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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: One of the amazing things about Volver is that Almodovar once again manages to make a preposterous, overloaded plot seem sublime and organic. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The result is intoxicating; a free-spinning story that's by its end enormously satisfying, creating its own kind of magic. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The pleasures of the new Pedro Almodovar film Volver, and they are many, have less to do with deep wells of feeling than they do with mastery of craft and a magnificent sort of artifice. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: [A] vibrant film that's pure class, pure imagination and pure Almodovar. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: What a run this millennium for Pedro Almodovar: one strange and fabulous feature after the next, each in a different style, each so deftly controlled that you hardly register its subversiveness until after you've been hooked by its story. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Once again, the director confronts women on the verge of a nervous breakdown in a film full of humor and affection. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: [A] gritty melodrama tempered by surreal black humor. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: From the very first shot of Volver... you know you're in masterful hands. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The women are left to do the best they can. That turns out to be enough to keep you watching through to the final twist -- as unlikely as everything else in this nonetheless extremely likable movie. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's very moving, It's beautifully done. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A movie with more in its heart than on its mind, Pedro Almodovar's Volver doesn't approach the brilliance of his recent films Talk to Her and Bad Education. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Almodovar is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much deeper, and now they run deeper still. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar always has fun toying with our perceptions and expectations and does it yet again with Volver, a darkly comic look at mortality and family secrets. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Pity Pedro Almodovar. He's so good so often that the world has come to expect a masterpiece with every new picture. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Like most homecomings (or at least most good ones), Pedro Almodovar's Volver is warm, emotional and forever on the brink of tears -- peppered with bouts of pique, old resentments that flare up and moments of intense and lyrical longing. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The Return rattles its chains for a spell, but it doesn't linger -- it quickly leaves. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: I have always felt that Almodovar was at his best as an artist when he was at his most playful. Volver is about deadly serious matters of the heart, but it often has a screwball spirit. The darker things are, the funnier. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Ripe with female characters and embroidered with flourishes that hint at Hollywood's Golden Age, Volver is one of Almodovar's finest films. It is also one of his most emotionally delightful. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Volver is rich, crazy, ambitious and filled with heaven and earth in a way that no other filmmaker can touch. It is a flawed beauty, but the beauty is so much more important than the flaws. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Watching Volver, Pedro Almodovar's latest poker-faced extravagance, you realize just how far his women have come from the days when they were living on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If Almodovar is in great form, Cruz is even shapelier, with no small number of gags involving her cleavage. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: It's up to charm to twinkle our attention away from the loose threads and daytime TV plotting. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The movie is enjoyable, but not passionately engaging in the way we've come to expect from Almodovar, and it leaves you somewhat cold in spite of the warmth of Cruz's galvanic performance. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Cruz has never been more radiant and funny: Comparisons to Sophia Loren in her Vittorio DeSica heyday are flying about, and richly warranted. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Almodovar's generous vision isn't just unique, it's color-coordinated. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Almodovar is a great filmmaker, and his skills remain intact -- Volver is polished, well-acted, completely personal cinema. Yet it still feels slight -- more a tapas than a meal. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: For a black comedy whose tangled sequence of events is completely improbable, Pedro Almodovar's Volver feels absolutely authentic. So, think of everything as metaphor and enjoy one of the year's most delectably twisted treats. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The late Francois Truffaut was frequently described as a filmmaker who loved women, but not even Monsieur Truffuat could come close to Senor Almodovar in his intelligent, perceptive and creative appreciation of women in Volver. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's clever and entertaining. It's marvelously deft, but never daffy. It works well enough, despite feeling like the most conventional film this great, envelope-pushing Spanish director has ever made. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although Volver has a tendency to stray too far down tangential paths, it is ultimately satisfying. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What a distinctive filmmaker Almodovar has become. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: You do not want to miss this one. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: This is a movie about mothers and children that dispatches with the usual goopy sentiment. Volver reassures us that you can go home again -- if only in the movies. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: [Almodovar's] once-kitschy obsession with color and surface continues to deepen into a big, bold, almost painterly style. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A tale of sisterhood, told with playful affection and abiding gratitude. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: A feast of colours, swooning camera movements, lushly orchestrated musical cues and meticulously fetishized symbolism. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: ...It's some achievement that the film is both funnier and more moving on repeated viewing, when its pervasive dramatic ironies emerge. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Even if Volver sounds too high-concept for you, know that Almodovar is smart enough not to rest on laughs alone, extending his premise to dark, though occasionally tidy psychological territory. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Volver is suspenseful, clever, gently funny and always emotionally resonant. Read more
Rob Nelson, Village Voice: Red, in every conceivable shade, is, not surprisingly, a key color in Volver, a movie about the towering virtues of high heels and the indomitable power of good old 35mm celluloid. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A deeply entertaining experience that engages our hearts as well as our funny bones. Read more