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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThis small package stands alongside the exemplary feature-length work in one of this generation’s foremost filmographies.
- 100Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarLos Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarSwinton manifests, with magnificently nuanced modulation, an emotional tangle; at times, it is raw with a cathartic force, while enmeshed with meekly conciliatory moments of codependence. Wielding a hatchet with violent purpose or begging for a final rendezvous, Swinton’s every scorching word cuts deep.
- 91IndieWireNicholas BarberIndieWireNicholas BarberIt’s a sharp if slightly caricatured portrait of despair and loneliness — and, indeed, madness and melancholy.
- 91The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangThis is Almodóvar, and so the magnificence is worn lightly, with irony and mischief and a cheeky little moral about how to be a modern woman trapped in the very unmodern role of spurned lover: be hysterical if you want, be philosophical if you can, but never underestimate the liberating power of a little light revenge.
- 89Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganInstead of acting as a short, satisfying jaunt through Almodóvar’s aesthetic, The Human Voice is an exercise in deconstructing the very tenets the filmmaker has propped himself on throughout the entirety of his career.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreNew York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreThe Human Voice is all about the muddied lines between the fabricated and the genuine, and about how much a performance can be divorced from the sincere feelings that might be undergirding it.
- 75The Film StageDavid KatzThe Film StageDavid KatzAlmodóvar’s work always evokes other artforms beyond the cinema. The Human Voice shows how great texts are malleable: this is his particular take, and not a definitive, canonical edition.
- 50Vanity FairCassie da CostaVanity FairCassie da CostaThe Human Voice’s images tend to call out in vain; not an utterance is heard. They are symbols suspended in time and space, indicators of something that doesn’t seem to matter very much.