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  Review by Sean Baker 6

  Almodóvar has been hitting home runs for 40 years. Audacious, mischievous and laugh-out-loud funny. Images that are wholly unique. Supposedly Almodóvar has distanced himself from this film for whatever reasons... if true, I hope he reconsiders. He should be quite proud.

  Watched the Region B Blu-ray. Extras include short featurette and interview with producer.

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  Review by Matt Fisher ★★

  I just can't help but feel that a movie about heroin-shooting lesbian nuns providing refuge to a showgirl on the run from the mob should've been more entertaining.

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  Review by Valentina

  pocas películas existen tan alineadas con mis intereses: lesbianas, monjas, drogas, obsesiones amorosas, marisa paredes y carmen maura.

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  Review by Kern ★★½

  Feels like Almodovar came up with the concept and didn't really put much effort into building a compelling narrative around it. Pretty disappointing because there are some really interesting characters and it the premise is initially intriguing, but really didn't come together in any meaningful way for me.

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  Review by kidcoppola ★★★★

  Nuns on dope? Forbidden love? A tiger in a convent? Sign me up, fam.

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  Review by carlos ★★★

  sor rata de cloaca un besazo pa ti mi reina

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  Review by Lisa Fremont ★★★★

  LESBIAN 👏🏻 HEROIN-ADDICTED 👏🏻 NUNS 👏🏻 AND 👏🏻 THEIR 👏🏻 PET 👏🏻 TIGER 👏🏻 

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  Review by Graham Williamson ★★★★

  When we covered Pain and Glory on the podcast I mentioned how sick to the back teeth I was of talking about Pedro Almodóvar's work in terms of the early, trashy ones and the later, mature ones, a divide that was first drawn in the mid-90s and has never stopped annoying me since. On the evidence of this, the difference between a 'mature' Almodóvar and an 'immature' one is simply a matter of more complex plotting. Everything else - the grand melodrama, the stylistic elegance, the sense of mischievous high cool - was always there. And one of his key 'mature' films - All About My Mother - features a pregnant HIV-positive nun, so you can't even say his subject matter became less confrontational...

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★½ 4

  Dark Habits. 1983. Directed by Pedro Almodovar 

  Campy, hilarious Almodovar with Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes, with Carmen Maura & Chus Lampeave as queer nuns. Almodovar’s third film is full of humor. Instead of a Nunnery full of pious nuns. The nuns inside are a reflection of nuns who have become Idependent. For example, they are publishing books, and doing hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine. The nunnery has lost one of its largest patrons so they have to resort to alternate methods to raise money to save the nunnery. 

  
  With Pedro’s queercentric storytelling and his troupe of actresses he managed to save and make Dark Habits (1983) into a hilarious, thought provoking, and irreverent. Pedro was clever as he promised…

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  Review by Juan Castillo ★★★

  Llego tan tarde a la única película de Pedro Almodóvar que tenía pendiente que es imposible no asimilarla como una pieza de museo con todo su mordiente sedimentado tras años de vaivenes en la consideración de lo que es transgresor, ofensivo o aceptado.
  Atendiendo a la evolución del cine de Almodóvar, Entre Tinieblas inaugura un tímido acercamiento al melodrama clásico –si quiera como ingrediente del cóctel–, incluye la primera reivindicación expresa del bolero y la canción melódica como muleta expresiva, y aglutina un mayor número de manierismos formales que sus antecesoras.
  A pesar de ello, y a pesar de que Sor Perdida golpee unos bongos para que el tigre de un convento no añore África (sic), de que Sor Estiércol…

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  Review by skःrऽɛs६ ★★★½

  Esta es una cajita de sorpresas.

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  Review by Nicolás Vargas ★★★½

  Almodóvar's Entre Tinieblas is political comedy gold and a massive fuck you to the vestiges of Francoism in 80's Spain. Setting this story in a convent enabled him to frame his scenes and images exactly like they did back in the Catholic Francoist Dictatorship, yet he created an imaginary - but very real - world in which the Dictator never actually existed, where scandalous nuns lived and enjoyed themselves; drugs, masochism, lust, murderers and even tigers are welcome in this hilarious house of God, a place where not so many years earlier the entire country was ruled upon -- Vengeance for Pedro is delivered here through silent yet playful eradication.

  The fascination with the female universe envisioned through exquisite production…