Almodóvar and his cinematographer have a superb handling of space and rhythm. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 9, 2021

A cause célèbre.

| Sep 14, 2021

...this is a must-see for anyone who loves glamour and refined actressing.

| Sep 10, 2021

[Almodóvar breaks] the fourth wall in the only way that a filmmaker can do it: showing the stage to remember that this is all a gimmick, a fiction. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 23, 2021

Almodovar and Swinton maintain -on the one hand- the director's usual stamp in his vindication of female resilience and dignity, and -on the other- the ductility and expressiveness of an interpreter who always shines. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 22, 2021

As the latest from Almodóvar, it's a warm slice of contained melodrama with a welcome message: even in trying times, life is what you make it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2021

Almodóvar's latest is something of a meta-film, its theatrical artifice working in tandem with its emphasis on the human instinct for performance.

| Jun 6, 2021

...empty, compelling fun. Swinton's dialogues are pronouncements, padded by the dog's mewling...

| Jun 2, 2021

The face and voice of Tilda Swinton is a luminous appendage. So dazzling is the film and so scintillating its sole actor that you can never have enough of either.

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

Swinton's performance is just absolutely riveting...

| May 24, 2021

Almodóvar brilliantly creates another female-focused world that's a curiosity of maddening, theatrical, melodramatic, verging-on-camp questions...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2021

Almodovar's film is nuanced and canny. Even the credits - spelled out in carpenter's tools - declare it to be a well-crafted confection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2021

The scenes are beautifully curated, almost like they have come from the kitsch stylings of a Wes Anderson film, but with all the Hollywood glamour of the 1930s.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 19, 2021

The film is slight - a cinematic amuse-bouche of grand gestures and Balenciaga stilettos - hanging together principally through the persona of Swinton, who is alternately passionate, highly strung, daring and submissive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2021

The end result is slight but never trite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2021

An elegant jeu d'ésprit from Almódovar, with a bleak hint that moving on from the present malaise will mean some kind of wholesale destruction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2021

Swinton is the centrepiece - the human voice of this witty, teasing movie and the human pulse as well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2021

Brief as it is, Almodóvar manages to infuse the story of the woman and her dog, abandoned by the man they both love, with a palpable sense of significance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 5, 2021

The monodrama never quite gets substantial, but it is a fun watch - namely dues to Swinton's indelible countenance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2021

Almodóvar's sense of cinema design - the décor simulates a luxe apartment and lays it bare as a soundstage illusion - is acutely keyed to Swinton's performance here, which projects mercurial emotion with Swiss watch precision.

| Apr 1, 2021