Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Haunting of the Queen Mary 2023

  ★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2024

  (Spanish text below / texto en español más abajo).

  I don't remember an extravagance like this since Masters of Horror times. Flawed in almost every way a movie can be flawed, sure, but so crazy, weird and filled with ideas and personality that I enjoyed it a lot anyway.
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  No recuerdo una extravagancia de este tipo desde los tiempos de Masters of Horror. Fallida en todos los aspectos en que una película puede serlo, sin duda, pero tan loca, rara y llena de ideas y personalidad que la disfruté mucho de todos modos.

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  (Spanish text below / texto en español más abajo).

  Filmed like some kind of perfume ad mixed with a music video, channeling the over-the-top body horror of Brian Yuzna's Society, and telling a story between The Picture of Dorian Grey and Snow White, The Substance manages to balance its eccentricities and referents in a way that I never felt forced or phony, and results in a bizarrely fun experience. It's a tricky film for sure (its characters, like the villains…

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  The Second Act 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Nov 2024

  (Spanish text below / texto en español más abajo).

  A really funny and smart little comedy that, at the same time, parodies and pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard, but that may not be that funny if you are not particularly interested in the current and (expectable) future of cinema, or, more precisely, French cinema (the movie itself tho, being as meta as it is, pokes fun at that arguably understandable disinterest). In any case, it's very remarkable how, just by…

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