Avaliações do Metacritic

A tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale.

Inherently dramatic but needed a stronger director than Anthony Fabian, who overdoes understatement.

The fact that it's actually based on a true story adds an extra layer of poignancy, heightened further by another superb Sophie Okonedo performance.

One of the more bizarre illustrations of racial injustice under apartheid is dramatized in Skin.

This workmanlike, but enormously moving, movie makes the case that apartheid really does control her life, even her decision to rebel and get involved with a black man.

A little more variation in the script, though, might have yielded something truly great.

Alas, Mr. Fabian, directing his first feature-length fiction film, uses a club whenever a feather would do. He also mishandles the actors, in particular Mr. Neill and Ms. Okonedo, both of whom have been incomparably better elsewhere.

Too many of the characters are either good or bad, and that loss of nuance is missed.

The direction is never more than conventional, with a tear-inducing finale better suited to a TV soap opera.

The story is too rich in incident for Fabian, whose episodic TV-movie approach speeds through Laing’s lifetime of abuse.