The director’s adaptation of Alice Munro’s short stories is unsatisfying.

I’m So Excited will leave you anything but.

Pedro Almodóvar’s window into his work of art turns out to be no less obsessive, meticulous and distanced than his character’s attitude towards his own creation.

Everybody’s cup of tea: Penélope Cruz acts as an actor in a film within a film. Nearly every movie Pedro Almodóvar makes is a gift to cinema lovers, but that’s especially true of Broken Embraces. The film continues the director’s streak of reliably elegant, original works, making the case, once again, that there are few, if any, other European directors working today who can match his particular blend of thought-provoking, artful, yet wholly accessible…