While this film features some interesting themes, it’s also methodical, mundane at times and feels like a bunch of random brushstrokes.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 19, 2024

By envisioning a world where the consumers get consumed, the film calls for a reconceptualization of human and nonhuman relationships. “Under the Skin” denies human exceptionalism and supremacy.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2024

…any film or streaming version of Faber’s novel would take an Avatar-level budget to produce, and the commercial possibilities would be limited, but Glazer’s sole misstep as a director was to create this absurdly truncated version of this alienating tale…

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2024

[Director Jonathan] Glazer is less interested in the what and the why than in the texture of the experience, the intensity of the imagery, the sense of adaptation and alienation as this alien starts to connect with her victims.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2023

As a broader take on gender relations, though, Under The Skin is willfully perplexing...

Full Review | Jan 25, 2023

Maximal minimalism, of the kind of heightened sensation you’d expect from Jonathan Glazer... His character is the ultimate consumer, shopping for men among the faces on the street, who will be literally taken by desire?

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 5, 2022

It's unquestionably one of the most important science-fiction pictures in recent memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Director Jonathan Glazer's intentionally vague and aloof adaptation of Michael Faber's novel devotes its a torturous 108 minutes on the efforts of Scarlett Johansson's seductive alien to lure lonely, unattached men to their death.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2022

Cinematic Ketamine for the soul

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 6, 2021

With arresting images and hypnotic soundtrack, the film is one of the most singularly mesmerizing movie watching experience I've had in a long time.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2021

If Johansson had been asked to speak to Glasgow residents in depth about their lives and conditions, their thoughts and feelings, Under the Skin might have had genuine value.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2021

It deliberately challenges the audience, almost daring them to stay along for the ride, but those brave enough to take the journey will be rewarded with a story that takes a sly look at human identity filtered through the guise of an alien.

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

What started off as a potentially feminist film fell into a tired fairytale.

Full Review | Jan 21, 2021

It does not develop a plot so much as a fascinating feeling of underlying horror.

Full Review | Jan 20, 2021

The film's curiosities lose out to the weird imperceptibleness of characters and plot.

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

A genre oddity of the utmost excellence

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Under the Skin is essentially a road movie abstracted into an erotic poem, where somewhere in between our pleasures and fears coincide.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

For all the qualities it has, I view it as though it were sitting inside of a display case, only allowing me to engage from a distance.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 21, 2020

Under the Skin will not only go down in the history of science fiction cinema for its powerful imagery... but also because of how easily it revises the myth of the femme fatale. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2020

An exceptional heir to... its literary ancestors like The Man Who Fell to Earth. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2020