| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Oristrell stages funny, madcap scenes around bondage, cross-dressing and incest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2007

The film is sustained effortlessly by the charismatic Watling and Tosar, who are among Spain's most popular movie stars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2007

Laboring in the wide shadow of Almodvar and lacking much in the way of visual distinction, Unconscious compensates with its cast's full-tilt commitment to rip-snorting farce.

| Apr 12, 2007

[Billy] Wilder would have loved this razor-timed, feather-light comedy set in sexually repressed 1913 Spain.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2007

Oristrell is a modern day Woody Allen, although with a better sense of rhythm and naughty buffoonery. You'll laugh from corners of your subconscious you didn't know you had.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2007

When it is good it is very, very good, and when it's not it's mediocre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2007

Everything you always wanted to know about sex, and then some. A bawdy, early Woody Allen-esque slapstick comedy!

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007

Film is ultimately unsure of what it wants to say about modernity, psychoanalysis and all it liberates.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007

The comedy is too broad, lacking the subtlety that the film's high-brow intentions require.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2007

The Freudian farce Unconscious is paced so breathlessly that it keeps you panting to keep up with each new plot twist.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 9, 2007

Even with nothing more redeeming than a lot of good one-liners, Unconscious has a charm that your ego, superego and id can all enjoy.

| Feb 9, 2007

Are the Spanish the only ones these days able to make movie comedies that are smart, sexy, wacky and graceful all at once?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2007

The movie's message is clear: Freud's greatest contribution to society was not the idea that all little boys long to sleep with their mothers -- rather, it's the concept of the unconscious, a hidden place where our secret desires yearn to be free.

| Feb 6, 2007

The film is so opulently and noisily aestheticized it gives the illusion of being smarter than it is, though it benefits from some endearing performances.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 24, 2007

one of the most visually stunning and original movies to come along in a while.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 11, 2007

Spanish writer/director Joaquin Oristell brings 2006 to a mostly delightful close with Unconscious, a clever and sweetly risqu period farce brimming with frothy charm and tongue-in-cheek wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2006

[Director Joaquin] Oristrell's comedic sense only seems to succeed in spurts, and he often burdens the proceedings with a theatrical and contrived air that undermines the humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2006

If necessary, just see it twice: Read it the first time, watch it the second.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 7, 2006

With a little more sex and a little more comedy, this one could have really been something.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2006