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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The overall purpose of Live Flesh, the latest and reputedly most 'mature' work from Spanish bad-boy director Pedro Almodovar, remains engigmatic. Read more
David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture: Despite his erotic fixations, Pedro Almodovar is the cinema's last true innocent. Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: Almodovar, whose work here has newly sophisticated polish, appreciates the dark twists of this story along with the eroticism that bring heat to all the scheming. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Like the gorgeous cinematography (which is used to good effect to eroticize a sex scene), this is all part of Almodovar's stylistic package. Never has it been more impressive than here, where everything (not just the flesh) is vibrant with life. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: I can only conclude that the people who think Flower and Live Flesh represent the new, mature Almodovar think that his earlier pictures were immature. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is the first Almodovar movie that could be called boring. Read more