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High Heels
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51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    An Almodovar film is always an exercise in style, but High Heels also generates narrative energy and mystery, and provides what was, for me, a genuine surprise at the end.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    75
    It's an admirable attempt, though a less than completely successful one. The film's disappointments lie not so much in Almodovar's controlled, respectful direction as in the strange gaps and displacements of his screenplay, which never seems to supply the scenes we most want to see. [20 Dec 1991]
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  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    63
    A stylish but disappointing spoof which lacks the satiric gusto of director Pedro Almodovar's earlier works.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: Mat Snow
    60
    We get a mother-daughter murder melodrama even more farfetched than the Joan Crawford classic, Mildred Pierce, on which this would appear to be loosely based.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    60
    The best thing about High Heels are the performances - [Victoria Abril]'s tense, voracious daughter, Parades' star-turn mother, the sinister Bose, the arrogant Atkine - and the lucidity of Almodovar's narrative style, which by now seems as natural as breathing. [20 Dec 1991]
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  6. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    It's easier to take Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker- more seriously. [20 Dec 1991]
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  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Mostly it's Paredes' imperious - then surprisingly generous - high-handedness that carries High Heels. [20 Dec 1991]
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  8. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    50
    High Heels becomes mired in its own best intentions - primary colors and all.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    Those who miss the wildness of his premainstream work will probably be only partially appeased.
  10. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    The story is stylishly filmed and acted with high spirits, but there's not much going on in many of its colorful shots.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    40
    High Heels has no real mirth and not even enough energy to keep it lively.
  12. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hal Hinson
    40
    It feels more like a prosaic knockoff than a classically inspired original.
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