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
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3.5/5 | 100% | Hope (Håp) (2019) |
The dance of emotions is powerful. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2021
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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)
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| Posted Dec 9, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Dec 1, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Nov 23, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Nov 12, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Nov 5, 2020
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3/5 | 88% | Adam (2019) |
A sugary vision on feminism in Morocco. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Nov 3, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2020
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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
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| Posted Oct 22, 2020
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5/5 | 98% | Vitalina Varela (2020) |
With Vitalina Varela [director Pedro] Costa has reached a new zenith. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Oct 12, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Oct 7, 2020
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3/5 | 70% | 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)
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| Posted Sep 9, 2020
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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
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| Posted Sep 7, 2020
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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
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| Posted Sep 6, 2020
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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
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| Posted Sep 6, 2020
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4/5 | 73% | A Land Imagined (2018) |
An absorbing, dreamlike and devastating noir. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 31, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Aug 25, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Aug 17, 2020
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4/5 | 100% | White on White (Blanco en blanco) (2019) |
Evocative and disturbing. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 28, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Jul 2, 2020
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4/5 | 95% | Marona's Fantastic Tale (L'Extraordinaire voyage de Marona) (2020) |
A beautiful homage to her pet. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Jun 24, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Jun 12, 2020
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2.5/5 | 70% | Britt-Marie Was Here (2019) |
It doesn't take much to guess how the plot will unfold. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Jun 4, 2020
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3.5/5 | 96% | 1985 (2018) |
[Cory Michael Smith's] performance supports the entire film. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted May 29, 2020
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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)
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| Posted May 22, 2020
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2.5/5 | 69% | Stockholm (2019) |
Routine and unimaginative. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted May 7, 2020
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.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
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| Posted Apr 24, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Mar 3, 2020
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3/5 | 83% | Queen & Slim (2019) |
A remarkable debut, but it is far from being an icon. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Feb 26, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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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)
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| Posted Feb 3, 2020
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3.5/5 | 69% | 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)
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| Posted Feb 3, 2020
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90% | 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
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| Posted Jan 31, 2020
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3/5 | 84% | Waves (2019) |
Trey Edward Shults has signed a very ambitious film that borders, however, pretentiousness. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine
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| Posted Jan 31, 2020
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4/5 | 90% | Dark Waters (2019) |
A great legal thriller... not to be missed. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Jan 22, 2020
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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
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| Posted Dec 27, 2019
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2/5 | 20% | Cats (2019) |
An incoherent pastiche that combines theater, film, and digital technology with virtually no skill. [Full Review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Dec 23, 2019
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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
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| Posted Dec 4, 2019
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4/5 | 93% | Invisible Life (A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão) (2019) |
[A] sumptuous melodrama. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Nov 19, 2019
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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)
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| Posted Nov 19, 2019
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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)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2019
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3/5 | 64% | Love Actually (2003) |
Some of the stories this film tells really hook you in. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine
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| Posted Nov 4, 2019
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4/5 | 98% | Fourteen (2020) |
Naked, meticulous, hurtful and touching. [Full Review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Nov 4, 2019
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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
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| Posted Oct 22, 2019
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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)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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4.5/5 | 92% | Fire Will Come (A Sun That Never Sets) (O Que Arde) (2020) |
A cry in flames. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Oct 9, 2019
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3/5 | 83% | Four Hands (Die Vierhändige) (2018) |
The film moves along with an excellent narrative pulse. [Full Review in Spanish] - Sensacine
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| Posted Sep 11, 2019
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4/5 | 40% | The Summer House (Les estivants) (2018) |
Hilarious entanglements and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: the ideal summer. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 12, 2019
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4/5 | 87% | The Dead and the Others (Chuva é cantoria na aldeia dos mortos) (2018) |
An invitation to empathy... without artifice or imposture. [Full review in Spanish] - Cinemanía (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 6, 2019
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