Miu haan fook wood (Second Time Around) Reviews
San Francisco Examiner
In addition to the overcooked, ham-fisted direction, which has all the actors reaching for the back row, the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry.
Top CriticApparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap.
IFilm
Has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of General Hospital.
New Times
Vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Despite some strong performances, never rises above the level of a telanovela.
The sort of picture in which, whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do, they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset.
Film Journal International
It's sincere to a fault, but, unfortunately, not very compelling or much fun.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Movies like this are selling the old European candor, the old wink of 'bold' revelation. But in 2002, such revelations wilt.
[Javier Bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film, which director Gerardo Vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama.
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| Original Score: 2/4
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy.
| Original Score: 1.5/4
Reel.com
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Vera's three actors -- Mollà, Gil and Bardem -- excel in insightful, empathetic performances.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of Truffaut.
