A frank, fearless film from a director carving out her place in a strong British tradition.

| Aug 6, 2024

At times, the atmosphere of claustrophobic sexual tension is overwhelming, but there's real sadness and sensitivity here, as well as a desperately poignant performance from Morton.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2024

Avoiding sentimentality and glibness, this is a fine, spare piece of film-making.

| Aug 6, 2024

Samantha Morton, all of 20, throws herself wholeheartedly into the complex part.

| Aug 6, 2024

Written and directed by Carine Adler, this rather underrated British film offers a searing examination of grief.

| May 10, 2021

Under the Skin's experiential aesthetic and narrative centred around a bereavement bears uncanny resemblance to that other Samantha Morton-starring film, Morvern Callar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2020

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 20, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2003

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

... a raw and occasionally depressing first film with moments of chilling recognition and a remarkable young star.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 8, 2002

Reminds us what it's like to see an actress go to work when she has a juicy role to play.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2002

In her feature debut, Adler shapes her film gracefully and elicits a scorching no-holds-barred, totally selfless portrayal from Morton.

| Feb 14, 2001

Although Iris has no idea who she is, Morton is utterly certain, and inhabits her temporarily defeated soul with an ease that knocks you out.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Morton makes Iris real. Every moment she's on screen, the actress forces us to accept Iris as a living, breathing individual.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Adler does a remarkable job of conveying the kind of anguished soul sickness that is at a loss for words or conventional expression.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Adler's portrait of emotional disintegration is in many ways as harrowing as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, thanks in large part to Morton's terrifying performance.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 1, 2000

I would not want to spend much time with this Iris, and frankly the 85 minutes Under the Skin runs is longer than anyone should have to spend with her.

| Jan 1, 2000