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  • 2024
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, but her personal and work lives are challenged when rival facialist Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo Méndez) opens a new skincare boutique directly across from her store. She starts to suspect that someone i...

Directed By: Austin Peters

Written By: Sam Freilich, Deering Regan, Austin Peters

  • 2024
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 34 m

Skincare

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 23 User Ratings
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Summary Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, but her personal and work lives are challenged when rival facialist Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo Méndez) opens a new skincare boutique directly across from her store. She starts to suspect that someone i...

Directed By: Austin Peters

Written By: Sam Freilich, Deering Regan, Austin Peters

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
61
55% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
61
55% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Aug 14, 2024
The genius of “Skincare” is how it uses Los Angeles and its image- and celebrity-driven culture as a metaphor for empty lives.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 16, 2024
Skincare is like a quick trip to the local spa. It’s not going to change your life, but it provides instant gratification and helps you escape for an hour and a half.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 19, 2024
Banks’ and Pullman’s deliveries of these tragicomic characters elevate what could have been merely a genre exercise into something more fascinating and satirical.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
61
Aug 15, 2024
Disappointing but not outright disastrous, Skincare never penetrates past superficial observations of how beauty, success and artificiality constantly commingle among the Los Angeles elite.
By Natalia Keogan FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 22, 2024
The overarching problem is the film's tendency to be a touch too shallow, even if that's the point of the narrative. Finding out more about Hope's hidden past, the supporting characters, and the big lives everyone hints at would have made the story more compelling and helped the characters feel real.
By Mary Kassel FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 15, 2024
Skincare feels like it wants to be a screwball caper movie but the comedy gets lost along the way.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 14, 2024
The characters somehow behave both flatly and erratically, driving a cliché plot that manages to be both overly simplistic and confusing. Take care of your skin — and sanity — by sitting this one out.
By Taylor Gates FULL REVIEW

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5.9
57% Positive
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26% Mixed
6 Ratings
17% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 23 User Ratings
5.9
57% Positive
13 Ratings
26% Mixed
6 Ratings
17% Negative
4 Ratings

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TVJerry
Aug 16, 2024
Elizabeth Banks plays a popular Hollywood aesthetician who's about to launch her own skincare line (supposedly based on a real person). When a rival facialist (Luis Gerardo Méndez) moves across the street, things start to get weird and even dangerous. Enter intriguing new friend (Lewis Pullman) to help her. Banks runs the gamut of emotions in this role, creating a compelling-but-flawed person, while Pullman creates an interesting take on a sketchy character. It's not clear from the beginning that this will turn into a dark story of paranoia and sabotage. The film seems to spin its wheels for a while, but once the plot thickens, so does the tension. It's never a thriller and sometimes goes in weird directions, but the ultimate outcome proves surprisingly effective. Weirdly, the credits say it was shot in LA and Italy, but it all looks like Cali to me.
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Production Company Jalapeno Goat, Lady Bacardi Media
Release Date Aug 16, 2024
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
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Tagline It's just a little cover-up.
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