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  Review by maria ★★★★ 6

  the usage of COLOR, the GAY, the DIRECTION , that ENDING. pedro almodóvar, you utter genius

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  Review by al ★★★★ 1

  i didn't think antonio banderas could top his performance in shrek 2 (2004) but... i think he might have done it

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 13

  in a year full of exquisite endings (PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, THE SOUVENIR, SYNONYMS, PARASITE, THE IRISHMAN, DIANE, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, KNIVES OUT, HUSTLERS, etc. etc.) this one might be the most resonantly bittersweet.  

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  Review by Sean Baker 15

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  My fave Almodóvar since The Skin I Live In.

  This is why I checked spoilers.... The ending had a great effect on me. It made me re-evaluate the earlier scenes I had issues with, specifically the flashbacks. I was enjoying the present day story with Asier Etxeandia much more. Then the reveal at the end made me suddenly love all the flashbacks retroactively. That was cool.

  Asier Etxeandia is really solid in this film. I need to see more of his work.

  Missed it in theaters so watched a screener link. But quite honestly, my only real problem with the film is the digital cinematography. We've seen what Almodóvar, production designer Antxón Gómez and cinematographer José Luis Alcaine can achieve on celluloid. Bad Education, Volver... some of the most beautiful films ever made. Compare the images of Pain and Glory with these earlier features and you can't deny the power of film.

  Watched screener link

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  Review by kyle ★★★★½ 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  this movie was a whole ass MOOD:

  Men loving men... i love to see it
  Oh my fucking god is that rosalía???
  Oscar for antonio for his post tequila shot shimmy
  Dick! i too would fall to the floor if i saw césar vicente naked in my cave

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 5

  At least one, maybe two of these stars are for the amazing apartment Banderas' character lives in

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  Review by sofyan ★★★★★ 1

  "Love is not enough. Love may move mountains... But it is not enough to save the person you love."
  
  A masterpiece.

  Every Banderas's scene hurts me. The feeling that he shows, the pain that he felt, it felt so true!

  I loved it. Can't believe my first Pedro Almodóvar's film will be this good.

  That ending tho!!

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  Review by Laura ★★★★½ 4

  thinking about that directors roundtable where the interviewer asked greta gerwig “what is cinema?” & her answer was so heartfelt.. explaining how when you see it, you know. how you don’t miss it from the first shot. that perfectly sums up my experience with pain & glory. 
  a beautiful piece of art about the process of taking our memories and turning them into something new. about the magic of art reaching the one person who it was meant for, even if it takes 30 or 50 years.. and how time evaporates once it that thing reaches you. how it can thrust you back into a moment, full of vivid colors & love, and how it fuels you to keep creating.

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  Review by cinéfila... 🕯️ ★★★★½

  these salt & pepper gays... they're all i have

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 4

  i already thought it was pretty much a beautiful masterpiece before it had even finished and then that ending happened and wow i love art beautiful masterpiece confirmed!!!!!!!!

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 1

  “love isn’t enough”

  much more enthralling than i anticipated. it lags a little sometimes, but still solid all the way through

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  Review by Hungkat ★★★ 4

  Antonio Banderas *coughs*
  
  Me: Academy Award