An interesting and funny character study for much of its 93 minute running time, but the ending feels almost as if the production ran out of money and shut down before they figured out a satisfactory conclusion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

An exhausting succession of dramatic happenings that leave little room for periodic small wins.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It will have you guffawing wildly at a perfectly judged lip synch dance off to Jefferson Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now one minute, then sobbing surreptitiously into your sleeve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2020

The film's depiction of the chronic discontent of middle class America is little more than a background prop.

| Aug 13, 2020

No one blows up your life quite like family.

| Original Score: B | Jul 7, 2020

The Skeleton Twins is Wiig and Hader's movie.. They take what could have been stock indie characters and created two broken, funny, fully realized people. Watching them play together is sheer joy, something that indie films and Hollywood need more of.

| Jan 8, 2020

At times delightfully funny, Johnson's surprisingly dark film avoids many of the general pratfalls of white suburban ennui as it manages to be both heartfelt and adult.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Although wobbly in its construction, a character-centric dramedy with Wiig and Hader as said characters was never going to be anything other than pretty doggone good.

| Original Score: B | Aug 6, 2019

We find humor inching its way in right alongside tragedy. And it's a thing of beauty.

| Original Score: 4.25/5 | Jul 19, 2019

You have to craft stories about people who feel real, then you can let your audience laugh and cry accordingly (...) The Skeleton Twins succeeds on both fronts, because its main concern is to make you feel something.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 16, 2019

What raises The Skeleton Twins above what could be a sentimental 'learning and sharing' drama is the strong chemistry between Wiig and Hader.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2019

A wilfully bleak comedy where humour is a puzzle to be probed and explored rather than merely a form of escapism, Johnson's sophomore feature is a surprisingly touching if flawed exploration of contemporary anxieties.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2019

This isn't a political film, but an emotionally charged portrait of a man's love affair with an art form, a culture, a community.

| Mar 22, 2019

[The Skeleton Twins] piles on the tragedy, so it becomes ridiculous.

| Mar 12, 2019

Director Craig Johnson provides plenty of humor to balance out the dark times-my favorite involves the theme song from 1987's Mannequin.

| Mar 2, 2019

While their characters may not bring the best out of one another, Wiig and Hader do, bringing an unmistakable authenticity to siblings who trade playful teasing and vicious barbs in equal measure.

| Nov 20, 2018

The entire cast, most of whom we know, does an incredible job going against type. All in all, it's a charming, albeit dark, story.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 3, 2018

Some of Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig's finest work, held together by good supporting work from Ty Burrell and Luke Wilson and a fantastically witty script.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

If nothing else, The Skeleton Twins taught me something I didn't know: I might be willing to watch Bill Hader in anything.

| Aug 28, 2018

The Skeleton Twins is just another little bittersweet indie dramedy, and it's not a perfect film. But it is worth your time.

| Oct 25, 2017