The Room Next Door

Name: The Room Next Door
Genre: Drama
Released: December 20, 2024
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 70
Cast: John Turturro, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 20, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: John Turturro, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton

Summary: Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme butIngrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.… Expand

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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G. Allen Johnson

Jan 2, 2025

Aided by sumptuous cinematography (Eduard Grau), a haunting score (Alberto Iglesias) and eye-popping production design (Inbal Weinberg) – there’s always a font of interior decorating ideas in an Almodóvar film – Martha’s journey toward the great unknown has everything but a light at the end of the tunnel. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Jan 9, 2025

The reward of the film is watching these two consummate performers playing off each other. Moore is characteristically empathetic and sincere. Swinton, by contrast, is enigmatic and controlling as they wrestle with their different agendas and find mutual consolation in their friendship. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 23, 2024

I myself found it as extravagant and engrossing and doggedly mysterious as anything he has done recently, with luxuriously self-aware performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and an undertow of darkness often overlooked by yeasayers and naysayers. Read full review

Jake Coyle

Dec 18, 2024

What absolutely, undoubtedly does work is Moore and Swinton together. If some of the more melodramatic or crime-movie flourishes feel forced, the central relationship of “The Room Next Door” is consistently provocative. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Sep 2, 2024

The Room Next Door is an alternately rapturous and ponderous meditation on mortality, though in a very Almodóvarian fashion, that exploration comes by way of a fantasy of set directing one’s own death, down to the moment, location, and outfit worn. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Dec 6, 2024

Much of what makes a great Pedro Almodovar film can be found in The Room Next Door: a layered narrative, a thoughtful color scheme, a focus on women, and an intense interest in sex and/or death. But a certain vitality is strangely missing, and not because of the subject matter. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Jan 9, 2025

Such an important and tender subject as assisted suicide deserves more than this mawkish, soapish nonsense. Read full review

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