With Pain and Glory, Almadovar may have made his best film since Talk to Her.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Pain and Glory is the year’s most powerful depiction of reconciliation, and a commentary on the art of moviemaking as a portrait of one’s soul, all summarized in what may be the best final shot of the entire year.

| Jul 9, 2024

Many meta films can be so insightful to a creator’s life, but this might be one of the most beautiful films in the sub-genre.

| Apr 4, 2024

Pain and Glory, oscillates between constant antagonisms that cross the protagonist's feelings and function dialectically: Eros and Thanatos. The entire story expose the view of Salvador (Almodóvar's alter-ego) about his past.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 27, 2024

In addition to the stellar performances and sumptuous cinematography, Pain and Glory is a compassionate and realistic portrait of the bittersweet realities inseparable from a life near completion.

| Jul 20, 2023

The number one movie of the year was undoubtedly the magnificent Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria).

| Dec 7, 2022

Antonio Banderas in Pain & Glory gives a stunning, career-defining performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Pedro Almodovar finds a perfect and surprising match in Antonio Banderas.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 18, 2022

…essential for the director’s fans, but perhaps a little dry and self-absorbed for the general public...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2022

Far removed from the restlessly stylistic mode of his earlier work, Pain and Glory shows the filmmaker exercising patience and dimension, resulting in a feature that emphasizes the essential place of cinema in his life.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

It is beautifully and richly textured.

| Sep 16, 2021

If it looks and sounds cinematic, Almódovar shows an uncharacteristic level of restraint in his storytelling. For fans of the director, this will come as a satisfying treat, but is likely to leave newcomers to his cannon somewhat cold.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Stripped of Almodóvar's signature kitsch aesthetic and larger-than-life narratives, the film becomes a powerful confessional tale on the nature of storytelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Exteandia's Alberto steals the spotlight from Banderas' Salvador. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 6, 2021

A career-best performance from Antonio Banderas. Pedro Almodóvar provides us with a complex emotional story of personal growth and exploration​.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 5, 2021

Without his noted frivolity and transgressiveness, how much is there to Almodóvar's work? Entire stretches of Pain and Glory are terribly dull, flat and mundane.

| Feb 10, 2021

"The film may seem to start as a film filled with regret and looking at your past but instead finishes within an incredible sense of optimism"

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 27, 2020

Pain and Glory is Pedro Almodovar looking back at his own storied career, one full of personal choices, refusals, and decisions that defined who he is.

| Nov 10, 2020

Antonio Banderas... is tremendously layered as the despondent Salvador.

| Sep 23, 2020

The most autobiographic of Almodovar's films, not only because of the story but also of the cast [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2020