I defy you to watch Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown and dare to find a lack of passion, craft, or ability. Almodóvar shows all of these and continues to throughout his entire filmography...

| Feb 23, 2024

The most original pop writer-director of the eighties, [Almodovar is] Godard with a human face -- a happy face. His new Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, his seventh feature (since 1980), is one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies.

| Sep 11, 2023

Almodovar keeps the swirling goings-on in clear focus, deepening his material with dreams so powerful they alter the contours of individual personalities.

| May 9, 2023

An infectious confection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2022

Women on the Verge... has so many comic and visual pleasures that you never feel cheated.

| Sep 22, 2022

A very attractive and very commercial comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2022

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN is a beguiling, fascinating film. A great mixture of melodrama and comedy, in which every single frame is somehow great to look at. And there are chickens too!

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 25, 2022

Episode 48: Ready or Not / It Chapter Two / Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

| Original Score: 82/100 | Oct 18, 2021

The humour is raunchy and farcical, all accentuated by an over the top plot.

| Apr 29, 2020

All the actors are superb. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 16, 2020

A film whose overwhelming liveliness provides an enthusiastic, ebullient rebuke to the despair of its characters.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 15, 2018

Almodovar's most accomplished and most commercially successful comedy to date.

| Original Score: A | Jun 30, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2006

A feminist comedy with real bite; it always brings down the house.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 31, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2006

The gold standard for Almodovar's screwball farces.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2005

An exuberant comedy of manners drunk on its own outlandish melodrama.

| May 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2004