Jorge (JJ) Negrete
Jorge (JJ) Negrete's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Butaca Ancha
Cine Premiere
Movies reviews only
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Holy Spider (2022) |
In purely cinematographic terms, there is nothing to discuss or reflect on. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Dug Dug (2021) |
Without complicating things, Pareek exposes the contagious and rapid expansion of religious devotion and the imposition of religious precepts to the inexplicable [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
To say that Campion's work is bad would be unfair and impartial, it is more apt to say that it is a mediocre film dressed as one of those larger than life films. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Aloners (2021) |
Aloners is a film that manages to retain a certain ambiguity without leaving any loose ends, a genuine achievement in an environment where most films only seek certainties. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021) |
There is not much to say about this documentary, structured and assembled with the most conventional mold. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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The Guilty (2021) |
Despite being filmed with utter laziness, The Guilty raises an important question: are famous, Anglo-Saxon and beautiful faces enough to enhance subtitled films? [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Europa (2021) |
What is the purpose of a film like Europe? It is evident that his interest is not cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 15, 2021
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Red Rocket (2021) |
Red Rocket is the porn parody of the American Dream. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 15, 2021
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Titane (2021) |
Committed to a reckless point with herself, Ducournau's film is in every way a true monster: her appearance is deeply intimidating and hostile... so ruthless that it can only come from the coldness of a machine. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 14, 2021
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Medusa (2021) |
Generous in synthesizer music, tense suspense scenes and precise in creating an ideal atmosphere to attack religious fundamentalism in Brazil. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 14, 2021
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Bergman Island (2021) |
On Bergman's Island, filmmaker and critic Mia Hansen-Løve does not test Ingmar Bergman's honor or try to question his legacy, but uses it in an ironic sense and then dismisses it. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 14, 2021
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Drive My Car (2021) |
Thinking about Drive My Car is necessarily reaching the gaze that does not individualize, that does not fragment, but unifies, that embraces a sensation more than an image. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 14, 2021
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Flag Day (2021) |
If there is one redeemable trait in Sean Penn's outrageous vanity and rampant self-centeredness in his most recent directorial work, it is that they are as honest as possible at the very least. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 13, 2021
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Benedetta (2021) |
Although he does not totally deny his affiliation with the nunsploitation , those dildos would make Buñuel himself blush, his main interest lies in questioning and satirizing the Church. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 10, 2021
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Cow (2021) |
The intention of the filmmaker is paid to environmental awareness using a narratively predatory device: does cinema justify the means? Maybe Arnold thinks so. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 09, 2021
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The Souvenir Part II (2021) |
The greatest virtue of the second part lies in the presence of this solemn irony, adding a series of nuances absent in Hogg's previous feature film that are essential for the new one to be just as forceful. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 09, 2021
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Ahed's Knee (2021) |
With a filmmaker like Nadav Lapid it's very easy to confuse irony with sincerity, considering that, after all, the film is financed by the same State that he criticizes. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jul 08, 2021
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A Glitch in the Matrix (2020) |
Despite the fact that the documentary is not without interest, it ends up becoming tired and repetitive, finding it difficult to go deeper without losing its viewers with ideas of greater density. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) |
The excess of Prisoners of the Ghostland has the discipline of an experienced filmmaker like Sono, paradoxically it is not perceived as saturated despite its delusional plot and structure. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Together Together (2021) |
Helms' perplexity and bewilderment are so genuine that they seem close, while Harrison's initial apathy dissolves without compromising her irony, sarcasm, and awkwardness. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Mayday (2021) |
The potential of the plot is quickly dissolved by the dispersion present in the film, manifested mainly in irregular and disjointed sequences. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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The Blazing World (2021) |
There's a virtue buried underneath the overwhelming artificiality, excessive cosmetic, and narrative laziness in young Texan director Carlson Young's debut: conviction. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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The Cursed (2021) |
It is a film that works with such premeditated efficiency that it ends up becoming a fiction that shows the mechanization with which it was made. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (2021) |
Although the point of interest is the treatment of the pandemic, the truth is that it is only one of the several elements present and not the one that gives it purpose. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Mass (2021) |
Fortunately, the film does not pretend to be a direct pamphlet on the use of weapons or the importance of mental health in the adolescent population: its main interest lies in offering space for grief. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Users (2021) |
The observations of the filmmaker herself end up making her intentions very diffuse and her ambition something deeply vacuous and, ironically, inconsequential. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Searchers (2021) |
Searching aims to point out that, despite technological advances, we still don't know how to handle something as simple as asking someone else for anything. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Passing (2021) |
Passing cuts across racial tensions in a very superficial, almost uninteresting way, exposing the way a frustrated desire manifests itself in a world so painstakingly constructed yet terribly fragile. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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In The Earth (2021) |
Wheatley returns to the themes and style that gave him enormous projection at the beginning of his career, particularly for the bloody Kill List. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021) |
The documentary presents everything that happened after the successful premiere of Death in Venice and the way in which BJörn Andresen became a true fetish. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Prime Time (2021) |
Prime Time does not make judgments about the motives or intentions of its protagonist, perhaps because it doesn't know them, but it takes time to know them. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Feb 04, 2021
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Knocking (2021) |
There is an interplay between the supernatural and the mental that, while perhaps not particularly novel or revealing, updates Bergman's concerns for contemporary audiences. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 31, 2021
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How It Ends (2021) |
Close to the pilot of a television series that will hardly see a full season. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 31, 2021
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Strawberry Mansion (2021) |
No cinema can supports what happens in Strawberry Mansion, yet it is full of images and concepts that are flaunted as "cinematic." - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 31, 2021
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Cryptozoo (2021) |
More concerned with stuffing history than constructing it, Shaw's film focuses on creating a visual overstimulation with the discursive complexity of Avatar. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 31, 2021
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Censor (2021) |
Bailey-Bond avoids making a deliberate "homage" and puts her effort in defending genre cinema, relying particularly on the idea that our psyche is the most powerful censor. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 31, 2021
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Night of the Kings (2020) |
Beyond the awards that will eventually overshadow the more subtle virtues of the film, this is a vindication of the power that a person can have surrounded by those who hear a narration. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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Violation (2020) |
The construction of the story is based on two tension points: aggression and retribution, however, the way in which Mancinelli and Sims-Fewer structure this tension is not balanced. - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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Uncut Gems (2019) |
Adam Sandler shows his versatility delivering a brilliant performance. [Full Review in Spanish] - Cine Premiere
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| Posted Jan 31, 2020
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One, Two, Three (1961) |
Wilder turns both the capitalist and communist systems into caricatures and isn't sparse. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Oct 08, 2019
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Joker (2019) |
Joker is not challenging, daring or risky in the least, on the contrary, Phillips adheres with discipline to the rules of the now old New Hollywood and proves to be a docile student, not a visionary. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Oct 06, 2019
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Marriage Story (2019) |
Marriage Story culminates beautifully with an act so humble, gentle and loving that it disperses bitter memories and leaves us with the warmth that only the feeling of being alive can leave. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 16, 2019
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About Endlessness (2019) |
Andersson appropriately titles this film about a journey into infinity. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 10, 2019
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Lina From Lima (2019) |
Despite the fact that the film struggles to add value to its vignettes, you can expect to see more from María Paz Rodríguez. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 10, 2019
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Saturday Fiction (2019) |
A film as frustrating as putting a broken mirror back together. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 10, 2019
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The Painted Bird (2019) |
To call it sadistic would be to give the film some intellectual dignity it lacks. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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La llorona (2019) |
In La Llorona, the horror derives from what's described rather than what is seen. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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The Emperor Waltz (1948) |
A pastel comedy that presents two dangers disguised as virtue: that of conservatism and that of progress. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Aug 14, 2019
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Non-Fiction (2018) |
Non-Fiction is a movie brimming with ideas stated by the fictional characters about real problems. To believe what they discuss takes a leap of faith. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Aug 09, 2019
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Bachelorettes (Solteras) (2018) |
Bachelorettes uses the failure of its characters as a comic element, but the most obvious failure is the belief that a mere anecdote can push the film to the quoted laughs or the identification of the audience. [Full Review in Spanish] - Butaca Ancha
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| Posted Jun 19, 2019
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