For much of The Room Next Door, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton find themselves in a brutalist house in upstate New York. It’s a rental property, comprising zig-zagging rooms built into a hillside. Despite the slate-grey walls and jagged roofs,

The Spanish director believes his first English-language film The Room Next Door merits awards for both his stars.

Although “The Room Next Door” is Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton says it’s in the director’s inimitable style.

Pedro Almodóvar usually knows just how to deploy melodrama to heighten his work. His Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton drama feels misjudged.

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door is a hilarious take, albeit dark, on the seriousness of death and man's perpetual struggle to accept it in its full glory.