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Jaime Grijalba

Jaime Grijalba's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Assassin (2015) 80% EDIT “One could think of The Assassin as a cinephile’s film, as it contains a visual language that requires a trained eye, but nonetheless, with the still attributes of the acting and the overall length of the shots, the film is still highly entertaining...” – Vague Visages Dec 4, 2023 Full Review Dheepan (2015) 88% EDIT “Audiard decides to have an action climax ala The Terminator rather than something more in line with the film as a whole. Unfortunately, once the climax ends, we are given one of the most beautifully-shot bad endings in the history of cinema.” – Vague Visages Dec 4, 2023 Full Review The Pearl Button (2015) 93% EDIT “A master working in movies that are clearly his own, Guzmán is still putting out the best films of his career.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review La maison Nucingen (Nucingen House) (2008) EDIT “Among the late director’s best films. A surprise.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Naomi Campbel (2013) EDIT “A film about mixed identities, the hardships of being what you want to be and being content with what you are.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review La Once (2014) EDIT “They share stories, love letters and nostalgia, which turns this documentary into a portrait of a generation that’s more than meets the eye.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Natural Disasters (2014) EDIT “The students are both for and against this revolution, but they hide more than what they tell. A highly political and intelligent film but still funny.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Crónica de un comité (2014) EDIT “The best moments come from the “unofficial” cameras, where the contradiction of the committee lies.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Voice Over (2014) EDIT “A film about the futility of repetition and the un-avoidance of it. A family breaks apart as the father tries to live a new life out of his house, and the mother tries to start a career in voice over work. Ridiculous, funny and exasperating.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review The Club (2015) 88% EDIT “Powerful beyond my reservations.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review The Memory of Water (2015) EDIT “The production has one of the most beautiful snow scenes that I’ve seen, and it affected me in ways that I still can’t understand.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Beyond My Grandfather Allende (2015) EDIT “It’s revealing and emotionally turning when it gets closer to the forbidden stories and the secret lovers of the beloved figure.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review The Karadima Forest (2015) 80% EDIT “It could fool anyone with its "grabbed from the headlines" plot, but this is an unassuming film about power and the idea behind the impossibility to say "no" to a respected figure.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review The Film Critic (2013) 45% EDIT “It’s a story about a film critic who finds love in the corniest way and resonated with me beyond its dumb exterior and forgiveness towards rom coms.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Aquí estoy, aquí no (2012) EDIT “A weird riff on Hitchcock’s Vertigo, a journalist investigates the life of the female singer of an 80s Chilean rock band...but in the end, it’s mostly a movie about the rock and underground culture of the time.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Nasty Baby (2015) 68% EDIT “Ridiculous, outrageous and weirdly disjointed but still fascinating to watch, this movie derails in its last 20 minutes, but it’s still a fascinating experiment.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Winter Light (2015) EDIT “At almost five hours, it’s mostly an exercise in the superfluous, as well as a mute work about how the death of a writer affects his friends. Even at its length, it works most of the time.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Surire (2015) EDIT “A feat in terms of sound design, but it lacks a pull to justify its 90-minute length.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Land and Shade (2015) 88% EDIT “It aims for a social statement that turns sour due to the lack of a sensation of true slow cinema. It’s more of a statement about misery.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Genoveva (2014) EDIT “Strong but lacks universal appeal.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Chicago Boys (2015) EDIT “In the end, it lacks a more powerful condemnation of this fearful troupe.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Redeemer (2014) 40% EDIT “This is a standard action/martial arts film with some good choreography and cinematography, surrounded and packaged in a barebones weak storyline. Still, it’s better than more ambitious fiction films.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Lusers, los amigos no se eligen (2015) EDIT “It’s silly and somewhat shoddy, but the film has some real heartfelt and laugh-out-loud moments that make it somewhat tolerable.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review I Am Not Lorena (2014) EDIT “A young woman is being confused for another that has a huge debt, and we slowly start to come into a state of mind of constant confusion and agitation. It all breaks down when the film wants to “solve” the mystery of what had happened.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Allende en su laberinto (2014) EDIT “Directed by one of the most important names in the history of Chilean cinema, this effort to tell the last hours of Salvador Allende is weak for its shoddy special effects and acting. The intentions are good though.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2023 Full Review
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