4/5

If it isn't as successful as his very best work, neither is it a failure -- and there are certainly enough Alomodovarisms to bring a smile to anyone's face

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10/04/06

4/5

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06/25/05

B

Dramatizes the contentious relationship between fiction and reality.

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05/03/05

4/5

an archetypal romantic comedy that reshapes the mold

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04/14/05

B

I found this dramatization a mature Almodovar work, perceptive and cutting through in an incisive way to the everyday problems in life that wear people down.

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02/21/04

2.5/4

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05/14/03

N/A

The movie is full of familiar Almodovar fare, but it feels freshened.

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12/11/02

N/A

Depicts the magical turnaround in the life of a writer of romance novels.

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08/27/02

3/5

Seems to go in a dozen directions at once but ties up in the final reel into a tight, cohesive and enjoyable whole.

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06/05/02

N/A

Almodovar has created a film that offers hope to all mad lovers who need it.

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01/01/00

N/A

The film is attentive as well to the clichs that constitute reality and cinematic realism. It manages such complexities by highlighting Almodovar's own exceptional visual sensibility, which crosses over all kinds of boundaries.

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01/01/00

3/4

It's a witty, intelligent scramble, and it's beautifully mounted.

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01/01/00

2.5/4

It's bland as often as it is affecting, and presents little that's new or original.

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01/01/00

N/A

If Leo appears to be doing some more or less orthodox movie-style suffering -- crying jags, a suicide attempt and the like -- perhaps that's just what she's supposed to be doing.

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01/01/00

3.5/4

A ripe, entertaining soap opera.

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