3/5
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Justicia Artificial
(2024)
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Juan Pando
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The magnificent cinematography, the settings, and the cloudy skies inspire the appropriate somber mood in the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 16, 2024
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3/5
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Speak No Evil
(2024)
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Fausto Fernandez
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While Speak No Evil does not resort to the crudeness of its Danish-born model, it remains openly pessimistic and... Watkins allows himself a moment of liberating savagery that's unusual at Chez Blum. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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3/5
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Black Tea
(2024)
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Eulàlia Iglesias
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'Black Tea' resorts excessively to a set of commonplaces of Asian cinema aimed at Western audiences, instead of developing its own personality from a non-Eurocentric multicultural perspective. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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3/5
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Sidonie In Japan
(2023)
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Desirée De Fez
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Girard explores the protagonist's wonder with charming minimalist humor and impresses her image on the scenery through her adventure. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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3/5
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Marguerite's Theorem
(2023)
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Roger Salvans
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An interior journey that Novion captures without frills, in which chaos and mathematical calculations abound. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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4/5
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Anselm
(2023)
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Manu Yáñez
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... One of [Wenders'] most meditative films, in which archival images, new footage, and some fictional scenes are threaded to reveal the complexity of Kiefer's work. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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3/5
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Last Stop: Rocafort St.
(2024)
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Jordi Batlle Caminal
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This is an uneven movie, but it has a contagious doggedness, typical of someone who blindly believes in what it tells us and in the genre it belongs to. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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4/5
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El 47
(2024)
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Blai Morell
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Through a pristine albeit unsurprising story, the co-writer / director delivers a splendid film... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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4/5
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Reinas
(2024)
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Mariona Borrull
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[A] cubist portrait about absence. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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3/5
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A Silence
(2023)
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Laura Pérez
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What seems to be well-built falters, however, when the director waffles between focusing on the mother or the son, and in that lack of decision, the viewer also wavers. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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5/5
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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Extending his critical gaze toward contemporary America, Phillips aims with precision and fury at various ills of the modern world... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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4/5
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The Order
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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Kurzel delivers a glossy police thriller that warns viewers of ultra-conservative fanaticism in Trump's America. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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4/5
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Queer
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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However, despite the protagonist's afflictions, 'Queer' shines as the transgressive testimony of untamed debauchery that, while not devoid of contradictions, it's dazzlingly wild. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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3/5
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Babygirl
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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If 'Babygirl' reaches certain levels of transgression, it is thanks, above all, to Nicole Kidman... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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4/5
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The Room Next Door
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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Almodóvar composes a vibrant winter sonata in which life and death reconcile to account for the value of family legacies and emotional commitments. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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3/5
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Marco
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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In any case, if 'Marco' ends up being a satisfactory experience, it is largely thanks to the notable work of Eduard Fernández, who moves like a fish in water between Marco's duplicities... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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4/5
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Maria
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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From within the dialectic between woman and myth, emerges the monumental performance of Angelina Jolie... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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2/5
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The Other Way Around
(2024)
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Fausto Fernandez
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[The Other Way Around] is a voluntary distancing from cinema with a debatable and arbitrary use of its instruments. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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5/5
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The Other Way Around
(2024)
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Beatriz Martínez
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A movie-gem, delicate and blissful. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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4/5
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Bonnard, Pierre & Marthe
(2024)
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Antonio Trashorras
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Martin Provost's latest film is a deep, sensitive, and revealing vision of long-term human frictions and the importance of historical-social context in the evolution of people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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3/5
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The Crow
(2024)
|
Ricardo Rosado
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In an unexpected way, as if guided by a mystical crow determined to make us feel at home once again, the movie has found a certain gracefulness in its misfortune. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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3/5
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Manu Yáñez
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As the film progresses the subplots do not quite flourish and the excess gives way to a certain feeling of emptiness. Luckily, in its final stretch, the film rises again thanks, once again, to the interweaving of genre elements. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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3/5
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Menudas Piezas
(2024)
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Juan Pando
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... Without losing its comedic spark, the plot evolves predictably in line with this type of film about committed teachers. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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5/5
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MaXXXine
(2024)
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Beatriz Martínez
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Like 'Taxi Driver', with which it establishes some parallels, 'MaXXXine' comments on the sick society of the time, focusing on religious fanaticism, repression, puritanism, and violence against women. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 21, 2024
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3/5
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Haunted Heart
(2024)
|
Pablo Vázquez
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What remains is a disturbingly somber experiment and vice versa, as imperfect as its protagonists and as deceptive as that refuge that ultimately isn't... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 21, 2024
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4/5
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Fran Chico
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Álvarez, supported by his inseparable writing partner Sayagues, recovers the 'blue-collar' essence of the original, returning the spotlight to workers oppressed by the system... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 21, 2024
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3/5
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Buffalo Kids
(2024)
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Juan Pando
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There is no shortage of nods to 'Titanic' or 'Taxi Driver'... for adults. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2024
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3/5
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Mom, Is That You?!
(2023)
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Fausto Fernandez
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... A comedy, with a light dramatic tone, that seeks to be modern in its antiquity. There's humor to be found in the operetta of intrigues, affectionate moments, and dehumanized vision of Tokyo. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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3/5
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Bernadette
(2023)
|
Roger Salvans
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In her debut, Léa Domenach shows a good pulse for comedy... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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4/5
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The Sweet East
(2023)
|
Sergi Sánchez
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A film that makes chaos, mutability and creative freedom its dogmas of faith. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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3/5
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Cuerpo Escombro
(2024)
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Pablo Vázquez
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Cuerpo Escombro is more than a pleasant, comical, effective, and bold farce, where bad coffee becomes a feel-good 'macchiato'. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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4/5
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Trap
(2024)
|
Fausto Fernandez
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In its electric coming and going through the mouse maze with songs... Trap is a real blast. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 12, 2024
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3/5
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
(2024)
|
Antonio Trashorras
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We are perhaps facing the most vigorous adventure offered in a long time by European commercial cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 12, 2024
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3/5
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Borderlands
(2024)
|
Fausto Fernandez
|
'Borderlands' is not a "good" movie, but it is a prime example of how intelligently non-intelligent life existed and exists in unintelligent science fiction... where the misses are more interesting than the occasional hits. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 12, 2024
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4/5
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The Hypnosis
(2023)
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Manu Yáñez
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With his debut feature, 'Hipnosis', Ernst De Geer sets out to conquer cringe comedy with a surgical analysis of the flaws of capitalist society... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 12, 2024
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3/5
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Fly Me to the Moon
(2024)
|
Roger Salvans
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Berlanti proves himself in comedy and embraces with conviction the themes of the sixties romcom: a sugary and colorful war of the sexes a la Rock Hudson and Doris Day sieved through the 'Mad Men' filter... [Full review in Spansih]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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4/5
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Longlegs
(2024)
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Ricardo Rosado
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... To the beat of T. Rex, Perkins has turned Nicolas Cage into the most necessarily uncomfortable villain of contemporary horror cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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3/5
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Homecoming
(2023)
|
Mariona Borrull
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It is best to take shelter in the lightness of summer -- Jeanne Lapoirie's photography on the beaches of Corsica is pure heatwave -- clear and tasty like that ice cream you only vaguely remember in September. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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4/5
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Midwives
(2022)
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Laura Pérez
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This film is an example of how a good script, characters drawn with few but precise brushstrokes, and a director's clear and purposeful denunciation can be something more than the sum of its parts. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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3/5
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The Monk and the Gun
(2023)
|
Desirée De Fez
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The actors' performances, who gracefully convey the confusion and doubt of the characters, play in favor of the text. What is missing, however, is a little causticity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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5/5
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DogMan
(2023)
|
Jesús Palacios
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A baroque comicstrip superhero who is also a supervillain, 'Dogman' is a beast that does not know or respect norms, genres or styles. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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2/5
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DogMan
(2023)
|
Blai Morell
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What was supposed to be a return to form results in a whim as subtle as a sandwich made out of bottlecaps. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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4/5
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The Bikeriders
(2023)
|
Laura Pérez
|
Yesterday's world against today's. But if there is a constant in Jeff Nichols' cinema, it's his faith in the redemptive power of love... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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3/5
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The Strangers: Chapter 1
(2024)
|
Fausto Fernandez
|
Concentric twists and harrowing repetition of situations occur as if in a dream, despite its dirty realism... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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3/5
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Norbert(a)
(2024)
|
Juan Pando
|
This dramatic comedy is one of those films that are defined by the exceptional work of its protagonist, in this case a colossal Luis Bermejo. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 30, 2024
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3/5
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And the Party Goes On
(2023)
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Jordi Batlle Caminal
|
Speaks of supportive and optimistic people, despite life's setbacks. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 25, 2024
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3/5
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In a Violent Nature
(2024)
|
Desirée De Fez
|
For film fans looking for new formal ways to explore horror. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 24, 2024
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4/5
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Deadpool & Wolverine
(2024)
|
Fausto Fernandez
|
For old-school Marvelites in favor of the great and definitive killing joke. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 24, 2024
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3/5
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The Nature of Love
(2023)
|
Pablo Vázquez
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The Nature of Love is not ashamed of its complexes or its contradictions, and closes the story with a down-to-earth ending that adds layers to its discourse or the lack thereof. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 24, 2024
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Twisters
(2024)
|
Fausto Fernandez
|
It brilliantly doses out the apparitions, the fury and the ravages of the tornadoes, without falling into a succession of things flying and things being destroyed. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 24, 2024
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