Bad Education Critic Reviews
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To watch Bad Education is to revel, along with Almodovar, in the power of cinema to take us on journeys of breathtaking mystery and dimension and beauty.Read the full review
A rapturous masterwork.Read the full review
This is a brilliantly structured hall of mirrors that wraps Catholicism and the movie industry into a tasty film noir.Read the full review
The result is one of Almodovar's darkest films since the early days of "Law of Desire" and "Matador," and certainly one of his finest.Read the full review
Bad Education is a voluptuous experience that invites you to gorge on its beauty and vitality, although it has perhaps the darkest ending of any of the films by the Spanish writer and director.Read the full review
It's a film noir that grows more potent as its secrets are revealed.Read the full review
With Bad Education, Almodóvar is at his most breathtakingly complex and mature, and at his most pessimistic.Read the full review
Superbly orchestrated, visually impressive.Read the full review
Pedro Almodovar's new movie is like an ingenious toy that is a joy to behold, until you take it apart to see what makes it work, and then it never works again.Read the full review
In accounting for Almodóvar's identity as an artist and a man, Bad Education comes together like a bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date.Read the full review
