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

| Nov 4, 2021

Exploding off the screen in a blast of colour and compassion, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta is one of 2016's cinematic treasures.

| Aug 27, 2018

Despite its shorter length, the film never feels unfulfilled or abbreviated. Its terrific performances, beautiful narrative, and haunting score... are so immersive that decades of life go by without it ever dragging.

| Original Score: A | Mar 22, 2017

Surez gives a searing performance in the lead role, her grief overwhelming her to the point where she physically wears it on her body.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 10, 2017

Almodvar makes a game effort to replicate Munro's complex, nonchronological storytelling, though the three tales don't hang together as well as one might hope.

| Feb 2, 2017

Julieta is superb, and to say any more could potentially ruin any number of its more intimate surprises.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 27, 2017

Straightforward and yet emotionally complex, the film is Almodvar's most sobering work to date, a mystery about a daughter's abandonment of her mother without explanation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2017

"Julieta" is a paean to longing, regret and the often painful experience of being human.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2017

"Julieta" is filled with Almodvar's usual attention to vivid color (a turquoise turtleneck worn by young Julieta seems to add notes to the film's moody musical score), and to the ways women talk to each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 25, 2017

Pedro Almodvar's latest isn't his strongest, but his vibrant, vivid world of women is always a great place to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2017

The moral of the story is clear: watch out for morals. They corrode the aforementioned generosity and understanding, leaving us lonely and bereft.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2017

It's no surprise that "Julieta" is marvelous to look at, but it possesses just as much substance as style.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2017

The director of films like "Talk to Me," "Volver," "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" and "All About My Mother" has made a movie a bit more reserved, but still richly satisfying.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 12, 2017

When the effusive Pedro Almodvar adapts the minimalist Alice Munro, he reveals the passions seething under the bleakness of the latter's monotone mid-Canada.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2017

Julieta may not be one of Almodvar's best efforts but it is still quite good, and that's no insult. It's a haunting story that's well worth seeing

| Jan 5, 2017

There's not a scene in this film in which there is not both something to see and an acting moment to savor, as well as some nuance or implication or suggestion to ponder.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 5, 2017

After a while, past and present create an alluring and sorrowful continuum.

| Original Score: B | Dec 30, 2016

Julieta is an enthralling meditation on the mechanics of memory and grief that will delight the sort of person who uses "Almodvarian" as an adjective.

| Dec 29, 2016

Surez and Ugarte both do remarkable work in the midst of another complex, unblinking character study told in the language of classic movies and playing out in the sort of striking colors usually found only in dreams.

| Dec 23, 2016

Almodovar has little time to develop these characters' emotional ties because there is so much clutter in his plot, a soap opera full of improbable coincidences, premature deaths and sad declines.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 23, 2016