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Almodóvar Gets Duplicitous With 'Broken Embraces'new
Broken Embraces is a strange little suspense film. It contains only a few strategic betrayals and outright deceptions, but a great many unspoken secrets and many lies of omission. Maybe it's too mature for the good old double-cross, but it is certainly not too subtle to include a few revelations and theatrical set pieces.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Sean Stewart |
01-14-2010 |
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'Broken Embraces' Turns Cameras on Visionary Filmmakersnew
Two new films about filmmaking put plenty of talent on display – and share Penélope Cruz at her most attractive – without fully engaging their audiences. Pedro Almodóvar's melodrama Broken Embraces turns out to be a little too personal, while Rob Marshall's musical head-trip Nine may not be personal enough.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
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Tags: Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar
Women's Worknew
The opening shots of Almodovar's lyrical, emotionally lush Volver feature a band of women, young and old, vigorously scrubbing down the tombs of their provincial town's menfolk.
Style Weekly |
Thomas Peyser |
02-08-2007 |
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Female Troublenew
Penelope Cruz's magnificent, Oscar-nominated performance also marks a welcome return to Spain from the wife-and-girlfriend ghetto of her disappointing Hollywood sojourn.
Coming Homenew
Almodovar plumbs the feminine mystique — again.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
01-25-2007 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
A Celebration of Womennew
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodovar, and Volver is his ode of love to women's congress and fortitude.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Care Bearers
Pedro Almodovar celebrates communities of female mutual support in Volver.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-15-2007 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Mommie Deadestnew
Volver achieves a hollow perfection.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-22-2006 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Back to La Manchanew
By anyone else's standards, Almodovar's latest would be great instead of just really good.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-03-2006 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Extra Creditnew
Almodovar makes good with Bad Education.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
02-18-2005 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
An Unsentimental Educationnew
Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-05-2005 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Pedro Almodovar Goes Deep in Newest Flicknew
Almodovar's latest film manages to balance queeny bravado and a malaise so deeply buried it approaches the hysteria of classic Hollywood melodramas. Married to gay misbehavior, this makes for a heady brew.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-21-2005 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Head of the Classnew
Almodóvar's latest film is a lurid, contrived, gratuitously sexy (especially homo-sexy) thriller with a smirk on its face and a cigarette holder sinking hot ash into the shag carpet.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
12-22-2004 |
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Murder and Masksnew
Almodovar takes a plunge into film noir, where false identities mean more than the criminal truth.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
12-22-2004 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Misdirectednew
The Spanish director's latest is a movie about a movie, which Almodóvar addresses with his usual strengths -- zest, humor, and sharp visual beauty -- as well as his weaknesses, including the failure to acknowledge the gravity of his subject.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Melissa Levine |
11-30-2004 |
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