Reviews for this film from our members:
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Notable drama humano ambientado en ese momento intermedio en el que los errores del pasado empiezan a pesar demasiado. La química descomunal entre los protagonistas principales eleva el conjunto.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: An exploration of both the complications and the life-affirming dimensions of sibling relationships.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: What makes this film work are the performances of former SNL colleagues Hader and Wiig, whose natural bond through good times and bad is one of the best depictions of siblings on screen since “You Can Count On Me,” a film which this one bears more than a little resemblance to.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: It seems unlikely that The Skeleton Twins is aiming for something so simplistic, considering how much suffering it packs into the story, but simplistic is what it is.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: ‘The Skeleton Twins’ Proves That Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Are Ready For Prime Time
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators
- Excerpt: A surprisingly earnest and emotional look at loneliness.
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘The Skeleton Twins’ is a dark comedy about estranged siblings who try to repair their relationship on the heels of personal disaster.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This could’ve been “The Stefon and Gilly Show” based on their popular sketch characters from SNL but they rein in their frenzied tendencies. Both actors’ portrayals are among the best of the year.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Funny and sad and wise and wonderful… with an absolutely heartbreaking, career-changing performance by Bill Hader.
- Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Capable of even making cynics feel, “The Skeleton Twins” is beautifully tender, gentle, melancholy and also very funny, a wonderful antidote for seasonal depression.
- Kristen Lopez @ Cinema Sentries
- Brent McKnight @ Paste Magazine
- Excerpt: Funny, touching, and heartfelt, “The Skeleton Twins” is a fantastic vehicle for its stars, and a moving portrait of the various things family can mean.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: Hader and Wiig have made a bold choice for their first major dramatic turn. Their performances as Milo and Maggie allow them to subtly tweak their own comic personas, playing the same basic types that made them famous but more or less showing what they’d be like on their worst days.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: We had inklings of thoughts that Wiig was on the verge of a dramatic breakthrough, but who knew about Bill Hader?
- [New – 1/22/15] | Sarah Ward @ FilmInk
