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Cristina Aparicio
Cristina Aparicio's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Gamma Rays (2023) |
The result is a cohesive, luminous, and hopeful story about today's youth, a generation eager to look towards the horizon. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 11, 2023
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Mother, Couch (2023) |
When Mother, Couch detaches itself from everything on which it seems to be based and lets the cryptic take over the narrative, it, paradoxically, becomes more conventional and predictable. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Achilles (2023) |
A film, in short, that is committed to what it represents and that treasures images so that they do not fall into oblivion. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 02, 2023
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An Optical Illusion (2020) |
An elegant essay on illusionism, cinema and its multiple (and magical) possibilities. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Jan 18, 2022
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Uppercase Print (2020) |
The proposal, radical in its forms and fully coherent in its background, allows for a scathing analysis of a little-known episode (silenced, actually) of the country's recent history from its theatricalization. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Jan 05, 2022
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The Rust (2021) |
In its second act, The Rust becomes somewhat more cryptic and at the same time more stimulating in visual terms. [Full review in Spanish[ - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 29, 2021
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Carajita (2021) |
Ulises Porra and Silvina Schnicer have created unique visual poetics that combines the images' physicality, strong lighting contrasts and powerful chromatic synergies. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 27, 2021
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That Weekend (2021) |
There's something particularly significant in Mara Pescio's debut, an unconventional feature in this type of story that makes this family drama breathe with freshness and optimism. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 27, 2021
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Inventory (2021) |
The way in which the filmmaker moves from police intrigue to psychological drama is captivating. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 23, 2021
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Lost in Summer (2021) |
[Indefiniteness] turns out to be the great virtue of a film that narrates the existential drift of a young man stranded at the gates of maturity. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Aloners (2021) |
A precise portrait of the pressing disengagement that reigns in the hyper-connected society. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Miracle (2021) |
A film that concludes with a terrible truth: sometimes, repairing the damage caused is, simply, a selfish act. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Between Two Dawns (2021) |
There is a thoughtful staging that aims to provoke suspense from the dosage of information within the shot. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Unwanted (2021) |
[Unwanted] stands out, above all, in the way in which the filmmaker composes the shots, making traits as diverse as tenderness and anguish, or social and social precariousness coexist in the same frame. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Mass (2021) |
A film that you feel growing with every minute. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2021
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The Noise of Engines (2021) |
A daring film... that captivates and baffles in equal measure. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Josefina (2021) |
Not knowing what happens... is a gift for the viewer and their ability to imagine happy endings. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Hilda's Short Summer (2021) |
A diptych about memory (its construction and its effects) and the way it infiltrates even the unreached future. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2021
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A Cop Movie (2021) |
The challenge arises not to give away too much of its plot, nor to excessively delight in its many virtues. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 20, 2021
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Love Me Tender (2019) |
A magical (and painful) story of survival. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Dec 04, 2020
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Simon Chama (2020) |
The filmmaker is tremendously consistent with the reality she portrays. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Nov 23, 2020
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The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020) |
Poetic. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 30, 2020
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The Salt of Tears (2020) |
Ends up falling into a discourse that is as obvious as it is problematic. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 30, 2020
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The Trouble with Being Born (2020) |
Allows the filmmaker to show a fractured, cryptic and enigmatic identity. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2020
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Los Conductos (2020) |
Tangled. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2020
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Herself (2020) |
A hopeful call for female empowerment and also a plea for sisterhood. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2020
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The Woman Who Ran (2019) |
As simple as it is beautiful. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2020
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Yellow Cat (2020) |
Shares some of the virtues of [Adilkhan Yerzhanov's] previous film. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2020
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The Calming (2020) |
A silent exercise of (personal) resistance where the beautiful and the sublime converge. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Tragic Jungle (2020) |
The way in which [director Yulene] turns the colonial drama into an enigmatic environmental plea... is captivating. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Nomadland (2020) |
A hopeful portrait that raises existential questions, always granting the space and time necessary for everyone to find their own answers. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Wife of a Spy (2020) |
Wife of a Spy is, above all, a beautiful exercise in narrative condensation where reality and fiction continually intertwine. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2020
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Days (2020) |
The filmmaker recounts with masterful transcendence what in essence exists to be forgotten, turning the film into a timeless waiting space. - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2020
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Fauna (2020) |
A brilliant metanarrative exercise. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2020
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The Bra (2018) |
A sincere film whose value lies in its simplicity, its innocent and unprejudiced gaze. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Jul 31, 2020
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Marona's Fantastic Tale (2019) |
An avant-garde cocktail... that appeals through simplicity to the greatness behind unconditional love. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Jun 29, 2020
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Los Lobos (2019) |
A beautiful exercise in shared memory. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Jun 22, 2020
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The Sharks (2019) |
The eighties aesthetic is... a brave formal decision that (as she herself recognizes) bears the identity of its creator. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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The Sleepwalkers (2019) |
A film as bright as it is personal that demonstrates the virtuosity and skill of a great filmmaker. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Rocks (2019) |
Honesty is the best of the fimmaker's virtues who puts realism before melodrama. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Seventeen (2019) |
There is nothing but honesty and much humility in the story. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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The Giant (2019) |
A terrifying emotional puzzle. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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First Love (2019) |
What could have been a delicate and tragic drama about the love of two young people, translates into a fun slapstick that flirts with all kinds of genres. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Giraffe (2019) |
[Director] Anna Sofie Hartmann's second feature film is both a catalog of memories and an exciting reflection on the influence of space in the construction of memories. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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And the Birds Rained Down (2019) |
A nuanced collective portrait... of its three protagonist octogenarians. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 26, 2019
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Pacified (2019) |
Pacified is, above all, a story about humanity that resides in the most unprotected places. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 26, 2019
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Jordi's Letters (2019) |
A beautiful reflection. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 26, 2019
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A beautiful fable about family relationships. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 26, 2019
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Patrick (2019) |
Slow and tedious. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2019
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A Thief's Daughter (2019) |
A film that shows that the only tangible thing that matters is to have someone hold your hand. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2019
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