Like most Almodóvar films, external beauty and color are abundant in Volver.

| Mar 25, 2024

Pedro Almodovar is in a playful mood here, yet there’s no mistaking the seriousness with which he takes the movie’s theme of empowerment through sisterhood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Beautifully shot, structured, and acted, Almodovar's film sees the past repeat itself, the dead come back to life, and the painfully concealed return to the fore.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

As emotionally devastating as it is visually stunning.

| Jan 7, 2021

It's a playful soap-opera, mad with colour and crazy twists. It's a ghost story that won't give you the chills. And most importantly of all, it's yet another fine movie from Spanish master Pedro Almodovar.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2020

The film never minces its words, it unabashedly confronts the challenges women everywhere face.

| Apr 29, 2020

Almodóvar's tribute to mother love is overflowing with the anguish and ecstasy of life.

| Jan 28, 2020

The film is, almost by definition, deeper, more intelligent, more nuanced and more beautifully filmed than at least 95 percent of the movies coming out of Hollywood - if not more.

| Jun 18, 2019

Volver disappoints.

| Feb 6, 2018

Beautiful performances, a refreshing story, and spot-on comedic timing make this a wonderful movie.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

This is a woman's picture in the best sense of the term, anchored by bravura turns from Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Something of a departure for the Spanish auteur, it also seals his status as a cinematic master. Never that this was much in doubt.

| Aug 23, 2017

Almodóvar himself once again returning, with delicious self-consciousness, to an old plot. . . and reconfiguring it, as he does here even more radically than in his other recent films, in the subtle but provocative manner of his mature style.

| Aug 19, 2017

Almodóvar's maturity navigates not only the thin lines between comedy and drama and between body and spirit, but also between rebellion and acceptance

| Aug 28, 2009

It's up to charm to twinkle our attention away from the loose threads and daytime 온라인카지노추천 plotting.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 2, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

At the center of this hectic universe, [Cruz] never misses a step and may even elevate what Almodovar originally conceived.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 21, 2008

With all its unexpected twists and turns, the story still unfolds naturally, like some gaudy Mediterranean flower.

| May 12, 2008

Pedro Almodovar's Volver is amazingly bright, fresh and clean for a film dealing with murder, adultery, incest, malignant disease and the occasional supernatural apparition.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 28, 2008

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

Hollywood, take notice: If you hand Penelope Cruz a role with more depth than the paper it's printed on, this is what you'll get.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 27, 2007