A quirky low-budget British comedy that's got a whole lot more going for it than that categorisation might threaten,
Skeletons is an unassuming charmer of a film, with two exorcists of sorts trudging from house to house in the northern countryside like bickering insurance salesmen to purge clients' lives of psychic knots. Then they come up against a real hurdle with a family odder than their metier is.
It could be truly irksome if it played up the life-lesson sentiment any more or broadened the humour, and you can bet your bottom dollar a US remake would fail on both counts, but its very Britishness keeps both in check and it ends up rather sweet instead, even if it raises no more than the occasional smile or eyebrow.
6/10
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