Jorge Ayala Blanco
Jorge Ayala Blanco's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
El Financiero,
El Universal
| Publications: | El Financiero, El Universal |
Movie Reviews Only
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| 85% | The Girl With All the Gifts (2017) |
Ends up being situated to a subtle and sublime omni-exterminator side of the recent zombie fantasies. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 96% | Paterson (2016) |
A film that extends, consolidates and closes its folds as simply as possible. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 67% | Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (2016) |
A reaffirmation of romantic values and mutual understanding, above communal failure, discouragement and a general sense of emptiness. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 78% | The Beguiled (2017) |
The film points the triumph of delatation and extermination over Christian mercy, as well as the victory of dark eroticism over compassion and sentiment. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 83% | Urok (The Lesson) (2015) |
The feature debut of the Bulgarian directors, Grozeva and Valchanov, is heir to the best Italian post-neorealism. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 100% | I Am Nojoom, Age 10 And Divorced (2014) |
An intelligent and sensitive exercise of human rights in action to defeat the blatant anachronism of the marriage of girls. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 92% | Sieranevada (2016) |
It keeps the spectator in a state of multiple alertness, irritates, undermines, overwhelms, fascinates and delusions directly and indirectly thanks to its impeccable edition. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 92% | Dunkirk (2017) |
The new film of the British director abounds with a new vision in the figure of the unknown soldier from three dramatic spaces: land, sea and air, thus breaking with the idea of a blessed heroism. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 96% | After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) (2017) |
The film uses a generalized minor tone almost negligible for its investigation of the various emotional colors of the contemporary Japanese family in conflict. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2017
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| 93% | I, Daniel Blake (2017) |
A harrowing story that sets the hairs on end, the triumph of time and disappointment. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Jun 12, 2017
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| 86% | The Academy of Muses (La academia de las musas) (2016) |
The film that exposes its disjointed idea of ideal love, based on a structure also disjointed itself. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Jun 12, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Nobi (Fires on the Plain) (2014) |
A movie with a strong anti-war message.[Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted May 19, 2017
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| 98% | I Am Not Your Negro (2017) |
The film shows an extreme, anti-traditionalist and anti-white position, to which the only real and true History of the United States is the black History. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted May 15, 2017
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| 93% | Neruda (2016) |
A Dionysian mischief to consummate the heretical portrait of poet Neruda as an obsessed and unfaithful obese goblin, unceasingly self-parodying and self-destructing whimsically by his own impulse. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Mar 15, 2017
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| 96% | The Salesman (Forushande) (2017) |
The film comes from the shameful recognition of the amatory instability of a relationship that was already collapsed to pieces from the beginning and that it must go on in spite of everything. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Mar 15, 2017
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| 87% | Jackie (2016) |
A film that questions the show within the show, opening up to unpublished meditations and contexts, to continue surviving adversity and internal dismemberment. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 27, 2017
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| 73% | A Hologram for the King (2016) |
A film that takes the unusual metaphor of contemporary man as living hologram until unexpected limit consequences. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Prince (Prins) (2015) |
A confined film that combines sociological cut, family chronicle, urban thriller, romantic drama, fairy tale and the fable. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 95% | Marguerite (2016) |
An elegant film that always maintains the pathetic case of Margarita's vocation in the thin line that separates the corrosive mood of tenderness as a strong feeling. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 74% | Louder Than Bombs (2016) |
A wandering but superemotive film worthy of the intelligent Trier, portraitist of unsatisfied and hesitant manhood. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 100% | Li'l Quinquin (2015) |
A charming film of authorial authenticity that is placed in a strange humoristic-poetic alliance of criminal investigations and childhood mischief. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 83% | Julieta (2016) |
A very seductive film that explores the concepts of fate and the feeling of guilt. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 96% | In Jackson Heights (2015) |
A strong documentary that grants a very loving and panoramic view of the streets and the public spaces of this sector in Queens. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 95% | Manchester by the Sea (2016) |
A film that has a rhythmic sensitive pulse of a sweetly surprising dozen temporary swings and great award-winning performances. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2017
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| 82% | 3 Hearts (3 coeurs) (2015) |
A film that implies the basic paradox that drives it: unglamorous and low-profile creatures are assaulted, shaken and devastated by mad love. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2017
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| 96% | Cemetery of Splendor (2016) |
A film that shows the uneasy allegory of a country spoiled by the omnivorous military pressure on the defenseless civilian population. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2017
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| 89% | My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) (2016) |
A sensitive film of surprising changes of rhythm and tone that become constant, enriching in an arborescent way its sense but never modifying it. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2017
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| 57% | The Neon Demon (2016) |
A thrilling, more delirious and ethereal story than an abnormal narrative, from a plot-pretext and juicy cinephilic references to the work of great directors of the first wave of french cinema. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Mot naturen (Out of Nature) (2014) |
A serene film that exposes and conflicts the miseries of inner life (enslaved and bounded) in counterpoint and contrast with the magnificence of the exterior life. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2017
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| 91% | Norte, the End of History (2014) |
A deaf and tragic prison drama of ideologically intertwined stories. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2017
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| 90% | Mediterranea (2015) |
A destabilizing operation operates raw, despite its latent violence as a continuum in which images, sequences and ellipses occur fluidly, deftly staggered, linked, linked, without ever splicing. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 16, 2017
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| 93% | Right Now, Wrong Then (2016) |
A caressing melody film based on exposition of the subject and a single rough variation, a disjunctive and arborescent exercise. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 16, 2017
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| 64% | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) |
A film that successfully undertakes the doctrinal appropriation of the ultimate ends of humanity, both the finitude and the finality of life, its death and final judgment and its immediate resurrection. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 16, 2017
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| 70% | Café Society (2016) |
An authentic reinvention of melancholy as a unique vital coloration. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2017
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| 78% | American Honey (2016) |
An electrifying endless of rudeness, detours, affective shortcuts and ogresque tenderness. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2017
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| 86% | Sully (2016) |
A film about civil heroism, declining its foundations and seeds towards the collective feat, towards the sense of duty and epic discretion, with a final sparkling smile from the copilot. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2017
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| 82% | Captain Fantastic (2016) |
An unusual film that oscillates between a road movie and the chronicle of a family that beats in its terrain any alien domesticity and that concludes like a very preNobel homage to Bob Dylan. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2017
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| 100% | Sonita (2015) |
A crushing and intense docufiction that believes in the heroic kindness of its protagonist's challenging attitude and in irony as salvation. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2017
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| 44% | It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) (2016) |
A virtuous film where the farewells of the world of the living don't attempt to be sentimental or moving, but on the contrary frenetic and exhibitionist in their battered useless modesty. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2017
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| 91% | Elle (2016) |
A film as a game of encounters or audiovisual scrabble, made of forceful short sequences, sustained rhythm and ellipsis, with noble interpretations. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 13, 2017
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| 64% | Zoom (2016) |
A hyperhybrid adventure that reaches perfection by mixing cartoon techniques at an adult level. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 94% | Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) (2016) |
A documentary structured as a warm and avant-garde album of glittering images to slow political-poetic fire. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 91% | La La Land (2016) |
A film with a nostalgic dynamism that secretes a powerful and calmly positive current that summarizes and unifies all the negative energies. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 98% | Moonlight (2016) |
A radically disheartening film of beautifully disturbing and forceful images that tries to transmit moods and vital drives by strictly audiovisual means. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 80% | The Assassin (2015) |
A film of an absolute poetic and radical aura with dramatic and aesthetic virtues. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Oct 18, 2016
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| 82% | The Brand New Testament (Le tout nouveau testament) (2016) |
A playful film with lots of imagination, very provocative. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Jun 9, 2016
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| 60% | Saint Laurent (2015) |
A fantasy biopic that celebrates visually all the creativity and decadence surrounding the eponymous fashion designer. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Jun 1, 2016
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| 91% | The Witch (2016) |
Astonishing and beautiful debut of american production designer Robert Eggers. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted May 23, 2016
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| 85% | Hail, Caesar! (2016) |
A mix of film genres here are cursed, corrected and augmented to become a satire of the Hollywood system of old. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted May 3, 2016
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| 96% | Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo De La Serpiente) (2016) |
A very present and multidimensional historic adventure. It can be seen from different perspectives. [Full review in Spanish]‐ El Universal
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2016
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