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      Elsa Fernández-Santos

      Elsa Fernández-Santos

      Elsa Fernández-Santos's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): El Pais (Spain)
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      Rating T-Meter Title | Year Review
      Riddle Of Fire (2023) Revamped fantasies that culminate in magical pop realism where witches, fairies, and rubber guns evoke a childhood in which Hansel and Gretel coexist with the Playstation. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 26, 2023
      Four Daughters (2023) A meta-narrative that bordered the insupportable at first and that later somewhat redeems itself, yet, all that remains is the feeling of powerlessness at a film incapable of carrying out its own premise. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      Banel & Adama (2023) Ramata-Toulaye Sy's debut feature is a beautiful telluric fable about love and drought on Earth. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      Firebrand (2023) The oppressive and mortuary atmosphere and the religious and political intrigues paint an intimate fresco in which an overweight Jude Law immerses himself as the repulsive, dying king. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      Anatomy of a Fall (2023) [Justine Triet] rather amazingly dissects a marital relationship through the trial of the wife after a fatal fall by her husband. - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      The Zone of Interest (2023) A perfect and flawless exercise in style to tell a story about a factory that kills human beings. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      May December (2023) Tense, funny, and profoundly sad, May December confirms Haynes' talent for melodrama and great female characters. - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) DiCaprio and Gladstone, always with a moving dignity, are at the center of some of the best sequences of a film that tirelessly navigates through their poisoned love. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 22, 2023
      The Eternal Daughter (2022) Wrapped in the beauty of a Gothic tale, among the deceitful wallpaper and heavy curtains, The Eternal Daughter speaks of the living and the dead, and of a mother who travels through that burrow, real or figurative... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 12, 2023
      The Crime Is Mine (2023) A joyous comedy with the air of vaudeville that flows like a spring from the hand of its cast... and a plot with all the possible ingredients: murders, evictions, lovers, failed actresses, trials, sorority and a dash of Me Too. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted May 05, 2023
      Scarlet (2022) ... While it doesn't reach the heights of Martin Eden, Scarlet irradiates comforting vitality. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2023
      Let the Dance Begin (2023) Seresesky plays up the distraction in the tone and twists of the script. Most of the time it works, though sometimes it misses... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Apr 06, 2023
      Matria (2023) Despite the ups and downs, the film is sustained thanks to the nerve of María Vázquez, who, like her character, gives her all. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Mar 24, 2023
      Sparta (2022) A rosary of social pathologies cultivated in the well of forgetfulness. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Mar 24, 2023
      Rimini (2022) A non-place out of season that Seidl portrays almost as a floating abstraction, seedy and dying, in the midst of a strange haze... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Mar 24, 2023
      The Blue Caftan (2022) Above all, The Blue Caftan is a story about a silent love triangle, an elegant melodrama that breathes love for its three protagonists, observing their lives through objects and rituals, dishes, fruits and golden threads. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Mar 10, 2023
      Saint Omer (2022) Despite it being a dry film, rigorous and at times it drains you, it's strength pulls you in... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Mar 08, 2023
      Mummies (2023) The protagonists, well defined with few strokes, are devised for children but still curiously appeal to a cross-generational audience, like when Nefer dances to the '80s Bangles hit Walk Like An Egyptian... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Feb 24, 2023
      Women Talking (2022) The film sometimes gets stuck in its overt denouncements... Yet Sarah Polley is brave and dares to take sides, turning her final decision into a utopian force capable of healing collective trauma. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Feb 17, 2023
      Rheingold (2022) Reminiscent of Guy Ritchie's recent work, Rheingold is a fast, high-octane ride that turns the underworld into a heart-attack-inducing parade of dapper testosterone. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2023
      Girlfriends and Girlfriends (2022) The ability to not take itself so seriously while still claiming its own place gives this debut feature personality. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Feb 03, 2023
      Knock at the Cabin (2023) Although it all seems like a simple child's game, the question of what we are willing to give up to save humanity prevails beyond the credits. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Feb 03, 2023
      Tár (2022) ... A film that dissects the lies of power and its caste through a character that's equally sordid and fascinating, whose complexity and fatalism owe everything to a unique and gifted actor. - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2023
      Nobody’s Hero (2022) ... A strange and particular comedy. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 21, 2023
      Decision to Leave (2022) A dazzling neo-noir capable of moving with enormous virtuosity by a visual language that appeals to the 21st century, ruled by its pirouettes and digital layers, without losing classic noir tradition and its eternal stereotypes... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 21, 2023
      Emily (2022) With all its clumsiness, Emily captivates by recreating a far from idyllic family environment, and because of Emma Mackey's performance... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 13, 2023
      Chile '76 (2022) 1976 is a portrait of a patriarchal and patronizing country that treats its women as if they were silly and crazy. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 13, 2023
      The Pale Blue Eye (2022) The movie promises more than it ultimately delivers. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 07, 2023
      R.M.N. (2022) An amalgamation that sometimes shows a fascinating and complex side and other times it turns into a convoluted speech without more. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Jan 03, 2023
      Casablanca Beats (2021) All in all, the best about Casablanca Beats is its earnest simplicity and belief in the story it tells. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Dec 27, 2022
      The Yellow Ceiling (2022) By giving a voice to the group of victims in her documentary, Coixet notably helps us understand the limits of consent and how a depraved predator operates within them to make them confusing. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Dec 19, 2022
      Manticore (2022) Sober and clean on the surface, uncomfortable and murky within, the film situates us behind the gaze of a being facing an infernal process. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Dec 12, 2022
      Cork (2022) A bristly story, slightly uneven for wanting to mix too many things, but carried from beginning to end by two class performances. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Dec 03, 2022
      Stories Not to Be Told (2022) In spite of its misfires, the film exemplifies the levity that characterizes good comedies; the character's emotional and sexual life is precipitated by embarrassing moments that define us far better than heroic ones. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Nov 28, 2022
      Close (2022) [A] captivating and sad film. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Nov 28, 2022
      Cliff Walkers (2021) Despite being confusing at times, it is a hard and violent film where the intimate stories of its four kamikazes blossom through action and bloodshed. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2022
      13 Exorcismos (2022) Barely dives into the most realistic possibilities to offer a poorly constructed fiction that leans on the fantastical and offers very little to the genre. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Nov 07, 2022
      Vasil (2022) The two protagonists Karra Elejalde and Ivan Barnev are the pillars of this film which finds its tone in small gestures... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Nov 04, 2022
      The Good Nurse (2022) Lindholm sows a suspense film built on looks and close-ups where Chastain is both fragile and precise... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 28, 2022
      L'immensità (2022) Crialese's family drama plays its best hand with the relationship between Andrea/Adri and their mother [Penélope Cruz], a woman trapped in a dead marriage whose dramatic crescendo does elevate the film. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 28, 2022
      The Five Devils (2022) The magical realism subtracts from the most important and best element of the film: the daughter's fear of losing her mother... and the pain and solitude she hides. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2022
      The Substitute (2022) A lost man finds with contagious emotion the eternal rewards of pedagogics. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 18, 2022
      Piggy (2022) A rural horror -- and comedy -- film about the loneliness of adolescence, and meat in its ample possibilities: social, psychological, culinary, erotic. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 14, 2022
      Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) A false promise of horror that's never fulfilled. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 07, 2022
      Both Sides of the Blade (2021) All in all, Denis pulls you into the tension and mystery of her drama and gifts us with a final, wise solution for any love dilemma, and just for that, the movie is worth a watch. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 03, 2022
      Argentina, 1985 (2022) Reduces the monster, the military, to a voiceless caricature. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Oct 03, 2022
      La Maternal (2022) It's hard not to fall in love with this movie: behind its enormous tactfulness, there's a sensitive and profound gaze towards a reality that often lends itself to triteness. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Sep 22, 2022
      Wild Flowers (2022) The lively and talented Anna Castillo imposes an ambiguity to the happy ending Rosales is trying to sell... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Sep 20, 2022
      Runner (2022) An oppressive and unbreathable environment, of few words, whose misery reflects a country adrift... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2022
      The Girl and the Spider (2021) The ensemble keeps the audience intrigued and guessing... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
      Read More | Posted Sep 16, 2022
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