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  • Starring: Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Marina de Van
  • Summary: A haunting and riveting exploration of the human body as a boundary -- and a battleground -- between the individual and the often unreachable world outside. (Wellspring Media)

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    90
    Without deploying reductive backstory or simplistic psychology, this fearless movie -- easily the year's best debut feature -- illuminates Esther's pathology as an extreme response to the mind-body split.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    60
    Spectacularly grotesque and literally nauseating, even for this usually intrepid moviegoer, In My Skin is among the more disturbing films in this blood-drenched cinematic season.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    It's a silly, if simultaneously deadpan and stomach-churning, psychological portrait of one crazy lady.

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