Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Like everything else in this superb work of art, ''Shrinking Lover'' is exquisitely Almodóvarian. It's funny, tender, a little shocking, and it pays homage to what we know about movies: that they can move us beyond words.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

One of Almodóvar's most challenging pictures, jumping around in time and sending a large gallery of characters through a wide variety of situations -- will find him again at the peak of his powers.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

The actors are outstanding, illuminating four different views of loneliness. But it's Camara's tour-de-force performance that anchors the film, that shocks and unnerves us.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

When it's over, the realization of how much the movie means to you really sinks in; you can't get it out of your heart.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Beautiful (sometimes sublimely so), daring (sometimes outrageously so), seriously crazed and terrifically funny.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Great filmmakers push their ideas and characters to the limit, unafraid of consequences - which is what Pedro Almodovar has done in Talk To Her, his latest film and, I think, his best.

Dallas Observer by Andy Klein

No one can blend melodrama and heightened emotion with laugh-out-loud wackiness the way Almodóvar does.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Talk to Her is as melodramatic -- and, sporadically, as funny -- as any Almodóvar comedy, but its mood is one of muted, aching loneliness, while the color scheme leans less to hot reds and magentas than to rich, elegant shades of ochre.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Like taking a drug everyone says is dynamite and impatiently wondering why the heck it's not kicking in. The kick in fact turns out to be real, and as powerful as advertised, but it doesn't necessarily hit you in any way you anticipated.

The New Yorker by David Denby

Almodóvar has brought an extraordinary calm to the surface of his work. The imagery is smooth and beautiful, the colors are soft-hued and blended. Past and present flow together; everything seems touched with a subdued and melancholy magic. [25 November 2002, p. 108]

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

Pure cinematic intoxication, a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama, tastelessness and swooning elegance, bodies with the texture of fresh peaches, and angular faces Picasso would have loved.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

This quiet yet jolting meditation on love, obsession, loneliness, friendship and fate has the quality to entrance you through a first viewing, and compel you to take its themes and characters home with you for further consideration.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

This ode to the peculiar strength and flexibility of love, romantic and platonic, is simultaneously perverse, overwrought, deeply creepy and truly moving, a high-wire act that finds humor in the grotesque and hope in emotional malformation.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Odd, moving, strained cinematic poetry.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

Talk to Her affects some people very deeply, while others, like me, find it high-grade kitsch.