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Marull's Pilar is quietly powerful and agonizingly terrorized as the '50s-style wife muted and bound by duty.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
This tale of domestic abuse breaks little new stylistic or psychological ground, but it is a searing, well-acted drama that should strike universal chords.
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Handles the subject of domestic violence with intelligence and compassion.
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Harrowing, psychologically astute drama.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
The director, Iciar Bollain, who wrote the screenplay with Alicia Luna, invests Antonio with humanity, which would be more impressive if she had paid more attention to exploring the darker recesses of Pilar's inner life.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
An extraordinarily truthful and piercing drama.
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Take My Eyes might look and sound like an earnest message movie, but its bone-deep understanding of the tricky psychology of abuse feels effortlessly authentic.
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Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
If Take My Eyes explored how a woman could still feel for a man who abused her, it might have gripped us with its difficult truths. But the movie presents Pilar and Antonio's marriage as a stale, neurotic dead end.
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The story isn't exactly new, but Bollain, an actress in her own right, keeps Take My Eyes from sinking into clichés.