A superb soundtrack, great performances and just a hint of controversy, this is Almodóvar on top form.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2024

Almodovar’s simple script reveals itself in complex ways, asking the audience to empathize with his characters in situations that seem unusual, but feel all too human.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 4, 2022

Almodovar's unique vision creates a sensual, extravagant world of its own.

| Aug 18, 2022

Almodóvar glibly, superficially and without opposition presents contemporary Spain as a series of beautiful images, largely devoid of a social context.

| Mar 5, 2021

Talk to Her is all about making connections; how we interact with people and the reasons why we make the relationships that we do.

| Aug 3, 2020

The film sways between different forms of love - from tender, unconditional affection to obsession and mania.

| Apr 29, 2020

Unfortunately, the Spanish enfant terrible's iconoclastic artistic hysteria never rises to the surface in Talk to Her.

| Feb 4, 2020

It earns its R rating but it is a thoughtful unique depiction of that line between love and obsession.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 12, 2019

no other current director blends comedy and drama as smoothly or with as much flair

| Original Score: A- | Mar 9, 2010

Humanity is intricate, contradictory, fathomless here, and the filmmaking just as rich.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 16, 2009

Almodovar uses the characters' unlikely predicaments to show how we define ourselves by narration, but his story is so overdetermined that ultimately the two men seem as constrained as their brain-dead sweethearts.

| Jan 11, 2008

It's Almodovar's most mature and mysterious movie.

| Nov 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The carefully constructed story of two comatose women and the men who love them is overflowing with compelling meditations on the nature of communication and relationships.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 6, 2006

The film combines sensuality, spirituality and sheer joy in storytelling in marvellously harmonious proportions.

| Feb 9, 2006

I found it slow to get into. But I hung in there and am glad I did because eventually it grabbed me and I ended up enjoying it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: A | Aug 7, 2004

Very few directors could get away with making a film like this, but Almodovar not only gets away with it, he delivers a masterpiece.

| Aug 7, 2004

It's a brave movie and a mature undertaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2004

Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 10, 2004