Scarlett Johansson stars in director Jonathan Glazer's adaptation of Michel Faber's psychosexual novel about an alien woman who falls to Earth in Scotland.

Scarlett Johansson is an alienated alien in this stunning avante-garde masterpiece

Although Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hardy drift through their respective turns in Under the Skin and Locke down two disparate roads, they both ultimately arrive in the same desolate place

Visionary inventiveness is such a lost art in contemporary cinema that impatient audiences may bolt for the exits at Under the Skin. Those who stick it out and let Jonathan Glazer's film flood their senses are in for something extraordinary.

The Other has become Johansson’s go-to mode, whether in “Her” or as an alien seductress in “Under the Skin.”

Although Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hardy drift through their respective turns in Under the Skin and Locke down two disparate roads, they both ultimately arrive in the same desolate place

Scarlett Johansson is the blank alien who prowls for earthmen in this spare and disorienting genre smash-up.

Jonathan Glazer's long-awaited tale of an intergalactic sucubus gives Scarlett Johansson a chance to flex her acting muscles

After you've seen Under the Skin, come back and listen to our Spoiler Special with Dana Stevens and Dan Kois: “Do you have family here?” “Do you live a ...

★★★★★ Like the predatory alien siren of his latest offering, British director Jonathan Glazer is not one to be rushed. It was just short...

Scarlett Johansson as a sexy alien may suggest a yawnsome rip-off of Species. However, this mysterious masterpiece seduces you into a very different twilight zone of unforgettable sci-fi strangeness.

Director Jonathan Glazer's latest film, his first in 10 years, is a puzzling and creepy look at an alien entity hunting men in Scotland. Starring Scarlett Johansson!

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ET landed in the cosy American suburbs and wanted to go home. Now Scarlett Johansson – or something that looks like her – lands in modern Glasgow and thinks abo

*** Under the Skin A pretty good “Twilight Zone” idea -- a beautiful alien (blank-faced Scarlett Johansson) stalks Scotland searching for male prey -- is given a visionary midnight movie treatment by director Jonathan Glazer. The movie’s a cinematic puzzle that snaps together surprisingly easily yet whose larger meanings remain tantalizingly out of reach. (108 min., R) (Ty Burr)

★★★★★ Following an almost decade-long absence – his last film, the controversial Birth, was released in 2004 – director Jonathan Glazer returns with his...

Scarlett Johansson, who gave the best performance of her career while appearing only as a voice in “Her,’’ is far less effective as an extraterrestrial...

Let me begin by stating that I cannot recommend Under the Skin to audiences in search of a mainstream movie experience. This film, a cryptic adaptation of Michel Faber's novel, is all about mood and setting. It's as existential as a sci-fi/horror ...

Jonathan Glazer's long-awaited third feature is an undeniably ambitious but ultimately torpid and silly tale of an alien on the prowl.

The latest film from Jonathan Glazer, director of Sexy Beast and Birth, is a riveting piece of sexy sci-fi that manages to feel both impossible and all too real.

'Under the Skin' is the kind of movie that drives some people crazy, but also sticks in their minds.

Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi horror-flick, starring Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial roaming Glasgow in a white van, picking up men, is visually stunning and deeply disturbing

What most matters to Glazer is articulating through visual and aural enticement the unconscious power of our death drive.

Quiet, cryptic and never less than creepy, "Under the Skin" is sci-fi that doesn't do the work for you. There are no explanations. No character rattles off a paragraph or three of exposition and back story. There are no names. Nobody talks at all for the first 14 minutes, and there's not much that would…

Review: Why 'Under the Skin' Is Scarlett Johansson's Craziest Performance

“Under the Skin” is a moody, atmospheric sci-fi thriller featuring Scarlett Johansson.

A sexy space alien hunts men in Scotland in this extraordinary malarial dream from Jonathan Glazer, writes Xan Brooks

One of the world's most desirable woman lures men to their death in a film that may put most viewers to sleep