Cafe Muller

i hated this. i try not to hate movies but honestly i truly, truly hated this one. i can't even properly analyse it yet because i'm too angry and revolted but i will say this: musings on love and human nature and loneliness are not only wrong but outright dangerous when…

clownhead

AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM???!!!

anjy

I can't believe they tried to make me feel bad for a horrible rapist. I hate men.

Stephanie

talk to her stumped me. it’s the first time i’ve been completely unsure of what to rate something, alternating between one and four stars, searching for some semblance of myself in the divided reviews. i sat there for a few hours after the film finished, dissecting every…

cait

Excellent, but Almodovar doesn't know how to design a vagina.

Joaquín Salles

i hated it. i hated that the rapist's name is "benigno". i hated that the “kind” protagonist said that the rapist saved the victim's life. i hated that the woman’s body is totally objectified. i hated so much much that it tries to make you fell bad for a rapist. it’s…

raca

a very uncomfortable watch; almodovar seems to want to remind us of the neverending demands of male entitlement (you can be next door to dead and men will still expect the world from you), but ultimately his sympathy for the male characters and their increasingly…

vee

There is so much I did not like about this film that I find it hard to discuss it without just frothing at the mouth. I can see where Almodovar was trying to push buttons and asks questions, to bend gender expectations, and to take a complex and difficult subject to task,…

Sally Jane Black

Disclaimer: me liking this film in all of its controversial beauty does not constitute feelings of sympathy nor sadness towards Benigno ('benevolent', 'pious') and/or Marco, two despicable human beings whose true nature is hidden behind a facade of amicable innocence that…

Nico Vargas