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By Stella Papamichael (611) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 28 Aug 2009

Almodóvar's natural affinity with women (particularly women who are forced to act tough) enables an easy balance of noirish grit and that…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Heat Magazine (77) on 28 Aug 2009

Entertaining enough with visuals to die for, but definitely not as emotionally rewarding as some of this director's other recent pictures…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 28 Aug 2009

Pedro Almodóvar's visually sumptuous feature will please but not wow his fans, since it retreads familiar waters to unremarkable effect…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 Aug 2009

While some of Almodóvar's films are out-and-out heartbreakers - perfect storms of melodrama, storytelling and extreme living - this is a more…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 28 Aug 2009

Pedro Almodóvar is a film-maker so innately talented that even when half-cocked, as he is in Broken Embraces, he can somehow produce a movie…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 28 Aug 2009

Broken Embraces is a film in which the director demonstrates a continuing, virtuoso fluency in a cinematic language that he himself invented…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 28 Aug 2009

Broken Embraces is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a slightly overindulgent parade of gushing film references…

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By Sophie Ivan (49) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 28 Aug 2009

Like an elaborately woven cobweb, it's a marvel but so full of holes that it's all too easily swept from memory…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Movies (33) on 28 Aug 2009

Despite first-class performances - from Cruz, Gomez and Homar - Almodovar's narrative appears laboured, offering none of the surprises that…

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By Kevin Harley (322) for Total Film (3,532) on 28 Aug 2009

Your eyeballs will relish Almodóvar's movie-movie cocktail, but it'd be nice to see him serve up some fresh flavours…

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By Tom Hutchinson (48) for Filmstar Magazine (47) on 28 Aug 2009

The director's previous films...are all, in some way, about cinema - but this need is especially acute in Broken Embraces, which eats its own tail…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 28 Aug 2009

His films can be uncomfortably navel-gazing, and that's the case in this somewhat maudlin contemplation of the woes of film-making and the…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 28 Aug 2009

Precious, pointless and tediously self-aggrandising…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 28 Aug 2009

Can Pedro Almodóvar make a bad film? The answer seems to be no, even when he might be accused of trying…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 28 Aug 2009

The director is toying with us, he knows it, and he knows we know it. This isn't a dud, it's just a small disappointment…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 28 Aug 2009

One of the most challenging and visually accomplished films of Almodóvar's long career…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 28 Aug 2009

[Almodovar] frames with the greatest passion and, here, with muse Penélope Cruz dominating a story of erotic obsession, he surpasses himself…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 28 Aug 2009

It's fair to say that Broken Embraces isn't one of Almodovar's best films, but it's still something of an interesting failure and remains worth…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 28 Aug 2009

Perhaps not as dazzling as Almodovar's masterpieces, this film is still an involving and sleekly well-made melodrama…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for News of the World (402) on 28 Aug 2009

Its indulgent meta-filmic reverie and willingness to toy with film noir convention is a rare delight…

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