Javier Porta Fouz
Javier Porta Fouz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
La Nación (Argentina)
Movies reviews only
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The Guest (2018) |
[The Guest] finds humor in human contradictions, and even generates some empathy that may produce real tears. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 12, 2020
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It's dull, inane, and lacks edge. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2020
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Sweetheart (2019) |
A film where the characters, dialogue, and petty conflicts flow. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 28, 2020
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Burning Night (2019) |
Burning Night is seen, heard, and acted like few other Latin American movies. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 26, 2020
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Love at Second Sight (1998) |
The story is told with great speed and even greater clumsiness. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Apr 30, 2020
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Judy (2019) |
The musical, cinematic, and human reverberations of the film connect us to the art of one of the greatest icons that emerged from the legendary Hollywood. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 06, 2020
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Sadako (2019) |
This sad, solitary, and final chapter is marked by fatigue and apathy. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 16, 2020
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The Best Is Yet to Come (2019) |
It succeeds in its comedic confusion and possibilities of points of view and emotional empathy. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 10, 2020
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Light of My Life (2019) |
Light of My Life is a movie that shows a conscientious and earnest work, a construction without fissures. It also lacks singularity though. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Dec 12, 2019
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With its lack of creativity, this movie devalues Italian cinema and its best traditions. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 14, 2019
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Doctor Sleep (2019) |
Doctor Sleep is an anemic story with a series format. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 07, 2019
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A Regular Woman (2019) |
The movie is in search of a clearer and more direct impact. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Oct 17, 2019
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Joker (2019) |
[The film] is made with pain and glory and true passion. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2019
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Woman at War (2018) |
For Benedikt Erlingsson more is more, and so he tries paths that are sometimes detours, but he mainly seduces with effective and at times convincing and vital stories. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 26, 2019
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Varda by Agnès (2019) |
This autobiographical documentary... is a grand journey through her work. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 19, 2019
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Yesterday (2019) |
A hollow, dull, and opportunistic movie that renounces all logic. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 12, 2019
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High Life (2018) |
High Life is impressive and moving. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 05, 2019
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A Faithful Man (2018) |
A Faithful Man is a vital offer. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 05, 2019
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Greta (2018) |
After the violence and suspense have been strained, the movie advances with elegance, but accumulates some blunders towards the end, just like the 90s thrillers that we miss a little today. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 29, 2019
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) |
The series of "recreated" facts are expounded with apathy, opportunism, and a strict absence of suspense. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 29, 2019
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Santiago, Italia (2018) |
Nanni Moretti narrates and listens, and he narrates and thinks, and he narrates and moves us with some of the most noble and enduring weapons of cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 15, 2019
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Dogman (2018) |
The story is framed, staged, illuminated, and acted with that kind of esthetic conviction, narrative force, and passion for intensity that has allowed Italian cinema to fascinate so many times throughout history. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Red Joan (2018) |
What one perceives in this movie is a particular passivity and several errors in the development of suspense, melodrama, and almost any appeal related to the spy film, or even the biographical film. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 25, 2019
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Mid90s (2018) |
Mid90s is one of those debuts that signals the beginning of a great directing career for Jonah Hill. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 19, 2019
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Child's Play (2019) |
Child's Play takes what is convenient to it from the past, but creates something different. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 19, 2019
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Real Love (C'est ça l'amour) (2018) |
It reminds us of a true cinema, honest, and probably old fashioned. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2019
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Hotel Mumbai (2018) |
The heart of Hotel Mumbai is with its staff, those professional and proud workers that decided to be heroes. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2019
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Quiet Comes the Dawn (Rassvet) (2019) |
Extreme audiovisual illiteracy and it's not even laughable. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 17, 2019
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Mia and the White Lion (2018) |
The film reminds us of some of the great dimensions of cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 10, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019) |
Banderas accomplishes an extremely difficult performance. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 10, 2019
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Ma (2019) |
Fortunately, Ma is a strange thriller (in a good way) throughout most of its 99 minutes. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 03, 2019
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Leto (2018) |
Leto is a film about those interstices in which oppressive obtuse was fought something like dreams that the film reproduces with visual and musical trances loaded with audacity and charm. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 27, 2019
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The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) |
The film lacks sophistication, but it has a very assertive narrative that works. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 20, 2019
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A Dog's Journey (2019) |
We are facing a film of emotional crassness. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 20, 2019
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) |
There is a lack of tension and intelligibility. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 12, 2019
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Ben Is Back (2018) |
It has a "movie of the week" flavor to it. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 12, 2019
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Belmonte (2018) |
Veiroj shows that his cinema has personality, nothing less: security and stylistic aplomb to evidence doubts, narrative fluidity to develop characters in the midst of obstacles and impossibilities. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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Serenity (2019) |
Serenity could have been a celebration of the genre, but instead it just tries to pull off twist after twist. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2019
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King of Thieves (2018) |
Michael Cane is precise, convincing and the best part of this film. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2019
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A Wedding (2016) |
A Wedding successfully develops its thematic nucleus in the comparisons between Zahira's family and her friend Aurore's. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 25, 2019
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Shoplifters (2018) |
Koreeda especially knows how to film the child's clear cut point of view about the outside world. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 24, 2019
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) |
A harmless coating that simulates telling a lot, but actually narrate very little. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 10, 2019
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The Mule (2018) |
Eastwood, once again, offers the spectators of his indelible art the emotions of cinema in the form of cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 03, 2019
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3 Faces (2018) |
This film does not try to eliminate any harshness and harnesses the art of knowing when to show and when not to. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 02, 2019
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) |
It accumulates simplistic conceptual repetitions, other grossly emotional ones, unworthy music and some super impressions that, again, make us doubt about who the real Van Sant is. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Dec 20, 2018
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The Midnight Man (2016) |
There is a lot of blood spilled, negotiated and sprinkled that does not at any time raise the blood of this tedious narrative. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 30, 2018
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Black Tide (2018) |
Cassel is at risk of intensity all the time, but most of the time he remains on the side of conviction - perhaps moving - and confidence in the traditions of the genre. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 27, 2018
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Malicious (2018) |
As the film ends, it's clear that a cohesive narrative was never created to help peak interest in anything in the film. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 27, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
Blackkklansma is one of those films that effectively channel energy, exhibit conviction and even excess in some passages and Lee presents this story in an intensely seductive manner. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 15, 2018
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Calabria (2016) |
Their conversations, reflections and especially their songs are the pillars of this film that exhibits a modest wisdom to observe vital and uprooted paths and endow them, at times, with a certain placid poetry. [Full Review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 08, 2018
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