Critic Reviews
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
It's clever and entertaining. It's marvelously deft, but never daffy. It works well enough, despite feeling like the most conventional film this great, envelope-pushing Spanish director has ever made.
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Pedro Almodóvar whipstitches a movie from patches of those mother-daughter melodramas Mildred Pierce, Bellissima and Two Women and makes it seamless and original, funny as it is fierce, breathtaking as it is life-affirming.
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Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
The Return rattles its chains for a spell, but it doesn't linger -- it quickly leaves.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
Volver is rich, crazy, ambitious and filled with heaven and earth in a way that no other filmmaker can touch. It is a flawed beauty, but the beauty is so much more important than the flaws.
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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
If Almodovar is in great form, Cruz is even shapelier, with no small number of gags involving her cleavage.
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Cast
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Penelope Cruzas Raimunda -
Carmen Mauraas Irene -
Lola Dueñasas Sole
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Blanca Portilloas Augustina -
Yohana Coboas Paula -
Chus Lampreaveas Aunt Paula
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