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By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for Willamette Week (516) on 25 Jan 2017

The stylistic amalgam is remarkable: a bold, painterly camera and a Nobel Prize-winning writer's ideas come together in a melodrama about the…

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By Pilar Ayuso (31) for El Nuevo Herald (Miami) (31) on 25 Jan 2017

A film that has a gentle nerve, a soft elegance that leads to pain and loss during the sad life of its heroine. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 24 Jan 2017

An immersive mother-daughter story that vividly explores emotional literacy…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Jan 2017

Perhaps it doesn't equal Almodovar's best films, but compared to trifle like his last, 'I'm So Excited,' it represents a definite return to form…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 20 Jan 2017

Julieta is more muted than Almodovar's best work but it boasts stunning performances, a complex narrative structure, and opulent emotions…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 19 Jan 2017

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar adapts three stories by Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro; though his sensibilities are quite different…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 19 Jan 2017

Pedro Almodóvar's latest isn't his strongest, but his vibrant, vivid world of women is always a great place to be…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Ex-Press.com (333) on 18 Jan 2017

Tragedy has transformed Julieta, and because she is a woman, and because beauty informs so much of the female experience...and because Almodovar…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 14 Jan 2017

It's short, bittersweet and to the point. And it's Almodovar, a filmmaker who even at his slightest, is never less than fascinating…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 13 Jan 2017

Another mysterious reverie on motherhood from auteur of All About My Mother…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Washington City Paper (500) on 13 Jan 2017

There are hard-learned lessons in Julieta, and they all amount to the need for empathy…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jan 2017

Whether by dint of his source material or his own maturity, the filmmaker has invested the surface sheen with tenderness and emotional depth…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 12 Jan 2017

While visually attractive and emotionally rich, the movie is also a rambling walk to an open-ended finale that fizzles out…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 12 Jan 2017

Think of Julieta as Pedro Almodovar unplugged…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 12 Jan 2017

When the effusive Pedro Almodóvar adapts the minimalist Alice Munro, he reveals the passions seething under the bleakness of the latter’s…

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By Tina Hassannia (118) for National Post (1,405) on 12 Jan 2017

It's not insulting to highlight a female character's sexuality in her narrative, but the way Almodóvar does it feels tacky and objectifying…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Jan 2017

The moral of the story is clear: watch out for morals. They corrode the aforementioned generosity and understanding, leaving us lonely and bereft…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 06 Jan 2017

With Julieta, Almodóvar puts one central mystery front and center, but in solving it, provides answers to questions we may not even knew we had…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 06 Jan 2017

The cast's two Julietas both excel as their character's pre- and post-tragedy selves, who switch place mid-scene in a cinematic magic trick…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 05 Jan 2017

Grab hold of it -- the movie, but of course the elusive experience of existence itself as well -- before it evaporates…

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