| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2006

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2005

While most of the acting was good, some of it was amateurish.

| Original Score: C | Aug 2, 2003

Like Smoke Signals, the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2003

Skins is a wrenching, uncompromisingly bleak film, but its stars ... fill the screen with warmth, humor and spiritual yearning in the face of hardship and tragedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2002

Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation.

| Dec 13, 2002

Whatever Eyre's failings as a dramatist, he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 12, 2002

Director Chris Eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy, and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 2, 2002

It lacks the compassion, good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [Eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 29, 2002

Thanks to strong performances by Schweig and Greene, the results are powerful and heartbreaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2002

There's a certain raggedness and preachiness to the picture, but ultimately its simplicity and basic integrity shine through and compensate for the flaws.

| Original Score: B | Nov 21, 2002

Despite all of its good intentions, Skins remains only skin deep.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 15, 2002

Eric Schweig and Graham Greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2002

It's a haunting indictment of a situation that has by and large been swept under the rug by Americans -- a stirring look at one man's impotent rage.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 7, 2002

A craving for social order and logic where there may be little or none, and lost in a sea of white values and imposed authority irrelevant to Indian pain.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2002

To see this movie is to understand why the faces on Mount Rushmore are so painful and galling to the first Americans.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2002

All-in-all, the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live among us, but not necessarily with us.

| Oct 15, 2002