5/5 Loved this movie!
  by Jean (Los Angeles, CA)
I saw SKILLS LIKE THIS in Los Angeles, and I absolutely loved it - very funny, wonderful characters, and a really cool soundtrack. I highly recommend it!

5/5 A really Great Film
  by S. B. (Los Angeles, CA)
This movie is a total surprise, it is funny, earnest, and truly unique. Honestly I never knew where it was going and I was completely engaged. I can't wait to see the unknown cast in the future. It's rare to see an independent movie that is actually funny without being pretentious, preachy and or poser-hip. The soundtrack, featuring mostly unknowns, is really worth tracking down.

1/5 Stinks like ****
  by anonymous (Florida)
This is the only review I've ever done. I felt compelled when this came "recommended" in my inbox. Umm. NO! I've seen this movie. Sometimes movies made by commercial /music video directors work (Sexy Beast, Control, even Belly and Hard Candy) sometimes they are shiny, hollow vessels of nothingness save for perhaps visual histamines. This was easily the worst movie I've seen this year, and I saw Sorority House.

4/5 Turning 25
  by Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
"Skills Like This"

Turning 25

Amos Lassen

A new movie to watch for is Monty Miranda'S "Skills Like This", the story of Max Solomon. Max (Spencer Berger) is facing a crisis; he has always wanted to be a writer but on the day before his 25th birthday, he realizes that this will never happen. He becomes desperate and has reached the point in his life that he has no ideas to write about so he turns to crime which seems to give him a new passion but sends his two best friends off on a journey. Tommy (Brian T. Phelan), his slacker friend enters the job market and Dave (Gabriel Tiger man) becomes completely obsessed with writing the perfect apology letter. Throw a love interest, Lucy (Kerry Knapped), into this and decision time comes upon the group.
In only three days, the lives of out characters are turned completely upside down and all because they think that larceny might be the best and only thing they can do. This is a very funny look at how a man can become a robber at the drop of a pin. The dialog is smart and witty and the viewer is taken on a fast ride to an unknown destination. Spencer Berger is not only the stat but the writer and both his acting and his script are full of charm. His white man's Afro hair cut is amazing and the lesson of what to do when one has no talent is a winner. This is the kind of film that becomes a cult classic and it can be seen over and over and still entertain.