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Jaime Pena
Jaime Pena's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
Movies reviews only
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Lost Country (2023) |
A film as correct as it is short... a manufactured film that leaves one with the feeling of having seen it a thousand times. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Little Girl Blue (2023) |
Cotillard, at times, prevents us from seeing the real Carole. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Pictures of Ghosts (2023) |
Pictures of Ghosts is a movie that speaks of the past, of that seminal education that helped create a filmmaker, but that also constitutes an act of resistance.[Full review in Spanish]
- Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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Lost in the Night (2023) |
Escalante cannot be denied that he does not hide anything, that he puts all the cards on the table and face up. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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When You Finish Saving the World (2022) |
Moves between drama and comedy, understanding its characters without ever taking them too seriously, but also never ridiculing them.
[Full review in Spanish]
- Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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Gull (2020) |
Gull unravels the moral conflict without falling into Manichaeism at any time, knowing how to end just at the moment that the most demagogic filmmakers would begin their films. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Aug 11, 2021
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Chupacabra (2020) |
Routine. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Nov 30, 2020
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La Última Primavera (2020) |
[The Gabarre-Mendozas'] performance is nothing more than a representation of their own life. And they do it with an astonishing naturalness. - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Nov 23, 2020
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Along the Sea (2020) |
An annoying conservatism lies underneath, a filmmaker who shows his calligraphic expertise but who does not want to risk unknown paths. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Nov 23, 2020
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Spagat (2020) |
Everything in Spagat is... bizarre and implausible. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 15, 2020
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I Never Cry (2020) |
As pleasant to watch as, I suspect, easy to forget. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 13, 2020
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Ane is Missing (2020) |
Too mechanical in some characters' definition. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 12, 2020
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Death Knell (2020) |
Rayo dominates the staging like very few other Spanish filmmakers; It remains for him to prove his worth as a storyteller. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2020
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Memory House (2020) |
[The movie] hides behind a mask, pretending to be what it isn't and remaining only skin deep. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 30, 2020
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Spring Blossom (2020) |
[Director Suzanne] Lindon uses dance to replace... those phrases that have been repeated thousands or millions of times in movies, novels and fotonovelas. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Limbo (2020) |
[Reveals] how little Sharrock really cares about his characters and their cultural circumstances. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2020
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Acuérdate de vivir (1953) |
[Director Roberto] Gavaldón grants his protagonist that deferred opportunity to live and the surprising thing is that we come to accept this ending as a happy ending. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 03, 2019
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The Sharks (2019) |
The Sharks cultivates the suggestions (very well) and, in a way, relinquishes a real dramatic plot. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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The Other One (1946) |
The fatalism and romanticism of [director Roberto] Gavaldón's film do not lag behind those of Hitchcock. A masterpiece. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Monos (2019) |
Its clumsiness is only comparable to its naivety. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Autumn Days (1963) |
Autumn Days is one of those strange achievements that conceals its modernity under the layer of a classic melodrama. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Untouched (1956) |
We long for the plot not to have focused on [Don Ignacio Santos] rather than that of Federico. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Chicuarotes (2019) |
García Bernal knows what he wants to tell, but he has no idea how. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Never gets to consummate narratively. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2019
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Our Mothers (2019) |
More of a simulacrum than a true film. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 24, 2019
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The Cordillera of Dreams (2019) |
[Patricio Guzmán's] new film represents the pure exhaustion of the formula. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 24, 2019
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[Director Roberto] Gavaldón plays with his characters like someone who plays cards, looking for the best possible combination. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 24, 2019
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The Golden Cockerel (1964) |
The lame rooster is one of the best animal performers one has ever seen on a screen. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 23, 2019
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The Moneychanger (2019) |
[The film's] tone borders on self-parody and its own characters prevent any degree of empathy from the public. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 23, 2019
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A White, White Day (2019) |
[Director Hlynur] Pálmason maintains a certain distance with his characters, favoring irony over any kind of empathy, almost as a manifestation of rugged landscapes and a changing climate. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 30, 2019
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The Halt (2019) |
The Halt's best moments are at the end, when it enters the streets and sided with those children who are the first propitiatory victims of the tyrants of the day and the environmental disasters. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 29, 2019
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019) |
The rhythm and the environment... provides an air of verisimilitude close to the documentary. The tone prevails throughout the film... stripped of any kind of visual rhetoric. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 29, 2019
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Heroes Don't Die (2019) |
Works better theoretically than dramatically. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 23, 2019
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The Climb (2019) |
[Director Michael Angelo] Covini's film is a rare sight in the current panorama of American independent cinema. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 23, 2019
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Alice and the Mayor (2019) |
[Director] Nicolas Parasier has undoubted talent for comedy. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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The Lighthouse (2019) |
Dialogues... respond both to a deeply literary character and to an old English whose purpose is not so much the dramatic development as the brilliance of its actors [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 22, 2019
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Litigante (2019) |
[An] intelligent chronicle of a few months in the life of Silvia, a Colombian lawyer. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 17, 2019
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Us (2019) |
Perhaps [Us'] greatest virtue derives from its ending. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 10, 2019
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Buy Me a Gun (2018) |
Buy Me a Gun is one of the most important Latin American films of the year, perhaps also in recent years. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Jan 18, 2019
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Our Time (2018) |
[Our Time] has a propensity to place the camera in unusual places... that at least gives us a rest from the family psychodrama. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Oct 04, 2018
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The Snatch Thief (2018) |
What in other Latin American films is a natural inclination for sordidness and violence is turned around in [director Agustín] Toscano's film, in a certain sense taking advantage of the spectator's prejudices. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 28, 2018
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A Twelve-Year Night (La noche de 12 años) (2018) |
Suspense is not a dramatic alternative that [director Álvaro] Brechner manages. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 27, 2018
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Los silencios (2018) |
The question we can ask ourselves is why or what for, since in reality the only interest of Los Silencios lies in its final part. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 27, 2018
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Florianópolis Dream (Sueño Florianópolis) (2018) |
Florianópolis Dream is not just a great movie, but also a breath of fresh air. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 27, 2018
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Julia and the Fox (Julia y el zorro) (2018) |
Everything resembles a succession of well-filmed and acted moments, which responds more to the internal logic of this type of film... than to a dramatic need motivated by the starting point. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 26, 2018
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Familia sumergida (2018) |
The extraordinary Hélène Louvart's camera... turns the atmosphere of that house into something unbreathable and claustrophobic. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2018
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The Heiresses (2018) |
Aside from some great performances,The Heiresses transpires little more than a calligraphic application of a formula. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2018
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Rust (2018) |
For [director Aly] Muritiba it is less important to find the culprit than to get him to assume the implications of his actions. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 24, 2018
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Marilyn (2018) |
Like Marcos himself, the film is much freer when he dances with Marilyn and sets aside the will to denounce. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted Sep 24, 2018
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The Ornithologist (2016) |
In any case... it should not be ruled out that arbitrariness is the ultimate engine of this film. [Full review in Spanish] - Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
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| Posted May 24, 2018
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