FILM · Sci-Fi

Under the Skin

Name: Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Genre: Sci-Fi
Released: 2013

2013 · 1h 48m · ★ 6.3 · 15

Something wearing a woman’s body drives a van through Glasgow, watching, luring, learning. Glazer’s hypnotic alien gaze turned on us.

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Sample reviews written for this prototype, not quotes from the publications named.

“Johansson drifts through Glasgow like a question the city can’t answer. Cinema as abduction.”

★★★★★— Sight & Sound

“Glazer strips the alien story to pure sensation: chilly, hypnotic, impossible to shake off.”

★★★★☆— Little White Lies