Knives and Skin

The movie has no conflict or resolution, and nothing happens. Pointlessly salacious behavior. All of the pretense of high cinema, but ultimately nothing is accomplished and no meaning or message is conveyed.

A beautifully crafted arty movie, that never goes where you think it will, and that is deeply full of shadows and lights, delicate poetry, vibrations, colors and humanity. The best movie I've watched this year, and probably one of the greatest I've ever watched.

This was a visually pretty movie but it was very weird.

Ambitious ‘Knives and Skin' Emphasizes Style Over Narrative

This is one of the most unwatchable movies I've ever seen. Disgusting in every way.

This movie had some interesting ideas going for it. However, it tries way too hard to be weird and it feels pretty false. Plus, I was never given a reason to invest in any of the characters and a lot of this was just dull.

This film's trailer does it no favors – in the preview you are bombarded with nonstop superlative text quotes from all kinds of sources, some credible but many of them you've never heard of. HOWEVER, ignore the noise, the buzz, the hype. Ignore all of that and watch this movie some night & you'll have a rather good time, like I did. The hype surrounding the film, (especially in the film's own trailer), describes it as being sort of like a meshing of Twin Peaks and Donnie Darko, and I wanted to quickly speak to this belief because it's one of the most hilariously incorrect opinions I've seen from ANY film critic, ever. So here we go: Twin Peaks was and remains a phenomenal achievement that forever changed the quality and context of television. The ABC network executives destroyed the very show that made the network all sorts of money when they demanded that Lynch & Frost reveal the identity of Laura Palmer's killer – something David Lynch & Mark Frost HAD NEVER intended on doing no matter how many seasons the show ended up running. But the ultimatum was given at the risk of immediate cancellation should they refuse, and as we all know S02 of Twin Peaks went off the rails about half-way through because of it. Lynch returned to direct the S02 finale, which (miraculously) put the series back onto coherent & fascinating track, leaving one of the best cliffhangers dangling for over 25 years...It's safe to say that Twin Peaks is loved by this reviewer. All 3 TV seasons and the film, Fire Walk With Me, all of it is DAMN FINE! Donnie Darko, on the other hand, is a different matter. I've seen it too many times for my liking – the first being way back in high school when it was initially released on DVD, at a friend's house, (I may have been there only to see about a girl; the details vary on your source but I digress...). Donnie Darko was rather boring for a film that tried so hard not to be, and that's how I still feel about that movie. So you see, it does quite offend me when someone slaps a blurb of text on a trailer so irresponsibly by evening mentioning a movie like Donnie Darko – I mean, why would you even mention that movie if you're trying to PROMOTE a different one? All you're doing is making your movie seem unappealing just by associating it with Donnie Darko. Thankfully for everyone who has seen this movie, myself included, it is nothing like Donnie Darko, and BARELY, if at all, is it like Twin Peaks. This film is definitely playing to the beat of it's own drum, and when it works, IT REALLY WORKS. Cheers. ⅘.

I saw this at Fantastic Fest and honestly thought it was the worst, or right there with a few others, movie I've ever seen. I truly hated it -- fortunately 9 months later I've forgotten many of the details, but every moment of sitting there was excruciating for me.

Horrible watch, will not watch again, and am actively telling you to avoid. This is like 10 short stories all unnecessarily set at the same time during a tragedy that barely has a storyline other than some poor girl's mom slowing losing her mind in grief. Imagine all the "witty" dialogue of Juno, a Kevin Smith movie, and the worst version of an American Degrassi combined, then remove most of the substance, and place it during a missing girl episode of CVU. To make it worse, they do high school choir versions of pop songs, and after watching this empty she'll of a movie, I had to wait in the credits just to make sure they didn't resolve something.

Knives and Skin es un batiburrillo narrativo que sabe que quiere contar, pero no sabe hacerlo, y olvidando a medio camino la mitad de los subargumentos que plantea. No ayuda que sea mas larga de lo que debería y el retufillo Jarmush-Lynchiano... Se hace cuesta arriba a los 20min