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Pain and Glory finds writer-director Pedro Almodóvar drawing on his own life to rewarding effect -- and honoring his craft as only a master filmmaker can.
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Almodóvar shows us that, even after nearly two dozen features over several decades, he can still hold an audience in his hand - and surprise it. Nov 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Almodóvar shows us that, even after nearly two dozen features over several decades, he can still hold an audience in his hand - and surprise it.
Moira MacDonald
A masterful, melancholy, tender, lacerating self-examination, filled with colour and light and the ghosts of those he has loved. Almodovar at 70, and perhaps astonishing to himself, continues to grow. Nov 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A masterful, melancholy, tender, lacerating self-examination, filled with colour and light and the ghosts of those he has loved. Almodovar at 70, and perhaps astonishing to himself, continues to grow.
Paul Byrnes
Antonio Banderas gives his best, most committed performance in years as a film director looking back over his life in "Pain and Glory," a typically rich, layered film from director Pedro Almodóvar. Oct 24, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Antonio Banderas gives his best, most committed performance in years as a film director looking back over his life in "Pain and Glory," a typically rich, layered film from director Pedro Almodóvar.
Adam Graham
There's plenty of artfulness on display in the intertwining of life and what gets made of it, but also a fair helping of artifice. Art imitating life, but also improving it a bit. Oct 18, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There's plenty of artfulness on display in the intertwining of life and what gets made of it, but also a fair helping of artifice. Art imitating life, but also improving it a bit.
Matthew Lickona
"Pain and Glory" stays with you, and grows richer with reflection. Oct 17, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
"Pain and Glory" stays with you, and grows richer with reflection.
Randy Cordova
It's one more example here of Almodóvar's ability to take pairs - not just people, but concepts (like, say, present and past, or pain and glory) - and happily join them. Oct 17, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's one more example here of Almodóvar's ability to take pairs - not just people, but concepts (like, say, present and past, or pain and glory) - and happily join them.
Mark Feeney
Pain and Glory is like getting a letter from Almodovar, but what's here is not all in words. He may not quite be the last filmmaker left who understands the power of color, but his eye has little equal; he notices the harmony of colors. Nov 21, 2019 | Full Review…
Pain and Glory is like getting a letter from Almodovar, but what's here is not all in words. He may not quite be the last filmmaker left who understands the power of color, but his eye has little equal; he notices the harmony of colors.
Richard von Busack
Far from Almodóvar's masterpiece, but there couldn't be a finer capstone to his career than this reckoning with what that career has brought him to. Nov 20, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Far from Almodóvar's masterpiece, but there couldn't be a finer capstone to his career than this reckoning with what that career has brought him to.
Tim Brayton
The cast and the direction, particularly the shifting moods, make the film worth several viewings. Nov 19, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The cast and the direction, particularly the shifting moods, make the film worth several viewings.
Damien Straker
Almodóvar pleads allegory and the question the film asks, and the filmmaker-within-the-film unwittingly asks, is: how does one maintain or rediscover not only desire, but also first desire? The spark. The fire. The riveting earliest impulses and insights. Nov 17, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Almodóvar pleads allegory and the question the film asks, and the filmmaker-within-the-film unwittingly asks, is: how does one maintain or rediscover not only desire, but also first desire? The spark. The fire. The riveting earliest impulses and insights.
Ray Pride
There is jubilation and wonder to be found in these remembrances, moments of pure bliss that are beyond imagining. Nov 16, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
There is jubilation and wonder to be found in these remembrances, moments of pure bliss that are beyond imagining.
Sara Michelle Fetters
Both emotionally dextrous and finely paced. Nov 15, 2019 | Full Review…
Both emotionally dextrous and finely paced.
George Elkind
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