Paula Arantzazu Ruiz

Paula Arantzazu Ruiz
Paula Arantzazu Ruiz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Sensacine Cinemanía (Spain)
Publications: Sensacine, Cinemanía (Spain)

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
2.5/5 No Score Yet Woman (2020) [Transforms] a well-intentioned initiative into a complacent, even paternalistic piece. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 4, 2021
3.5/5 No Score Yet La Mami (2019) Laura Herrero Garvín's documentary is a revealing study of the productive force of women's bodies. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 2, 2021
4/5 97% Two of Us (Deux) (2021) A very vivid story about yearning desire, universal in scope. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 17, 2021
2.5/5 No Score Yet The Gazelle's Dance (El baile de la gacela) (2018) [Doesn't deviate] even a millimeter from the conventions of this type of story. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 28, 2021
3.5/5 100% Hope (Håp) (2021) The dance of emotions is powerful. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 19, 2021
4.5/5 100% My Mexican Bretzel (2019) [Reminds] us of the photogenicity of passions en sotto voce, of trapped desire. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2020
3.5/5 100% Josep (2020) [Director Aurel] approaches the figure of Josep Bartolí in Josep with a just veneration and prudent distance, perhaps too much, knowing the impossibility of accurately portraying the misery of the exiled. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 1, 2020
3.5/5 No Score Yet Anatomy of a Dandy (Anatomía de un Dandy) (2020) The tribute is moving and funny, because perhaps [Francisco] Umbral was also like that. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 23, 2020
4.5/5 No Score Yet Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) (2020) Maqueda shares weaknesses and enthusiasm, with lyrical displays and reflective detours, but without ever losing the goal of his purpose: to enjoy the steps taken. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2020
3.5/5 97% La Llorona (2020) [Director Jayro] Bustamante braids this amalgam of ideas and intentions in an elegant way. [Full review win Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 12, 2020
2.5/5 No Score Yet The Ideal Palace (L'incroyable Hhistoire du facteur cheval) (2018) The film fails to go beyond Cheval's self-absorption. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 5, 2020
3/5 90% Adam (2021) A sugary vision on feminism in Morocco. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 3, 2020
4/5 100% Red Moon Tide (Lúa vermella) (2020) The more the film moves toward the esoteric, the more fascinating its images become. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 27, 2020
4/5 99% Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) A heartbreaking look at the structural macho violence that women face today. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 22, 2020
5/5 98% Vitalina Varela (2020) With Vitalina Varela [director Pedro] Costa has reached a new zenith. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 12, 2020
4/5 No Score Yet Dehesa: Forest of the Iberian Lynx (El Bosque del Lince Ibérico) (2020) Achieves captivating images. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 7, 2020
3/5 71% The One and Only Ivan (2020) [A film] with all the nuances that a film for all audiences allows... thanks to its director, Thea Sharrock. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 9, 2020
4/5 88% The Swallows of Kabul (Les hirondelles de Kaboul) (2019) [T]he delicacy with which they have translated Khadra's words into images leads us to think that behind there is a considerable ethical and artistic effort make this worthwhile to see. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2020
3.5/5 99% The Chambermaid (La camarista) (2019) A solvent portrait of the lengths we go to in producing capital. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 6, 2020
4.5/5 100% Schoolgirls (Las niñas) (2020) Palomero's film is a very powerful Proustian bomb, which will explode like peta-zetas in the memory of today's adult Spanish women. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 6, 2020
4/5 75% A Land Imagined (2018) An absorbing, dreamlike and devastating noir. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 31, 2020
2.5/5 77% Judy & Punch (2020) This curious film is handled somewhat coarsely... but is no less relevant for that. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 25, 2020
3/5 100% The Father (Bashtata) (2019) It's not easy to maintain such a fast pace, nor is it easy to distinguish between hilarity and hysteria. [Filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov] succeed. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 17, 2020
4/5 100% White on White (Blanco en blanco) (2019) Evocative and disturbing. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2020
3/5 88% Divine Love (Divino Amor) (2020) The ideas about Divine Love's evangelical sci-fi society are certainly sharp. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 2, 2020
4/5 96% Marona's Fantastic Tale (L'Extraordinaire voyage de Marona) (2020) A beautiful homage to her pet. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 24, 2020
2.5/5 94% Come As You Are (2020) Although it constantly underlines the leading trio's autonomy and maturity, it fails to stop seeing them as mischievous children. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 12, 2020
2.5/5 71% Britt-Marie Was Here (2019) It doesn't take much to guess how the plot will unfold. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 4, 2020
3.5/5 96% 1985 (2018) [Cory Michael Smith's] performance supports the entire film. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted May 29, 2020
3/5 100% Keep Going (Continuer) (2018) In some scenes this... violence is capable of moving us to unexpected and beautiful places [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted May 22, 2020
2.5/5 70% Stockholm (2019) Routine and unimaginative. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted May 7, 2020
.5/5 15% I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) Nobody would have guessed that the refined Alexander Payne would sign on this kind of homophobic comedy full of stereotypes. [Full review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 24, 2020
3/5 76% Skin (2019) A path of redemption and many obstacles that sustains itself in its good performances. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 3, 2020
3/5 83% Queen & Slim (2019) A remarkable debut, but it is far from being an icon. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 26, 2020
4.5/5 88% Synonyms (Synonymes) (2019) The result is admirable, both for its audacity and for its complacency. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 11, 2020
4/5 93% And Then We Danced (2020) We are not only reminded that the personal is always political; but that few things are more thrilling than seeing a body freeing itself from its chains. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2020
3.5/5 68% Bombshell (2019) The three blonde protagonists transform the film into something more than another film about the prologues to the #MeToo and Time's Up movement. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2020
89% Dark Waters (2019) All the cinematographic elements are put at the service of a story so chilling that it does not seem true. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2020
3/5 84% Waves (2019) Trey Edward Shults has signed a very ambitious film that borders, however, pretentiousness. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2020
4/5 89% Dark Waters (2019) A great legal thriller... not to be missed. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 22, 2020
4/5 95% Little Women (2019) A lively and faithful adaptation, and at the same time it's personal and committed. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 27, 2019
2/5 19% Cats (2019) An incoherent pastiche that combines theater, film, and digital technology with virtually no skill. [Full Review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 23, 2019
4/5 93% Invisible Life (A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão) (2019) Carol Duarte and Julia Stockler deliver wonderfully vulnerable performances. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 4, 2019
4/5 93% Invisible Life (A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão) (2019) [A] sumptuous melodrama. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 19, 2019
3/5 No Score Yet Idrissa, Chronicle of an Ordinary Death (Idrissa, crónica de una muerte cualquiera) (2019) [Directors Xapo Ortega and Xavier Artigas] film with closeness and without fuss. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 19, 2019
3.5/5 No Score Yet The Painting (El Cuadro) (2019) Above all, [Andrés Sanz's proposal is] enjoyable. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2019
3/5 64% Love Actually (2003) Some of the stories this film tells really hook you in. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 4, 2019
4/5 98% Fourteen (2020) Naked, meticulous, hurtful and touching. [Full Review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 4, 2019
4.5/5 92% Fire Will Come (A Sun That Never Sets) (O Que Arde) (2020) Laxe takes us towards a perturbing and urgent journey. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 22, 2019
3.5/5 No Score Yet Staff Only (2019) Not bad for a film that has an innocent family trip at an African resort as its premise. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain) EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2019