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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 03 Jan 2022

The Spanish maestro knows precisely how to get all the colors out of his charismatic muse, and in turn, the veteran star takes his material…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

Almodóvar pursues the politics of memory with uninhibited vigor, with a relentlessly physical immediacy that endows his tale of startling…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

Here is Cruz at her least showy and yet her most adventurous, allowing a storm of confusion to sweep across her face as she sits at a café…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 31 Dec 2021

Note to Oscar: Make sure a best actress nomination happens for the blazing Penelope Cruz in this emotional powerhouse from director Pedro Almodovar…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for IGN (1,013) on 30 Dec 2021

All of the performances are superb. Ms. Smit is a special revelation…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Dec 2021

The genius of Parallel Mothers lies in the way it gathers up so many of its maker’s preoccupations — the heroic fortitude of women, the…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 23 Dec 2021

The central plot of Parallel Mothers is vintage Almodóvar: a skein of reversals, revelations, surprises and coincidences unraveled with style,…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 22 Dec 2021

It’s a film that on one level plays like a melodrama, with wild twists and turns fitting of soap opera cliffhangers…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 22 Dec 2021

Of course, Cruz is luminous—especially as she embraces a maternal side that is at once nurturing and ferocious…

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By Leila Latif (37) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Dec 2021

The film is at its most powerful, however, when Almodóvar relies on his muse and intensely fixates on her character as Janis silently absorbs…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 03 Dec 2021

This isn’t one of the filmmaker’s great films, but it is a serious return to form and a movie that makes us feel the pain of women —…

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By Alex Saveliev (258) for Film Threat (5,156) on 26 Nov 2021

Cruz effortlessly holds the screen in a tricky performance: phlegmatic and ambivalent, radiating charisma and sophistication, making you feel…

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By Natalia Keogan (119) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Oct 2021

Particularly paired with Cruz’s knockout performance of a woman whose life endures the legacy left by the trauma of her family’s unresolved…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2021

The film is a ghost story as well as a story of transference, which Pedro Almodóvar understands to be one in the same…

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By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 11 Sep 2021

Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers may at first present like a run-of-the-mill effort from the face of Spanish cinema, but there's a deceptive…

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By David Katz (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2021

There are tonal issues, awkwardly on-the-nose dialogue and plotting; the acting from leads Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit redeems matters with…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Sep 2021

In a world turned careful and considered (not by choice but by necessity) this extravagant, exuberant, magnificently messy movie, punch-drunk…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Sep 2021

It’s a film of cascading twists and turns, of thickening complication, of high family drama…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 01 Sep 2021

Parallel Mothers is a movie of infinite tenderness, that rare ode to motherhood that acknowledges mothers as women first and mothers second…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Sep 2021

While Parallel Mothers doesn’t match the intricately interwoven layers of Almodóvar’s top-tier work — All About My Mother, Talk to Her,…

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