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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 Oct 2011

There are several genres nimbly folded into The Skin I Live In, which might also be described as an existential mystery, a melodramatic thriller,…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 12 Oct 2011

You won't want to have a single one of the deliciously juicy twists spoiled before you see it, the pleasure of discovering…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 11 Oct 2011

Almodovar at the height of his powers...The Spanish master still knows how to get under an audience's skin and unsettle it in shivery, satisfying…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 11 Oct 2011

This feels almost like a parody of Almodovar, with its melodramatic tone and themes of gender, identity, sex and revenge…

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By Clay Cane (203) for BET.com (238) on 11 Oct 2011

Almodovar ups the sicko factor with arguably one of the best plot twists in the past ten years of movie-making…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 11 Oct 2011

Surreal but disappointingly drab, it's still not the best Almodovar in years…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Oct 2011

You never feel the burn in The Skin I Live In, certainly not the way you do in an immortal shocker like Eyes Without a Face…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2011

The film deflates in its final third, with crude matter-of-fact set pieces, dumb explanatory psychology, and bursts of intentional camp overwhelming…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Oct 2011

Much as he did with Ruth Rendell's Live Flesh, Almodovar has taken an ice-cold psychological thriller, penned by a novelist of far less humanistic…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Oct 2011

Like many lab experiments, this melodramatic hybrid makes for an unstable fusion…

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By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 09 Oct 2011

Intriguing characters that are woven together beautifully, but that doesn't mean they're people you care about and that becomes a problem when…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 09 Oct 2011

It's the only Almodóvar movie in which feeling, emotional or sexual, doesn't suffuse the imagery and hold the ramshackle melodrama together…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Sep 2011

This is a beautiful vision, but in telling too many flowery secrets, it's also one that unnecessarily keeps its queerness in the closet…

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By Brian Gibson (578) for Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) (665) on 21 Sep 2011

An intriguing, sometimes haunting trans-genre experiment, but the Spanish director's grafting of the revenge-thriller and Gothic-horror onto…

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By Brad Miska (152) for Bloody Disgusting (327) on 09 Sep 2011

It's overly complex, yet Almidivar somehow finds a way to wrangle the beast in... the full work of art is stunning…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 Sep 2011

Had Almodóvar embraced the genre more, and changed his style to suit a story in which human beings get hacked up and transformed, he might've…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 07 Sep 2011

The revelation of a gruesome back story seems, often, to serve as much for laughs as for dramatic heft in what is one of Almodovar's lighter efforts…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Horror.com (214) on 01 Sep 2011

Director Pedro Almodóvar describes this film as a horror story without screams or frights - but there are actually a few of both…

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By Sam Bathe (186) for Fan The Fire (489) on 01 Sep 2011

This is a smart, complex and intelligent movie, from a filmmaker at the top of his game…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Radio Times (2,421) on 31 Aug 2011

At times, the narrative seems to be taking a somewhat roundabout route, but patience is rewarded, since this is elegant, perverse and provocative…

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