Ángel Fernández-Santos

Ángel Fernández-Santos
Ángel Fernández-Santos's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): El Pais (Spain)
Publications: El Pais (Spain)

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
50% That's Life! (1986) The short script lacks originality, but the abilities of the director and actor allow it to stay afloat. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2020
No Score Yet Trial Of The Road (Proverka Na Dorogakh) (1986) This film marks the birth of a genius filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2020
100% The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) It's a passionate minor movie where the image is the simple support of a powerful story. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2020
72% Hellraiser (1987) More than with terror, the movie plays with revulsion. And that is its (relative) novelty. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2020
90% Yeelen (Brightness) (1987) A simple and beautiful story about the long initiation journey of a young prince. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2020
100% Dark Eyes (Oci Ciornie) (1987) Dark Eyes is an unsurpassable lesson in the difficult task of creating true cinema from true literature. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 16, 2020
No Score Yet Un homme amoureux (A Man in Love) (1987) The tone is artificial and somewhat overburdened. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 15, 2020
86% Phantom of the Paradise (1974) This is one of those works where the parts are better than the whole... The overall result is disappointing. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 3, 2020
77% Dead of Winter (1986) The film is a monstrosity. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 3, 2020
82% Turtle Diary (1985) The metaphor is so poor that Harold Pinter's talent doesn't manage to elevate the movie... provoking in viewers a feeling of frustration. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 22, 2020
76% Fatal Attraction (1987) Fatal Attraction is a shameless stew of sensationalist effects, destined to give the appearance of a movie to its absolute emptiness. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 22, 2020
98% Alien (1979) A dreadful and gloomy film, with a clear development and full of emotion. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 22, 2020
94% Moonstruck (1987) The movie is pleasant, full of charm, entertaining, subtle, at times complicated, but always easy to follow. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2020
85% Mauvais Sang (1987) A work of a conscientious erudite who still has absolutely nothing to say. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2020
76% Cry Freedom (1987) [Richard] Attenborough manages to skillfully balance entertainment with didacticism. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
88% Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987) The director's inhibition paradoxically goes well with Berry's lack of inhibition, and the music as well as certain spontaneous aspects of the odd and strong personality of the legendary musician are there. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
No Score Yet Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (My Friend Ivan Lapshin) (1984) A beautiful and complex film. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
93% The Dead (1987) The film is bitter but serene, tough but fragile. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
77% Barfly (1987) Mickey Rourke's controlled histrionic performance and Faye Dunaway's intelligent unaffected behavior alone make the movie worth seeing. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
84% Wish You Were Here (Too Much) (1987) It has a strange iconoclast charm. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
75% Empire of the Sun (1987) The great industrial product becomes a mediocre artistic object. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2020
100% My Life as a Dog (Mitt Liv som Hund) (1987) A simple and captivating Swedish movie that has no precedents, especially when it comes to its masterful command of humor or pathos. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 16, 2020
20% Beyond Therapy (1987) The script takes the movie on the right path... but it is weakened by Altman's inability to handle this genre. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 16, 2020
79% Wall Street (1987) A lavish misstep in the straight career of this filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2020
78% True Stories (1986) An organic mixture of poetry and irony, tenderness and sharpness, and a sense of the ordinary and the incredible. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2020
98% Broadcast News (1987) It achieves an unexpected flow in its development and an even more unexpected magic in certain moments. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2020
80% Sammy and Rosie (1987) [Stephen] Frears doesn't know how to make credible the characters that populate his story. And the movie, in the second half, slips from his hands. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2020
58% Ironweed (1987) Misery is made into an esthetic. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2020
67% Suspect (1987) [Director Peter] Yates limits himself to illustrating, and not always in a good way, Eric Roth's original script. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2020
50% Less Than Zero (1987) An exaggerated descriptive vehicle without dramatic function. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2020
No Score Yet Le miraculé (1987) A short and clumsy film, where [director Jean-Pierre] Mocky wants a lot but achieves very little, or nothing at all. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 3, 2020
48% Can't Buy Me Love (1987) Its conformist happy ending negates the initial nonconformist feeling of the original premise. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
No Score Yet Crazy Love (1987) A bitter movie, but at the same time, it's tender, simple, and full of pain. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
No Score Yet Da grande (1988) It's a missed opportunity that hurts when it recalls those inimitable comedies of the past. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
No Score Yet Zavtra Byla Voyna (1988) A simple, beautiful, and moving movie. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
93% Manhunter (1986) Manhunter starts off being interesting, but almost with no transition, it ends up being solemnly boring. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
73% Best Seller (1987) Best Seller is an intelligent and intuitive movie. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
44% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) An enduring jewel in the history of film comedies. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 1, 2020
10% Crocodile Dundee II (1988) It's nothing more than an opportunist shadow of the first. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
62% The Monster Squad (1987) A hybrid and indecisive film. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
97% Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud) (1987) There's love and elegance, delicacy even, in the way Axel narrates this story about friendship and gratitude. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
22% Max My Love (Max Mon Amour) (1996) The movie gets boring when it fails to make the absurdity credible. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
88% Blazing Saddles (1974) A bad parody of Westerns. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
No Score Yet Berlin Blues (1989) Berlin Blues gives us back one of our best filmmakers. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2020
83% Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang) (1987) A beautiful, energetic, and at the same time subtle movie. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2020
36% Walker (1987) The action ends up feeling clumsy, jumbled, confused, and gratuitously distorted. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2020
No Score Yet Stars and Bars (1988) The actors and directors didn't know how to properly combine comedy and farce. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2020
59% The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) The Milagro Beanfield War is always entertaining and at times exciting. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2020
17% Poltergeist III (1988) There's nothing here aside from a pure and simple cinematic emptiness. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 25, 2020
98% My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Despite its irregularities, the film is worth watching. It is lively and truthful. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 10, 2020