SKINCARE (in theatres)

The bludgeoning skin care industry globally generates over 144 billion USD$ and climbing; Generation Z (between 12 & 27) leading the hordes of consumers.

Director/writer Austin Peters gets targeted aspects of faux LA glamour on the “nose”: quest for beauty and perpetual youth; strappings of wealth (cars, flashy, fur-trimmed ensembles) pneumatic chests, plasticity pulsates on creaseless faces with eyelashes destined to maim and fingernails to finish the job. Despite a few necessary “exfoliations” , “Skincare” is a hydrating romp that scores because of the deft, adroit, acuity of Elizabeth Banks; as the skin care queen of Hollywood, “Hope Goldman”, she is a façade, an empty vessel defined by her products,  warding off the inevitable; she is at her pinnacle, launching her own line of “promises”, upended by her collision with competitor “Angel” (“shimmering” Luis Gerardo Mendez) portending the toppling of her legacy. Banks imbues the role with blind ambition, naïve justification of her queenly status, crushing insecurity and foolhardy trust in the obvious scammer. An unparalleled, peerless characterization.

Notwithstanding a few wrinkles, “Skincare” is a purifying example of beauty forever, regardless of staving off remedies, “lies in the eye of the beholder”.

THREE STARS!!!

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