Juan Pablo Russo
Juan Pablo Russo's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
EscribiendoCine
Argentina
Movies reviews only
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Still Time (2022) |
Despite its televisive format, Still Time is simple and doesn't extend its welcome, keeping in line with its principal message: time is valuable. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023) |
... Offers an accurate and illuminating view of the ethical and moral challenges facing the porn industry today. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Sky High (2020) |
[Sky High] hardly breathes the sweat and perfume that current movies are looking to pay tribute to. However, it is worth noting that the film is entertaining. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Chile '76 (2022) |
... A human, historical, and social portrait that establishes Manuela Martelli as one of the most promising and committed filmmakers of this last year. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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La Pietà (2022) |
For better or worse, this unclassifiable piece results in a work defies any expectations. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) |
Waiting for the Barbarians calls forth the spirit of '60s and '70s political cinema, when the seventh art began to criticize imperialism. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Charcoal (2022) |
With a sarcastic look that digs deep into a society affected by violence and extreme fanaticism that condones barbarity, the series of extreme (and absurd) situations exposed work as a metaphor for how the brutal became habitual. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Robe of Gems (2022) |
Robe of Gems mixes a documentary tone with dramatic fiction, always placing form over plot, and it's a clear example of how imagery and sound can tell a compelling story while the dialogue complements the narrative. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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All the Places (2023) |
... the film entertains without any kind of pretensions, and it does so through a simple narrative that combines comedy and drama elements in a conventional but effective family road movie. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Sharper (2023) |
... a twisted, sinister, and unpredictable psychological thriller that surprises us at every turn with its wit and intelligence. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Your Place or Mine (2023) |
Your Place or Mine is honest and doesn't use absurd games or fatuous twists to hide its nature: mere entertainment that's fun, light, and crystalline. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 11, 2023
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) |
Like in a musical, I Wanna Dance with Somebody links triumphs and failures to songs, yet it doesn't amount to more than a superficial and decaffeinated story about the winner of 411 awards... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Infiesto (2023) |
A by-the-book detective thriller, Infiesto pays homage to Nic Pizzolatto's mythical series' True Detective and succeeds in entertaining and putting the viewer on the edge of their seat... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 06, 2023
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You People (2023) |
Its narrative structure, cemented on themes incapable of being supported by its weak skeleton, results in a succession of clichés and frivolous racial animosities with nothing new to say. Luckily, it has a great cast... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Feb 04, 2023
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Phantom Project (2022) |
Phantom Project is many things at once and could've turned into chaos, though paradoxically, it works well thanks to a filmmaker that never loses his compass, keeping the film from falling off the rails. [Full review in Spanish]
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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The Furies (2019) |
As violent as it is beautiful... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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Shotgun Wedding (2023) |
A romantic and action film with few surprises, many familiarities, and a fairly predictable outcome. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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The World After Us (2021) |
Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas avoids melodramatic excess and builds [the story] with enormous delicacy and an unusual sensitivity to capture everyday life... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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She Said (2022) |
Schrader doesn't frame women in a spiral of violence they can't escape, instead, she gives them perspective through collective reflection and, unlike Jay Roach [Bombshell], abstains from sensationalism. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 18, 2023
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La Tara (2022) |
An original road movie that wanders between Argentina and Spain, between past and present, between fiction and documentary. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 17, 2023
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The Song of Names (2019) |
... A film adaptation that takes the scenes from the pages of the book, but loses their emotion. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 10, 2023
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The Parties (2022) |
... A biting fictional essay on toxic relationships. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 09, 2023
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The Kings of the World (2022) |
An honest film, in which the most brutal reality mixes with a more lyrical surrealism to talk about hope, friendship, and love. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 05, 2023
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) |
A terrible fiasco that can't rise from beneath even with the female empowerment that it seeks to reflect. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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7 Women and a Murder (2021) |
Without a doubt, the beating heart of this adaptation is the female ensemble that sets out to embrace their sorority, a welcome modern update from the original. As far as everything else, it's best to watch Ozon's. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Jan 03, 2023
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Tomorrow is Today (2022) |
... doesn't work and results in superficial entertainment devoid of any substance. [Full review in Spanish]
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| Posted Dec 28, 2022
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Paula (2022) |
The young filmmaker [Florencia Wehbe] avoids being saccharine and delivers a social portrait without moralizations that's realistic, and at times joyful and luminous... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 23, 2022
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France (2021) |
France, the protagonist and film, is anarchic, unstructured, unstable, sometimes hilarious, sometimes terribly banal, and other times intelligent. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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House of Gucci (2021) |
[Ridley] Scott resorts to a format closer to a soap opera by using and abusing a series of gimmicks... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 19, 2022
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Pornomelancholia (2022) |
... Offers an honest and intelligent look on the discontent of having everything to have nothing. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 15, 2022
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Burning Patience (2022) |
Aims to be a romantic drama with political undertones, but gets lost in its limited pretentiousness and ends up being forgettable... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 15, 2022
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The Uninvited (2022) |
A smart comedy that eschews pretentiousness and has the imprint of an original filmmaker. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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God's Crooked Lines (2022) |
Manipulative yet elegant... Entertaining yet short of reaching great film status. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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The Book of Delights (2020) |
An erotic drama about a cold game of seduction that says more with what it withholds. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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A Man of Action (2022) |
Despite being agile and dynamic, the film is vague and superficial. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Aftersun (2022) |
A notable study about broken dreams and sundered futures. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Matadero (2022) |
The narrative is nourished by a kind of metafiction that helps Fillol transfer the past contradictions of a country in a political parable into the present. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 29, 2022
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A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) |
A film that considers its condition, limits, and limitations as a privileged standpoint for reflection and thought. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 29, 2022
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Tina (2021) |
This new and fascinating portrait of Tina Turner gathers her artistic trajectory without exclusively centering on the sensationalist aspects... [Full refview in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 22, 2022
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El Planeta (2021) |
Reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch and Noah Baumbach's cinema... Ulmann builds two worlds, one real and one isn't, and employs experimentation, modernity, and a certain cinematic disobedience that we haven't seen in a long time. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 16, 2022
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Herbaria (2022) |
A hypnotic and passionate treatment about film and botanical preservation. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 11, 2022
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About the Clouds (2022) |
A character compendium filmed by Aparicio without a shred of artifice or Manichaeism. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Alcarràs (2022) |
A story with rays of immense beauty. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 01, 2022
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Tenéis Que Venir a Verla (2022) |
A simple story comprised of minimal situations, yet they're recognizable, and the kind of situations that often surprise you and shortly afterward they vanish... [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Nov 01, 2022
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La Provisoria (2022) |
Filmed with different vintage lenses to reflect a hippie-era aesthetic, La Provisoria doesn't focus on the lack of housing, but quite the opposite... it finds beauty in the green spaces between cement monsters. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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The Substitute (2022) |
An honest film that strips the layers in order to find the truth with integrity, incapable of judging its characters. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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Voy a Pasármelo Bien (2022) |
Promises a good time at the tune of a compact story that's well-developed, stays on course, and of course, is accompanied by Hombres G's songs. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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Vortex (2021) |
The opening song talks about the ephemerality of life and from there, a story that is as suffocating as it is Lynchian is born. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Oct 17, 2022
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Rainbow (2022) |
Rainbow provokes an unusual indifference and a question, "why?" - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Little Lies (2022) |
At times, the film tries to survive the incoming shipwreck, but the rudder turns are fruitless, and the film drowns in a sea of false movements and wrong decisions. [Full review in Spanish] - EscribiendoCine
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| Posted Oct 03, 2022
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