| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

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

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

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

Although mainstream American movies tend to exploit the familiar, every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn, to grow, to travel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

What makes Skins compelling is how it opens our eyes to conditions on the reservation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

For all its serious sense of purpose ... [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Played by Graham Greene ... in one of the year's best performances, [Mogie's] a fully dimensional character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2002

A mild, reluctant, thumbs down.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2002

Patchy combination of soap opera, low-tech magic realism and, at times, ploddingly sociological commentary.

Full Review | Sep 27, 2002

It bites hard.

Full Review | Sep 27, 2002

Although shot with little style, Skins is heartfelt and achingly real.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002

Nice performances, real texture, real anger and real humanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002

For a location-made movie offering scenes and characters a refreshing world apart from the usual tinsel, Skins does its subject proud.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2002

Skins has a desolate air, but Eyre, a Native American raised by white parents, manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 27, 2002

Might have been better off as a documentary, with less of Mr. Eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2002

If Eyre wanted to tell a story of outrage and dignity, he should have guarded against so much preachiness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2002

As social expos, Skins has its heart in the right place, but that's not much to hang a soap opera on.

| Sep 24, 2002

Despite some harsh patterns, it's a stunningly warm tapestry of human beings struggling to endure despite all things.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2002