The Room Next Door
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 20, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
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Generally favorable reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
34
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 27, 2024
See The Room Next Door for its stunning mid-century architecture, chic interior design, and for Swinton’s enviable euthanasia wardrobe. But don’t expect to feel much of anything, unless you have an unhealthy passion for colour-blocked chunky knitwear. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyOct 24, 2024
From Wim Wenders’s Hammett to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth, the English-language debut is a rock on which many directors have run aground. So it proves with Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, a picture stuffed with good performances, pretty things and weighty dialogue that nonetheless fails to coalesce into the shape of an Almodóvar film. Read full review
60
Little White LiesHannah StrongOct 22, 2024
It’s an elegant film, reckoning empathetically with an extremely complex topic, but there’s a slight sense that something is missing, keeping The Room Next Door from ever really becoming truly great. Read full review
60
ColliderMartin TsaiSep 2, 2024
Given Almodóvar’s established penchant for melodrama and that the subject is euthanasia, the film is strangely aloof. It never reduces the proceedings to Lifetime territory or patronizes moviegoers in the process. It does, however, leave you to wonder a bit about the indifference you might ultimately come away with yourself. Read full review
60
Screen RantAlex HarrisonSep 2, 2024
The Spanish director's fingerprint is there, undoubtedly. But the movie feels strangely incomplete, as if made with one hand tied behind his back. Read full review
58
IndieWireRyan LattanzioSep 2, 2024
Elegant and confounding in equivalent measure, Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature could’ve used a finishing touch from an American script supervisor. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 17, 2025
It’s all perfectly high-minded and polished, but all of this could have been treated with more spark than comes across here. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerDec 21, 2024
Its formal lyricism offset by a script that’s intolerably clunky, it’s an affected portrait of euthanasia and friendship that gets lost in translation. Read full review
50
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossSep 2, 2024
There is something not quite right about this one Almodóvar film, a dramedy that emulates all that makes a story Almodovarian but bypasses its essence entirely. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinSep 2, 2024
Almodóvar has always been the sole screenwriter of his films – but perhaps in this case, keeping an English assistant in a nearby antechamber might have been a wise move. Read full review
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