As emotionally devastating as it is visually stunning.

| Jan 7, 2021

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

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

| Original Score: B- | Jul 2, 2009

Even if Volver sounds too high-concept for you, know that Almodóvar is smart enough not to rest on laughs alone, extending his premise to dark, though occasionally tidy psychological territory.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Feb 3, 2007

The film is realistic, yet Almodóvar's touch of the absurd and the madcap infiltrate everything that occurs while his candy-colored visual palette lends a brightness to what in other hands might have taken the form of a sordid tale.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 11, 2007

Pedro Almodóvar whipstitches a movie from patches of those mother-daughter melodramas Mildred Pierce, Bellissima and Two Women and makes it seamless and original, funny as it is fierce, breathtaking as it is life-affirming.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 28, 2006

The Return rattles its chains for a spell, but it doesn't linger -- it quickly leaves.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 22, 2006

Volver is rich, crazy, ambitious and filled with heaven and earth in a way that no other filmmaker can touch. It is a flawed beauty, but the beauty is so much more important than the flaws.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 22, 2006

If Almodovar is in great form, Cruz is even shapelier, with no small number of gags involving her cleavage.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 22, 2006

Ripe with female characters and embroidered with flourishes that hint at Hollywood's Golden Age, Volver is one of Almodóvar's finest films. It is also one of his most emotionally delightful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 22, 2006

[A] gritty melodrama tempered by surreal black humor.

| Dec 21, 2006

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar always has fun toying with our perceptions and expectations and does it yet again with Volver, a darkly comic look at mortality and family secrets.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2006

A deeply entertaining experience that engages our hearts as well as our funny bones.

| Dec 21, 2006

A movie with more in its heart than on its mind, Pedro Almodóvar's Volver doesn't approach the brilliance of his recent films Talk to Her and Bad Education.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 21, 2006

A feast of colours, swooning camera movements, lushly orchestrated musical cues and meticulously fetishized symbolism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2006

The result is intoxicating; a free-spinning story that's by its end enormously satisfying, creating its own kind of magic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 22, 2006

The women are left to do the best they can. That turns out to be enough to keep you watching through to the final twist -- as unlikely as everything else in this nonetheless extremely likable movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2006

What a distinctive filmmaker Almodovar has become.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 22, 2006

Pity Pedro Almodóvar. He's so good so often that the world has come to expect a masterpiece with every new picture.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2006