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Live Flesh Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    69

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Village Voice J. Hoberman

    A soap opera as convoluted as it is overdetermined. [20 Jan 1998]

  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Almodovar is positively mature, adapting a novel by Ruth Rendell so deftly that the plot now also describes the invigorating and sometimes disorienting effects of democracy after long years of repression under the Franco regime.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Everything (not just the flesh) is vibrant with life.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    Live Flesh is an effortlessly articulated tragicomedy by Pedro Almodovar, a world-renowned filmmaker at the height of his powers. [30 Jan 1998]

  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times Janet Maslin

    A richly detailed tale of passion, perfidy and revenge adapted from a typically tricky Ruth Rendell novel.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Lisa Nesselson

    Most of all, the satisfyingly cinematic screen adaptation puts motion and energy into a story that was mostly internalized from Victor's perspective in Rendell's book.

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