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  Review by clownhead ★★★★ 6

  i think men have like ... maybe ten lines total in this entire film. i feel refreshed and rejuvenated and ready to give back to the community

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  Review by Vilu ★★★★ 2

  Why make movies about men when you can just... do this instead?

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  Review by pulcrito ★★★★½ 1

  Penélope's lip sync was better than anything from the last 9 seasons of drag race.

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  Review by eduarda marina ★★★★★ 5

  the way almodóvar gets human emotions..... the way almodóvar hates men..... the way penelope cruz.....

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  Review by Holli ★★★★½ 3

  penelope cruz boobs

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  Review by Jacob ★★★★★

  "I'll tell you everything."

  Perhaps what I love most about good melodrama is the idea that our secrets explain everything. You won't understand this right now, but when I tell you the truth about me, then it will all make sense. Of course, as this is melodrama, I can't simply tell you my secret. It's too horrible, or too big, or just too difficult to speak about. Everyone has their secrets, and it's this constant dilemma both internal and external as to what we share and when we find the strength to do so. In the case of Volver, when we go to the grave with secrets still with us, the truth that haunted us in life now haunts our loved ones. What a strange and beautiful kind of ghost story.

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  Review by maria ★★★★

  penélope cruz: *ends men while looking rad af*
  me with my phone camera: you're doing amazing sweetie!

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  Review by p e r s i a 🍒 ★★★★

  What’s the opposite of a Bechdel test? Because this movie doesn’t pass it at all and I am LIVING FOR IT!

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  Review by Mark Marshall ★★★★

  Smelling the farts of your “ghost” mum might be the single wildest plot detail I’ve ever witnessed. This is a beautiful film, farts and all.

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  Review by flor ★★★★★ 1

  —te necesito, mamá. no sé cómo he podido vivir todos estos años sin ti.
  —no me digas eso, raimunda, que me pongo a llorar. y los fantasmas no lloran.

  hace muchísimo quería ver esta película y al fin hoy lo hice, no puedo explicar todo lo que me hizo sentir. solo voy a decir que penélope cruz es la reina y amé verla terminando con los hombres por 2 horas.
  también amo a almodóvar, ningún hombre puede representar a las mujeres como él. nuestro dolor, nuestras vivencias, las cosas horribles que nos tocan atravesar por el hecho de serlo, la difícil relación entre una madre con su hija y el apoyo que encontramos en otras mujeres.

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  Review by sarah ★★★★★

  magic realism.. extremely my shit

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  Review by Jules 🌸 ★★★★ 1

  Who's better company than one's mother?

  Almodóvar girls.
  They aren't particulary pretty, distinguished, or morally correct. They are original, free, sincere, passionate, reckless, stubborn, wild, strong, fighters, self-sufficient... and alone. But not in a bad way; they are the ones responsible of their fate, totally independent. And even if they rely on a masculine figure at first, these women will always find a way to break these ties and set free.

  I'm saying all this because I think Volver is the movie with the most ''Almodóvar'' group of women. As the director himself said: ''The film is about three generations of women who survive the wind, the fire, the madness, the superstition and even death based on kindness and boundless…