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Movie Overview
Cast
• Celia Roth
• Marisa Parades
• Penélope Cruz
Director
• Pedro Almodóvar
MPAA Rating
R - Sexuality, Strong Sexual Dialogue, Language, Drug Content
All About My Mother (1999)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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"A sophisticated meta-melodrama featuring some of his most complex and compassionate characters -- not so over-the-top campy as much of his previous work, yet as politically and sexually adventurous in its own shrewd ways."  Philadelphia City Paper  Cynthia Fuchs

B+
"One must give Almodóvar credit for getting his voice heard in the mainstream while keeping his artististic integrity intact."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"Pedro Almodóvar's best film to date, a heart-breaking paean to femininity, the maternal instinct and the thirst for drama."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

A
"Succeeds in a number of gentle, gratifying ways."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

"A salute to the enormous fierceness, resolve, and strength it takes to be a nurturing person. "  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

A
"Both an expansion of Almodovar's famous candy-colored vision and a maturation of his ingenious directorial style."  Mixed Reviews  Gabriel Shanks

3.5/4
"An exquisitely constructed melodrama."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

"Good, but not as great as many are touting."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

4/4
"All About My Mother is a wonderful Mother's Day card, in any language."  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

A-
"Almodóvar's best to date."  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

"A non-stop visual assault of bright, beautiful colors."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

9/10
"A satisfying emotional journey."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

9/10
"A celebration of friendship, family and resilience that's touching without ever being cloying."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

9/10
"All About My Mother is a movie so intrinsically rich that it doesn't need any metaphors."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

"A loving film chock full of exuberance and humanity."  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf

10/10
"It's 1999's best foreign language film."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Susan Granger
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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