The actors are outstanding, illuminating four different views of loneliness. But it's Camara's tour-de-force performance that anchors the film, that shocks and unnerves us.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Like everything else in this superb work of art, ''Shrinking Lover'' is exquisitely Almodóvarian. It's funny, tender, a little shocking, and it pays homage to what we know about movies: that they can move us beyond words.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
No director since Fassbinder has been able to evoke such complex emotions with such problematic material.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Like taking a drug everyone says is dynamite and impatiently wondering why the heck it's not kicking in. The kick in fact turns out to be real, and as powerful as advertised, but it doesn't necessarily hit you in any way you anticipated.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
When it's over, the realization of how much the movie means to you really sinks in; you can't get it out of your heart.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
A movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Almodóvar has made a powerfully moving film about men who think they want to lose themselves in their women, then are startled to realize that they're the ones who have been comatose.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
It is at once warmly humanistic and boldly innovative, raising philosophical questions but not answering them.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Almodovar also manages to conclude the film on a hopeful note, and one that will have many audience members wishing that he will someday return to tell more about these characters.Read Full Review »
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