- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Oct 14, 2011
- Summary:
- Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 37
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Mixed: 11 out of 37
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Negative: 0 out of 37
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91And while it may be true that Almodóvar doesn't have Hitchcock's way with terror, it's not clear that Hitchcock could leave the real world behind so wholly and convincingly as Almodóvar does here.
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80It's as stylish and kinky as you could want, but compared to his recent female-centric melodramas ("Broken Embraces," "Volver," "All About My Mother"), this is a chilly genre exercise that casts his obsession with gender and sexuality in a harsh new light.
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80There are plot twists and turns, some of which amuse, some of which disgust. Issues of gender and identity take an eventual backseat to gruesome experiments -- gruesome because of the manner in which they're conducted, by an unfeeling monster.
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60Almodovar makes some missteps in his icky mélange of melodrama and mischief, but the end result is playfully devious.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 23
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Mixed: 0 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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