Julieta: reviews

What the critics say average 6.9 from 8 outlets

• 10 El MundoLuis Martínez Perfect deconstruction of the melodrama in a film so anomalous and sleep-walker as disturbing. Read
• 8.0 FotogramasJordi Costa To meet the most complex Almodovar girl. (...) A work of rested maturity (...) it may be his more concentrated and accurate film. Read
• 7.0 CinemaníaAndrea G. Bermejo Almodóvar's most literary film, the most contained and subtle (...) and this might be why the film doesn't have extreme plot twists, doesn't switch genre and doesn't have hyperbole. Read
• 7.0 Screen DailyFionnuala Halligan Almodovar's 20th feature is an anxious, tantalising creature (...) Full of hints and omens (...) Almodovar himself is still a similarly unique, distinctive voice, growing in texture and depth with each new production. Read
• 6.5 VarietyPeter Debruge The Spanish auteur offers up his most sincere drama (...) While 'Julieta' represents a welcome return to the female-centric storytelling (...) it is far from this reformed renegade's strongest or most entertaining work. Read
• 6.5 The Hollywood ReporterLeslie Felperin A flat and fragmentary drama (...) it's a solid enough assembly to satisfy the director's most passionate devotees worldwide, (...) However, less invested viewers may feel nonplussed by the script's meandering, unresolved mysteries, abrupt and untidily managed narrative bombshells, and quizzically motivated characters. Read
• 6.0 ABCOti Rodríguez Marchante Emma Suárez, the authentic brush that draws the feelings of the story. Read
• 4.0 El PaísCarlos Boyero The movie doesn't transmit emotional or artistic feelings. The problem: you don't believe it. Read