75
Almodovar has created an ecstatic homage to the women who have inspired him all his life.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
88
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
This is more than a movie: It's Almodovar's design for living.
88
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Some will find the movie's sexual antics too explicit and unconventional for comfort.
100
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Almodovar is adept at weaving together strands you'd never guess would match.
88
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
Almodovar still populates his work with characters you'll see nowhere else in movies.
80
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak
As dark as a Greek tragedy yet it has a vibrance and joie de vivre that can't be contained by grief.
90
Funny and wise, lively and contemplative, intriguingly postmodern and powerfully moving, all at the same time. It's not to be missed.
63
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
The work of a talented filmmaker coasting on his own fumes.
90
So intrinsically rich that it doesn't need any metaphors.