Skincare

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Skincare

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2024

1h 34m

Mystery & Thriller

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Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, but her personal and work lives are challenged when rival facialist Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo Méndez) opens a new skincare boutique directly across from her store. She starts to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage her reputation and business, and together with her friend Jordan (Lewis Pullman) she embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of who is trying to destroy her life.

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Critics Consensus

Skincare's script could use some rejuvenation, but Elizabeth Banks' superb performance gives this thriller its own kind of radiance.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

11/08/2024

3/5

A worthy contribution to the growing microgenre of female-led beauty-themed horror, and some of us out here are ready for more.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

09/16/2024

This gets a lot about L.A. right.

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Peter Travers

ABC News

08/23/2024

Beauty can be an ugly business so it’s too bad this tense, fitfully funny satire about vanity scammers only goes skin deep. But it’s all flowers for Elizabeth Banks who is sheer bonkers perfection as a cosmetics control freak losing control.

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Jaylan Salah

Geek Vibes Nation

Jul 16

Skincare struggles a little with its tone and pace but keeps a positive vibe on its shoulder, trying to lighten a rather grim subject matter by making it part of a tapestry of a larger narrative point.

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Anna Hoang

Boston Hassle

07/13/2025

3/5

[It] has the opportunity to dig underneath the venom seeping in with the sellers and the consumers...[but only goes] so far past the epidermis of psychological thrillers.

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Matt Pais

MattPais.com

07/07/2025

C

Don’t worry if you have no interest in makeup or skin treatments or even either of those things as a metaphor; neither does “Skincare,” an extremely average thriller in which nothing is complicated and nothing much is concealed.

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Google

Oct 17

Crazy that this was true. Good acting by Nathan Fillion. I wanted to slap him.

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Ethan

10/24/2024

Really fun to support these IFC films they are fun and inexpensive for a consumer to have a fun time with I appreciate that a lot

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Kera W

@RT83583732 09/02/2024

Skincare is a hidden gem! The multiple themes shown in this film including jealousy, paranoia, and feminine rage, career driven, gender equality, and equal protection dominance. I enjoyed the vibrant tone and colors within the cinematography and script. - Clearly Entertainment

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Indira Gutierrez

08/30/2024

Funny, yet dark, with suspenseful aspects. An interesting film about image obsession, paranoia, and ego.

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See A Lot

08/21/2024

The movie was interesting and better than I espected.

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Jill V C

08/21/2024

It will be streaming on tv in 2 months save your time and money. It was rather dumb, and not particularly interesting or entertaining.

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Synopsis

Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, but her personal and work lives are challenged when rival facialist Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo Méndez) opens a new skincare boutique directly across from her store. She starts to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage her reputation and business, and together with her friend Jordan (Lewis Pullman) she embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of who is trying to destroy her life.

Director: Austin Peters
Producer: Logan Lerman, Jonathan Schwartz
Screenwriter: Sam Freilich, Austin Peters, Deering Regan
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment, Jalapeno Goat
Rating: R (Graphic Nudity|Brief Drug Use|Language Throughout|Sexual Content|Some Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 16, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 3, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $456.0K
Runtime: 1h 34m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1