69%User score 69 percent
Skin
2019 · Drama · Crime
User Score
322 votes
A sharp, sophisticated, funny, sexy, compassionate picture.
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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CinemaSerf
July 16, 2025
This was always my favourite of the early slew of films commissioned by Channel Four. At the time it was trendy to make sure that every film was “edgy” and determined to make some sort of social point about the supposed iniquities of “Thatcherism”. This one is a bit more subtle about that, presenting an hybrid of a love story married with a critique on a racially charged environment in which the thuggish and the vena…
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