¡Átame! 1989

Critics score:
70 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: 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 more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Almodovar's polarities are so perfectly lined up in opposition to my own that it is quite possible for one of his movies to shoot right through my brain without striking a single cell. Read more

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Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A writer-director driven by his passion, Almodovar allows his movies to moan and sweat and writhe. Sex looks like sex, not pornographic but messy and warm. The curtains do not billow, the sheets burn. Read more