the growing microgenre of female-led beauty-themed horror, and some of us out here are ready for more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2024

Skincare is a frothy, thinly written thriller that never lives up to its wild source material. The script might have been more effective if it had leaned into the comedic, satirical aspects rather than playing out like a bland yet good-looking thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2024

Banks...has never been better.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Oct 1, 2024

Skincare works best when depicting the chain of events that send Hope over the edge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

This gets a lot about L.A. right.

| Sep 16, 2024

[Elizabeth Banks] is utterly magnetic.

| Sep 16, 2024

Skincare is more of a dark comedy about ambition than a mystery thriller about harassment. Elizabeth Banks carries this uneven but interesting movie with her performance as an increasingly unhinged esthetician.

| Sep 15, 2024

Impeccably acted by Banks and featuring a whirlwind story with plenty of intricate themes, 'Skincare' is a well crafted and entertaining thriller that whilst setting up an intriguing mystery, fails to stick the landing due to becoming too convoluted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2024

The neo-noir thriller pulsates with nervous energy, and the story, inspired by actual events, keeps you on the edge of your seat. Elizabeth Banks is terrific.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2024

Elizabeth Banks' performance as a woman on the verge makes the movie interesting.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 27, 2024

Skincare is a whodunit in which audiences will likely figure out the who before the character "dun it."

| Aug 26, 2024

it didn’t provide enough catharsis or excitement for me to do anything with that feeling of unease.

| Aug 25, 2024

It looks good, has a slick style, and contains a committed central performance, but it all exists on a surface level.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 23, 2024

Beauty can be an ugly business so it’s too bad this tense, fitfully funny satire about vanity scammers only goes skin deep. But it’s all flowers for Elizabeth Banks who is sheer bonkers perfection as a cosmetics control freak losing control.

| Aug 23, 2024

Rarely finding a proper tone, director Austin Peters ends up trying to spin way too many plates for the sake of a story that could lean more into the severity of what’s taking place or have a keener eye on what it’s attempting to satirize.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 21, 2024