Skincare

A worthy contribution to the growing microgenre of female-led beauty-themed horror, and some of us out here are ready for more.

This gets a lot about L.A. right.

Beauty can be an ugly business so it’s too bad this tense, fitfully funny satire about vanity scammers only goes skin deep. But it’s all flowers for Elizabeth Banks who is sheer bonkers perfection as a cosmetics control freak losing control.

A compellingly sleazy ‘80s-style thriller — or at least a convincing facsimile of one. The story may be only skin-deep, but Banks and Pullman find something truthfully hopeless in these surface pleasures.



The twisted and darkly unnerving comedic thriller Skincare is basically I, Tonya, only with boutique spas instead of ice skating.

... A campy, fun thriller “inspired by” a real-life story, one that’s likely to come and go without much fanfare — though Elizabeth Banks’ performance deserves some.

Wobbling awkwardly between satire and mystery, Skincare is a slickly mounted LA fable without much going on under the skin.

This is, at its core, a rather dark and nasty film, albeit one which feels it can step away from its summative nastiness for a few moments of light relief.

Skincare is a thriller not without blemish, but Elizabeth Banks gives a suitably glowing performance...

Skincare is a well-made but ultimately unremarkable dark comedy that does little different to other films of this tone and satirical subject matter, despite some decent filmmaking and a capable cast.