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Intertwining murder and seduction, Pedro Almodóvar's Matador is a provocative thriller that will shock even the most adventurous moviegoers.
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Almódovar unfolds this convoluted plot with zig-zagging surrealism and a careening, sordidly erotic energy that effectively undermines the culturally institutionalized repression targeted by the filmmaker. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
Almódovar unfolds this convoluted plot with zig-zagging surrealism and a careening, sordidly erotic energy that effectively undermines the culturally institutionalized repression targeted by the filmmaker.
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If Blue Velvet raised eyebrows, Matador will have some moviegoers blinking in disbelief. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
If Blue Velvet raised eyebrows, Matador will have some moviegoers blinking in disbelief.
Jay Boyar
One of Almodovar's better features, although, like many of the others, it partially plays the role of popularizing stronger stuff, and resorts to some contrived plot devices in order to fuse its diverse story elements. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
One of Almodovar's better features, although, like many of the others, it partially plays the role of popularizing stronger stuff, and resorts to some contrived plot devices in order to fuse its diverse story elements.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Not so much a maelstrom as a mess of contrived eroticism, pretentious dialogue, and voyeuristic sensationalism, Almodóvar's silly, cod-philosophical whodunit impresses only for its bravado. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
Not so much a maelstrom as a mess of contrived eroticism, pretentious dialogue, and voyeuristic sensationalism, Almodóvar's silly, cod-philosophical whodunit impresses only for its bravado.
Geoff Andrew
For all its jolts and bizarre flights of fancy, Matador is a marvelously fluid and darkly sensual film in which Almodovar elicits exquisitely controlled performances. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
For all its jolts and bizarre flights of fancy, Matador is a marvelously fluid and darkly sensual film in which Almodovar elicits exquisitely controlled performances.
Kevin Thomas
It's a useful look at this Spanish auteur finding his way but lacks the elan of his later work. September 22, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's a useful look at this Spanish auteur finding his way but lacks the elan of his later work.
Bill Stamets
The film is fiercely funny, executed in a reckless, raucous rage by the most wantonly gifted new filmmaker on the international scene. Almódovar relishes mocking his country's sacred cows. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
The film is fiercely funny, executed in a reckless, raucous rage by the most wantonly gifted new filmmaker on the international scene. Almódovar relishes mocking his country's sacred cows.
Peter Travers
Almodóvar celebrates the controversial potential of the medium more so than most other directors at work today. His movies get people talking and thinking. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
Almodóvar celebrates the controversial potential of the medium more so than most other directors at work today. His movies get people talking and thinking.
Candice Russell
Screamingly funny, intriguing meditation on sex and violence, delving sacrilegiosuly into the Almodovarish underpinnings of that arch Spanish ritual, the bullfight. January 30, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Screamingly funny, intriguing meditation on sex and violence, delving sacrilegiosuly into the Almodovarish underpinnings of that arch Spanish ritual, the bullfight.
Kim Newman
Bizarre, funny and unexpected. July 19, 2018 | Full Review…
Bizarre, funny and unexpected.
Harriet Waugh
Almodovar's early work is saltry, erotic, even perverse, but very seductive to watch February 16, 2013 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Almodovar's early work is saltry, erotic, even perverse, but very seductive to watch
Emanuel Levy
follows a bizarre, but ultimately logical path March 4, 2010 | Rating: B | Full Review…
follows a bizarre, but ultimately logical path
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