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It is refreshing to see Cruz acting in the culture and language that is her own. As it did with Sophia Loren in the 1950s, Hollywood has tried to force Cruz into a series of show-biz categories, when she is obviously most at home playing a woman like the ones she knew, grew up with, could have become.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

With this, possibly his most subdued film, Almodovar reinforces his status as one of the most distinctive and talented filmmakers working today.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today

Volver is Almodovar's passionate tribute to the community of women -- living and dead -- who nurtured him. Through the transformative power of his art -- carried on the wings of Alberto Iglesias' exhilarating score -- we feel their presence. You do not want to miss this one.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Almodóvar is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much deeper, and now they run deeper still.Full Review

Keith Phipps
The Onion (A.V. Club)

Volver, full of surprises and reversals, unfolds with breathtaking ease and self-confidence. It is in some ways a smaller, simpler film than either "Talk to Her" or "Bad Education," choosing to tell its story without flashbacks or intricate parallel plots, but it is no less the work of a master.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times
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