When I first heard about Pedro Almodóvar’s new film “The Room Next Door,” I was intrigued. The director, known for his ability to capture the raw ...

The English-language debut from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is a disappointingly staid affair that can’t find life in ...

Her two brothers shared a room. Her parents slept in the room next door with the baby Annegret. Through the windows you can see row upon row of prisoner barracks, the camp’s tall concrete wall ...

A Federal-era home in Middletown, a wood-shingled house in Seattle and a 100-year-old brick house in Dallas.

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in "The Room Next Door." (Courtesy Iglesias Más/El Deseo/Sony Pictures Classics) “The Room Next Door” is director Pedro Almodóvar’s 25th feature ...

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore consider the middle distance in The Room Next Door. Courtesy: Sony Pictures Classics A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks.

Late last summer, the novelist Sigrid Nunez reflected on the upcoming adaptation of her book “What Are You Going Through,” about life, death and companionship, by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro ...

In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first English-language feature film, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author who’s just written a book about ...

Is there something Almodóvar’s not telling us? Let’s hope not. And, on the strength of “The Room Next Door,” his talky yet emotionally and metaphysically bracing new drama, let’s hope ...

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 ...

In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first English-language feature film, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author who’s just written a book about ...