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Volver catches director Pedro Almodovar and star Penelope Cruz at the peak of their respective powers, in service of a layered, thought-provoking film.
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Volver disappoints. Feb 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Volver disappoints.
Stanley Kauffmann
It's up to charm to twinkle our attention away from the loose threads and daytime TV plotting. Jul 2, 2009 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
It's up to charm to twinkle our attention away from the loose threads and daytime TV plotting.
Amy Nicholson
Even if Volver sounds too high-concept for you, know that Almodóvar is smart enough not to rest on laughs alone, extending his premise to dark, though occasionally tidy psychological territory. Feb 3, 2007 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review…
Even if Volver sounds too high-concept for you, know that Almodóvar is smart enough not to rest on laughs alone, extending his premise to dark, though occasionally tidy psychological territory.
Joshua Rothkopf
It's clever and entertaining. It's marvelously deft, but never daffy. It works well enough, despite feeling like the most conventional film this great, envelope-pushing Spanish director has ever made. Jan 19, 2007 | Rating: 4/5
It's clever and entertaining. It's marvelously deft, but never daffy. It works well enough, despite feeling like the most conventional film this great, envelope-pushing Spanish director has ever made.
Roger Moore
Pedro Almodóvar whipstitches a movie from patches of those mother-daughter melodramas Mildred Pierce, Bellissima and Two Women and makes it seamless and original, funny as it is fierce, breathtaking as it is life-affirming. Dec 28, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4
Pedro Almodóvar whipstitches a movie from patches of those mother-daughter melodramas Mildred Pierce, Bellissima and Two Women and makes it seamless and original, funny as it is fierce, breathtaking as it is life-affirming.
Carrie Rickey
The Return rattles its chains for a spell, but it doesn't linger -- it quickly leaves. Dec 22, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The Return rattles its chains for a spell, but it doesn't linger -- it quickly leaves.
Amy Biancolli
The film is, almost by definition, deeper, more intelligent, more nuanced and more beautifully filmed than at least 95 percent of the movies coming out of Hollywood - if not more. Jun 18, 2019 | Full Review…
The film is, almost by definition, deeper, more intelligent, more nuanced and more beautifully filmed than at least 95 percent of the movies coming out of Hollywood - if not more.
Remezcla Team
Beautiful performances, a refreshing story, and spot-on comedic timing make this a wonderful movie. Sep 12, 2017 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Beautiful performances, a refreshing story, and spot-on comedic timing make this a wonderful movie.
Candice Frederick
This is a woman's picture in the best sense of the term, anchored by bravura turns from Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Something of a departure for the Spanish auteur, it also seals his status as a cinematic master. Never that this was much in doubt. Aug 23, 2017 | Full Review…
This is a woman's picture in the best sense of the term, anchored by bravura turns from Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Something of a departure for the Spanish auteur, it also seals his status as a cinematic master. Never that this was much in doubt.
Dorothy Woodend
Almodóvar himself once again returning, with delicious self-consciousness, to an old plot. . . and reconfiguring it, as he does here even more radically than in his other recent films, in the subtle but provocative manner of his mature style. Aug 18, 2017 | Full Review…
Almodóvar himself once again returning, with delicious self-consciousness, to an old plot. . . and reconfiguring it, as he does here even more radically than in his other recent films, in the subtle but provocative manner of his mature style.
Daniel Mendelsohn
Almodóvar's phantasms are emotionally anchored so the story never gets away from its characters -- just when you suspect he might have overplayed his hand he stages a clever, surprising inversion to tie the film together. Nov 16, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
Almodóvar's phantasms are emotionally anchored so the story never gets away from its characters -- just when you suspect he might have overplayed his hand he stages a clever, surprising inversion to tie the film together.
Luke Goodsell
Almodóvar's maturity navigates not only the thin lines between comedy and drama and between body and spirit, but also between rebellion and acceptance Aug 28, 2009 | Full Review…
Almodóvar's maturity navigates not only the thin lines between comedy and drama and between body and spirit, but also between rebellion and acceptance
Fernando F. Croce
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