Martha (Tilda Swinton) and Ingrid (Julianne Moore) were friends in their youth, but, as life often does, it led them down different paths. When Ingrid learns that Martha has cancer, she visits her in ...

Moore is an Almodóvar newcomer who fits nicely into his gallery of sophisticated, intellectual women sifting through the past while swanning through the present in gorgeous costumes surrounded by ...

Pedro Almodovar, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton on the set of "The Room Next Door" After years marked by cold feet and false starts, the great Pedro Almodóvar made his English-language debut with ...

Martin Tsai was a fellow at the 2020 National Critics Institute of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and Poynter Institute’s 2023 Power of Diverse Voices workshop. His work has appeared in the Los ...

‘The Room Next Door’ receives 5.5 out of 10 stars. Opening in wide release in theaters on January 18th, ‘The Room Next Door’ represents something that would ordinarily be cause for celebration among ...

Characters die in movies every day. Whether you’re watching a violent thriller or a death-bed tearjerker like “Steel Magnolias” or some of the more macabre meditations of Ingmar Bergman, you might say ...

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” is one of those films that needs time to open up, like a flower. Its early scenes, in which former journalism colleagues Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha ...

Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still. In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first ...

Few directors have made movies as brashly and vibrantly youthful as Pedro Almodóvar—brilliantly colored, provocatively plotted, outrageously erotic films like “Law of Desire” and “Tie Me Up! Tie Me ...

After experimenting with short form in 2020’s The Human Voice and 2023’s Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar has finally delivered the first English-language feature in his illustrious career, The ...