skin-deep

Dawn is as skin-deep as it gets, a character with no discernible motives and a frustrating absence of realism in a film that’s desperately aiming for authenticity.

Because of this, Trump has been able to disrupt and expose that they are merely skin-deep.

More central than the gross-out factor is a wry statement of disability pride, a reminder that swagger needn’t be skin-deep.

The story may be only skin-deep, but Banks and Pullman find something truthfully hopeless in these surface pleasures.”

But the most spirited discussions at Cannes are over whether the movie is trenchant or skin-deep.