The humanistic tone of this film gives it qualities of
weighty dramatic films, by tackling racial and social parallels to the ones that actually take place between the whites and blacks in South Africa.
When it debuted at various festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, «Skeleton» received mostly positive reviews, with Variety critic Geoff Berkshire writing that «the biggest surprise for audiences expecting plenty of laughs will be just how effectively both thesps handle the
weightier dramatic material in the screenplay... «The Skeleton Twins» captures the way siblings develop their own unique comedic shorthands in a way few
films ever have.»