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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1   "It's hard to make a good film noir if you're uncomfortable with your audience's corruptibility."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale 4/5 "El duelo de ficción y realidad es el punto fuerte del proyecto: historias paralelas, personajes complejos (pero no necesariamente explotados en sus complejidad)"   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez "A convoluted and enigmatic noir melodrama about the Holy Cross, cross-dressing and double-crossing - with an obscure autobiographical twist."   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel "[A] particularly enriching experience about the fine line between art and real life [that] is not for everyone."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij B "Almodóvar films don't unfold so much as they unpeel."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna "Almodóvar's movies always provide some sort of education."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "A rare disappointment from Almodóvar: perilously over the top gay chic coupled with an overly familiar condemnation of the Holy Catholic Church's blind eye towards pedophilia."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...it just feels like Almodovar is trying to do too much..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "It's stylish, campy, gay, and signature Almodóvar."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "The film's outlandishly involuted story fuses melodrama, romanticism and noir."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 4/4 "Almodóvar’s canvas—like that of another hot-blooded drama queen, Federico García Lorca—is one of uncensored emotion and pure energy."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 3/5 "Tal vez La Mala Educación sea su película más honesta, más íntima, más personal, sin que ello signifique necesariamente una autobiografía."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "A ribald story of desire, lust and obsession."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider A- "A revelation, combining the colorful flash of the writer-director's previous work with a richer, deeper emotional vein than ever before."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 " A valentine by director Pedro Almodovar to the film noir genre and its capacity to depict the strange things people will do to fulfill their forbidden yearnings."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 85/100 "A dazzling autobiographical blend of Almodovar's career, childhood, and adoration & admiration for the cinema."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz A "Even when he's paying homage to other great filmmakers, it still remains an indisputably Almodovar experience."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 2.5/4 "The performances are fine, and there are occasional flashes of the kind of inspired direction we have come to expect from Almodóvar, but, ultimately, Bad Education must be considered to be a minor effort from a major director."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "the film stays grounded, but there's always a slippery subtext of meta-cinematic glee pushing at the seams"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 8/10 "The best thing about Pedro Almodóvar movies is how you can never tell where they're going."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 3/4 "It’s ironic that the last image that Pedro Almodovar’s Bad Education offers us is a close-up of the Spanish word 'pasión,' because the film feels far too rarefied and precise for its own good."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 5/10 "Nothing particularly memorable or spectacular..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "It is also the first movie from this noted celebrator of women in which the only girls are boys."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards B+ "Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar goes all Hitchcockian with his intricately structured film noir...García Bernal burns up the screen"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Part childhood romance, part film noir, part A Star is Born, the film delights in the interplay of surfaces and identities, the painful, shifting masquerade of art and life."   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Leo Goldsmith 3.5/5 "By turns enthralling, seductive and deeply disturbing, Almodovar's tragic fable is steeped in a swooning sense of passion's power to inspire, pervert and destroy that draws the fractured narrative into a satisfying whole."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4.5/5 "pulses with florid passion... it may be the best film of the year."   Filmcritic.com   Nick Schager 0.5/5 "Truly awful. Feels like a third-rate parody of Almodovar's work, rather than the genuine article."   Film Threat   Phil Hall 4.5/5 "Vivid, colourful filmmaking with frequent touches of outrageous flamboyance, nearly overwhelming sexual tension and astutely political parallels."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "When the most noble character in the movie is a pedophiliac priest, you know you are in trouble."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C- "Paints vivid noir suspense with extremely broad brushstrokes, often pushing style to the forefront at the expense of story"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 8/10 "The lavish crimson-drenched cinematography and pulsating music complement the concept."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1