Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down Critic Reviews
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X marks the G-spot perhaps, for this is an orgiastic comedy of terrors and errors.Read the full review
There's a hushed, rapturous quality to its best parts, though, and the emotional interplay between Ricky and Marina has a scary immediacy that the movies rarely achieve. Almodovar dares a lot in this film. [4 May 1990]Read the full review
Almodovar's inventive direction, superb lensing by Jose Luis Alcaine, a fine score by Ennio Morricone and top technical credits make pic a pleasure to watch.Read the full review
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is seamlessly crafted yet too self-conscious to be much fun.Read the full review
The movie is too flighty and uncentered, and it allows actual violence to break the spell when false alarms would have sufficed.Read the full review
Mr. Almodovar's comic invention runs out too soon, leaving the audience to giggle weakly in anticipation of the big laughs and disorienting shocks that never arrive.Read the full review
[Pedro Almodovar] gives it a nice try, but his approach turns out to be completely wrong for the material he's working with here. [25 May 1990]Read the full review
