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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Even though Bad Education ultimately seems to escape the director's control, there is no small amount of enjoyment in getting lost in its sexual-philosophical house of mirrors. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It's Almodovar's ode to obsessive love, to artistic passion and to the cinema itself. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: If only Bad Education engaged the heart as much as the head, Almodovar's fractured tale might have risen above its alienating noir conventions. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A dazzling exercise in storytelling -- and a loving tribute to the power of cinema. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Intoxicating and flawed noir-melodrama. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: It's best not to spill too many more beans -- only to say that Gael Garcia Bernal is the real thing. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's all incredibly complicated but, intensely fascinating. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: In accounting for Almodovar'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 more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Taken at face value, Bad Education is about molestation, but from a wider perspective, it's about love, loss of innocence and the desperate quest for redemption. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A marvelously dirty, ultimately heartbroken movie about, among other things, the instability of identities. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Almodovar is at his most breathtakingly complex and mature, and at his most pessimistic. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Like all of Almodovar's films, Bad Education takes the audience down unexpected roads and switchbacks. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Almodovar's most fiendishly crafted, emotionally complicated film. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I'm not sure if Bad Education is Almodovar's most personal film, but it's the one, at least to me, in which he has spoken most directly. It feels good to finally hear his voice. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: His films are set-designed to the teeth, fastidiously framed and filled with beautiful bodies across the gender spectrum. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Crime and deception have rarely looked so sumptuous. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: It is Bernal himself who sticks in your head the most. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Almodovar never stops maturing or losing his supreme mastery of the medium. Read more
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture: It still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodovar's work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: As usual ... it's Almodovar who's the star here, filling the screen with bold compositions and melodramatic passion. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Gloriously feverish ode to what drives us to do things great and terrible. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I found the film devious and confused in its Pirandellian contrivances and shifts of identity. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Mr. Almodovar's fantastic and unconventional film -- and Mr. Bernal's astonishing passion, tenderness, vulnerability and magnetic velocity in it -- are blazing headlights in an often bleak and blurry year. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Almodovar has toyed with film noir before, most memorably in his 1997 film Live Flesh. But his newest movie, Bad Education, is a delirious, headlong immersion and re-invention of a style. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Simple melodrama, a not-that-puzzling puzzle of a film noir. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The performances are fine, and there are occasional flashes of the kind of inspired direction we have come to expect from Almodovar, but, ultimately, Bad Education must be considered to be a minor effort from a major director. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Almodovar wants to intrigue and entertain us, and he certainly does, proving along the way that Gael Garcia Bernal has the same kind of screen presence that Antonio Banderas brought to Almodovar's earlier movies. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This is a disturbing film that challenges the viewer's comfort. It also challenges you to keep up as it jumps stylistically from comedy to romance to drama to a film noir thriller. Read more
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: An exercise in stylish, seductive and cinematically self-referential finesse. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Visually, Bad Education's only impressive set piece is the dynamic, Saul Bass-esque opening credits. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: One of Almodovar's darkest films since the early days of Law of Desire and Matador, and certainly one of his finest. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: 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 more