GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

MartinHafer "Skeletons" is a very strange little British film--one with a lot to offer but also very confusing and slow. It's a movie you might just want to see twice. David (Ed Gaughan) and Bennett (Andrew Buckley) are two psychic workers who work for some unknown agency or company. They travel about the UK ridding people of the skeletons in their closet--sort of like exorcising unpleasant secrets and angst. However, they come upon a case where their gadgets and skills don't seem to be working. A woman's husband has been missing for years and she spends all her time digging about the property looking for his grave....and the investigators come to try to rid the family of this skeleton. But there is much more to the case and the mute daughter is far more knowledgeable about all this.This film is almost like a comedy with most of the funny stuff removed. Instead, it comes off as quirky and odd. I really liked Gaughan and Buckley--these paunchy, ordinary looking guys were quite entertaining. But the story itself left me a bit flat...and occasionally confused. You'll figure it all out eventually...but it's a movie that is occasionally a challenge. Worth seeing, perhaps...if you are very patient and don't mind a strange independent film which, at times, seems a bit rudderless.

neil hurn There are a fair number of brilliant, unusual, quirky films out there. Some of them are very well known, like Field of Dreams. Others not quite as well known such as like Little Miss Sunshine, The Station Agent, Shaolin Soccer, etc, etc. The thing that all of those films have in common, is that no matter how odd the story, and context, the characters are those whom you can care about and emotionally invest in. And they tackle big themes like loss and redemption, moral complexity etc in a way which is ultimately cathartic and uplifting. Skeletons, is as brilliant and enjoyable as any of the aforementioned films. All of the actors are superb, and the unusual story is captivating from beginning to end. A hidden and delightful gem.

Andrew Beswick I stumbled across this movie late one night, and am so glad I gave it the time it deserved. It's enchanting, mysterious with enough twists and excellent acting and interplay between the two lead actors. As jobbing and somewhat jaded psychics, one who is troubled and one over sensitive and caring, they work as a great team and drawing the viewer into their strange world of insight and mystery. The soundtrack alone is just amazing, with a quirky almost french movie feel to it mixed in with eastern power, married with the visuals and emotions of this film makes for a sublime, cult classic that deserves more appreciation and love. watch this movie if you like oddball, quirky intelligent stuff...

bob the moo Things start out oddly in this film – and it is a way that they pretty much continues for the rest of the film. We join two odd British characters who take the service they provide to clients around the UK with all the enthusiasm and customer-care that you would expect from travelling service people quite tired of their lot. The service they provide, we gradually learn, is to extract secrets from the psychic channels in the house for people who want all their skeletons out of their closet. It is an odd skill and one which the bitter Simon abuses as he spends his free time accessing the warm, safe memories he has rather than living in the moment. When their boss gives them an unusual job, they come up against challenges, but solving them could prove to be worse.Although it takes a minute to get a grip on what is happening, I did like the way that the film doesn't do a lot of exposition for the viewer but rather lets us work it out by watching. Likewise I liked that the detail of the how's and what's was just left there along with the technical dialogue – because in a way these things don't really matter once you have the idea. And it is a good idea and it does translate into a nice film that is interesting throughout. Sadly that's where my descriptive words tail off because I wasn't left with much more than that. I did "like" the film but yet not as much as I had hoped and it never went beyond being "interested" in it – it didn't ever move me or excite me.I know for some that the oddity of it all will be part of the reasons they love it but for me that was not enough and I found myself waiting for the film to deliver on these interesting concepts and odd atmosphere. It kinda does but again only in a way that is oddly interesting, not brilliant or really engaging. As a drama I wanted it to have more to move me or hold my attention. As a comedy it is gently comic but never more than this. Like I said, it is an odd film whose downfall is that it is odd to the point that this oddity is the only quality where one feels it is delivering on to its fullest potential. It is hard to describe and I'm sure those that love the film will rage at me but I've not really been able to find any comments by people who love this film that do not include a lot about how "wonderfully odd" it is or similar comments about how refreshing it is and how much better than Hollywood etc etc. Different can be good but different is mostly just different.The performances are great though. Adamsdale and Buckley are both good together and also produce odd characters without losing sight of them being real people at heart – they are not played for laughs because of who they are, although the laughs may come. They are matched in their weirdness by Isaacs, Middleton, Steen and a few others, all of whom do good work and seem to judge their performances well for the material and tone of the film, I just wished the material had been a little stronger in terms of what the film was trying to do with the ideas (beyond being odd).So Skeletons turns out to be an interesting little curio that has good ideas and a very odd and comic tone. It doesn't produce a lot of laughs, drama, thrills or emotion though and, as much as I liked the weird feel and the plot, I did keep wanting it to delivery something else to me – but it is something that (if you haven't already guessed) I'm struggling to put my finger on.