Second Skin(Segunda piel)

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Starts out slow but ends up engaging both heart and mind, despite occasional slips into straight melodrama.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

The movie is quiet, modest and sympathetic almost to a fault; its scenes of emotional discord, accompanied by a swooning, sniffling score, seem best suited to cable television. It's like a Lifetime movie about men.

New Times (L.A.) by David Ehrenstein

Vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

Apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

So sudsy it should have been rinsed off before being allowed into theaters.

L.A. Weekly by Ernest Hardy

Lukewarm melodrama disappoints.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Vera has created a provocative, absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Despite some strong performances, never rises above the level of a telanovela.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

But by the time events unfold, viewers will most likely have given up on this melodramatic.