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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternBeautiful (sometimes sublimely so), daring (sometimes outrageously so), seriously crazed and terrifically funny.
- 100The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottWhen it's over, the realization of how much the movie means to you really sinks in; you can't get it out of your heart.
- 100Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe actors are outstanding, illuminating four different views of loneliness. But it's Camara's tour-de-force performance that anchors the film, that shocks and unnerves us.
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittOne of Almodóvar's most challenging pictures, jumping around in time and sending a large gallery of characters through a wide variety of situations -- will find him again at the peak of his powers.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumLike everything else in this superb work of art, ''Shrinking Lover'' is exquisitely Almodóvarian. It's funny, tender, a little shocking, and it pays homage to what we know about movies: that they can move us beyond words.
- 88New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThis quiet yet jolting meditation on love, obsession, loneliness, friendship and fate has the quality to entrance you through a first viewing, and compel you to take its themes and characters home with you for further consideration.
- 88The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyPure cinematic intoxication, a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama, tastelessness and swooning elegance, bodies with the texture of fresh peaches, and angular faces Picasso would have loved.
- 80TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThis ode to the peculiar strength and flexibility of love, romantic and platonic, is simultaneously perverse, overwrought, deeply creepy and truly moving, a high-wire act that finds humor in the grotesque and hope in emotional malformation.
- 75Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrOdd, moving, strained cinematic poetry.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerTalk to Her affects some people very deeply, while others, like me, find it high-grade kitsch.