What makes Skins compelling is how it opens our eyes to conditions on the reservation.
– John Monaghan,
Detroit Free Press,
11 Oct 2002
fresh:
Although mainstream American movies tend to exploit the familiar, every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn, to grow, to travel.
– Susan Stark,
Detroit News,
11 Oct 2002
fresh:
To see this movie is to understand why the faces on Mount Rushmore are so painful and galling to the first Americans.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
18 Oct 2002
fresh:
It's a haunting indictment of a situation that has by and large been swept under the rug by Americans -- a stirring look at one man's impotent rage.
– Gary Dowell,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Nov 2002
rotten:
Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation.