Julieta is the latest film by the talented Pedro Almodóvar, which narrates one of the most primary bonds of humanity: the mother-child relationship (daughter in this case), thus marking the director's return to "mother melodrama"

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jan 12, 2024

Plain and simple, Almodovar has a remarkable way in which his films extract emotionality and sensual ardor from mundane settings and artful melodrama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

While the dramatic arc’s velocity often stalls in the front half, Julieta accrues some real emotional heft as it explores a parent-child dynamic with no happy parties and no easy solution.

| Jan 18, 2023

It’s a joy to watch a master of the peak of their form, and Almodóvar’s work in Julieta is masterful and bold.

| Dec 21, 2022

Although Almódovar's cinematic adaptation is set in Madrid, a world away from the bleakness of Canadian landscape, described in Munro's stories as "Rocks, trees, water, snow" Julieta shares the same random intersections of fate.

| Nov 30, 2021

Who knows the heart of women better than Director Pedro Almódovar? Stunning performances, complex characters, brilliance!

| Nov 4, 2021

Like so many Almodóvar films, the emotional revelations are heightened by vibrant visuals and impeccable style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2021

Almodóvar's film, unhappily, does not add up to that much. It is overwrought, preoccupied with an upper middle class milieu, whose emotional vocabulary and behavior feel largely contrived.

| Feb 22, 2021

Even in our resolve, though, we are not in control. Julieta's story illustrates the ways in which we blindly revisit upon others the pain we have received in our lives.

| Jan 4, 2021

There are lovely individual moments and sentiments in Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta, but these touches fail to cohere into a satisfying whole.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2020

Almodóvar's supposed maturity is more stiff than ever. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 26, 2020

This is not my favorite Almodovar 21-century work... but I'm grateful one of the film world's high-wire acts continues to produce at such a fantastic level.

| Jun 9, 2020

Warm, sexy, tense, and stunning in its choice of locations.

| May 1, 2020

I don't wish to spoil the surprises Julieta has to offer. Suffice to say the emotional punches are consistent and land more often than not.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Though we never find out if Julieta and Antía reconcile, a strong hope pervades and the cathartic release we long desire is just around the bend.

| Original Score: 3.25/5 | Dec 7, 2019

Director Pedro Almodóvar has devoted many of his films to strong female characters. Underneath his signature bold colors, though, his latest feature feels strangely shallow.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 16, 2019

Julieta is a must-see drama, well worth that effort to read subtitles

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 1, 2019

Julieta is emotionally resonant yet far from this auteur's best - the ingredients are all there, you'll just wish they were a little less undercooked.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2019

This is the most Almodóvar film that could have been made in recent years. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2019

Is JULIETA a new direction for Pedro Almodvar, who has made excess the hallmark of his long career?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2018