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)
Movies reviews only
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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)
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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Sparta (2022) |
A rosary of social pathologies cultivated in the well of forgetfulness. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Mar 10, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Nobody’s Hero (2022) |
... A strange and particular comedy. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jan 21, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Jan 21, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022) |
The movie promises more than it ultimately delivers. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jan 07, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Jan 03, 2023
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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)
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Dec 19, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Dec 03, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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Close (2022) |
[A] captivating and sad film. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Nov 07, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Oct 28, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Oct 28, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The Substitute (2022) |
A lost man finds with contagious emotion the eternal rewards of pedagogics. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) |
A false promise of horror that's never fulfilled. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2022
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Argentina, 1985 (2022) |
Reduces the monster, the military, to a voiceless caricature. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Sep 22, 2022
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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)
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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Runner (2022) |
An oppressive and unbreathable environment, of few words, whose misery reflects a country adrift... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Sep 19, 2022
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The Girl and the Spider (2021) |
The ensemble keeps the audience intrigued and guessing... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Sep 16, 2022
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Pinocchio (2022) |
... A remake that is as unnecessary as it is opportunistic. - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Sep 09, 2022
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Orphan: First Kill (2022) |
The script is a disaster that, only in the middle of the film, manages to be a little more attractive with a 'the hunter who is hunted' plot twist. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Sep 09, 2022
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) |
A tennis match of gestures and talks, and if it reaches fruition is because the performers escalate towards similar heights: he, with forced and yapping gallantry; her, with the dramatic flair of wearing her emotions on her skin. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
An out-of-the-box scary movie that deconstructs the summer blockbuster with its daring cross-genre and referential cinema. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 19, 2022
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Voy a Pasármelo Bien (2022) |
A film about a friendship surrounding some cassettes and a Walkman capable of affecting even those of us who never bought a David Summers album. - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Vortex (2021) |
The absolute lack of compassion towards the characters is the kind of affront that jeopardizes what is probably Gaspar Noé's best film. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 29, 2022
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Men (2022) |
We already know toxic masculinity produces monsters, but its clichés can spawn. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 22, 2022
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Persuasion (2022) |
Persuasion vehemently seeks the spectator's complicity, but that complicity lacks substance and, in the end, Dakota Johnson ends up talking to herself. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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In Front of Your Face (2021) |
The subtle game of seduction and inebriation is a sort of hyperrealism that's way more poetic than exact. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Benediction (2021) |
A subtle period film that reconstructs the idylls of a man sequestered by bitterness, a wounded soul without solace... [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021) |
A love story between mother and daughter, and between multi-generational women, who unite in solidarity in the face of systematic abuse. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Mom Is a Match (2022) |
Hilarious at times, though inconsistent, this comedy favors women characters over male ones, an imbalance that works within the plot of the movie but also hinders it. [Full review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 05, 2022
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