Mysterious Skin

Name: Mysterious Skin
Director: Gregg Araki
Released: 2005

4.83

Synopsis

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

100
Christian Science Monitor
This thoughtful, troubling drama is leagues above the sensationalistic stuff Araki peddled in earlier films.
90
The New York Times
A gorgeous, heartbreaking and utterly convincing work of art.
88
New York Post
Not for the squeamish, but it is a beautifully crafted and thoughtful film that genuinely provokes.
80
Village Voice
With remarkable directness and composure, it shatters the myth of childhood innocence and the deathless taboo of prepubescent sexuality.
70
Variety
By turns spiky and lyrical, this unsettling drama will be anathema to many audiences, but is bound to be a provocative, talked-about release.
70
The A.V. Club
Only half a great movie, because the other half follows a separate but related thread that isn't nearly as compelling.
70
TV Guide Magazine
It's an ideal collaboration: A stylish director desperately seeking substance transforms the first, somewhat flat novel of a promising young writer into powerful and brutally honest film about a highly controversial subject.
63
New York Daily News
A well-conceived story that is very hard to shake.