
Marcelo Stiletano
Movies reviews only
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About My Father (2023) |
Despite the ups and downs, Maniscalco proves to be a lucid observer of small details that define the characters with sufficient precision. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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The Boogeyman (2023) |
As a modest consolation, there are a few genuine scares at the end. But all in all, they don't redeem the overall mediocrity of the film. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
The worst and saddest thing about this new The Little Mermaid is to watch a purely mechanical and dead-eyed Sebastian conducting a colorful coral and marine fauna fête to the catchy and wonderful "Under The Sea." [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
Beyond guts, muscle, and big action sequences that always make sense, Fast X's got a heart. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
A tireless creator of visual worlds full of ideas and revelations, some of them extraordinary, Gunn delivers an ending that captures the breath, fun and vital energy of the first two adventures... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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To Catch a Killer (2023) |
With the pulse of an exemplary storyteller and skilful creator of tension-filled atmospheres, Szifron creates a world where easy, superficial, and malleable solutions can only push us to make irreparable mistakes. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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Let Him Go (2020) |
There is no sentimentality or manipulation about the Blackledges' quest to rescue their grandchild and return them home where they belong. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Apr 26, 2023
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Renfield (2023) |
Once again, Cage shows us that he perfectly understands what charisma means in cinema. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Air (2023) |
The true protagonists dance around Jordan in this thoroughly enjoyable story that's enriched by a magnificent period design and an irresistible score full of immortal '80s hits. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Apr 06, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
Creed III lacks a convincing ending and above all, some kind of explanation on why Stallone is missing... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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Mummies (2023) |
With a genuine sense of humor, an animation design that has nothing to envy to the best of the genre made in Hollywood, and a somewhat silly plot, the crew headed by García Galocha has a lot of fun with anachronisms... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
... this new adventure isn't as fun as the previous ones, it works only as by-the-book entertainment with more muscles than brains. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) |
I Want to Dance With Somebody exposes its protagonist's descent, but never really asks what led to this unexpected and abrupt end... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
Of all the shots that fire off in this film, the most lethal one is the one the director shoots at his own foot. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
From his [Spielperg's] wise hands comes a story that's as enjoyable as it's entertaining and filled with poetry each time he returns to his safe heaven: his family. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
The cast's commitment is extraordinary, especially Robbie's, a true force of nature, and Pitt's, to whom Chazelle devotes his most indulgent gaze. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
The story moves through predictable twists and fool-proofed formulas, but as it progresses and intentions become clear, it becomes more interesting... [Full review in Spanish]
- La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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Violent Night (2022) |
The most extreme representation of Macaulay Culkin's tricks against the intruders in Home Alone. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Strange World (2022) |
The visually dazzling journey is reminiscent of older films -- as if someone wanted to recuperate them and build a retrospective of almost impossible and legendary adventures. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2022
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The Wonder (2022) |
Behind the dialogue lies one of the favorite themes of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio: exacerbated, almost mystical, religious devotion, imposed as a mandate for everyday life and a potion capable of replacing the truth. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
When interest begins to wane, everything is left in the magnificent hands of Fiennes and Taylor-Joy, the only ones who stay above the sea of over-the-top impostures and an initially irresistible menu that turns bland... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
Energetic and massively vibrant and humane, the film focuses on just one world, and for once, doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest of the MCU. And it works all the better for it. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Little Joe (2019) |
Hausner isn't Cronenberg: Instead of committing to the human impact of a perturbing situation, she chooses an aseptic frame, convinced that it's possible to impose the coordinates of a scientific experiment onto a film. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Nov 03, 2022
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) |
The story suggests sketches and strokes that could lead to interesting places, yet it never decides on following any... things get better once Bardem comes along. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
Evil ceases to belong to just one person and expands into an idea... In this sense, Halloween Ends brings us more than once close to one of Carpenter's masterpieces, Christine (1983). - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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The Woman King (2022) |
Echoes of Gladiator and Braveheart resonate here almost deliberately, The Woman King surrenders to narrative conventions and clichés, seeking the safest paths... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Ordinary Happiness (2019) |
Nothing better than cinema to tell an entire life story from a small sampling of events and episodes that are seemingly irrelevant. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 26, 2022
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Barbarian (2022) |
Guarantees a few genuine scares while challenging the formula. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Fall (2022) |
There's a bit of screenplay trickery and some telenovela-worthy twists, but the team behind Fall... builds a sense of depth, emptiness, and solitude as if special effects had never been invented, delivering a feat. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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The Princess (2022) |
The true chronicle of a tragedy, poignant. - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 30, 2022
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) |
As attractive, captivating, and pendulous as its subject, Roadrunner immerses itself in turbulent waters. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
Peele arbitrarily intermixes obsessions, questions, influences and his thesis, so much that we lose our compass and get lost in understanding the eye of the story. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 25, 2022
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) |
Predictable and suffocating in an enclosed setting where two protagonists, face to face, run their lines towards an inexorable, calculated exercise of reciprocal catharsis. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Aug 04, 2022
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DC League of Super-Pets (2022) |
Returns nobleness, character, dynamism, and grace to a group of heroes that were solemn and rigid in the flesh. In turn, here, they admit their mistakes and are capable of laughing at themselves... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 28, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
Even though Luhrmann seems really interested in all the existencial details, they end up sacrificed on the altar of pretension. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 14, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
... Incredibly fun, the best Marvel film since Ant Man and the Wasp (2019), shows magnificently Foster's empowerment journey without the need to cram in an obvious message. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) |
The Minions never cease to please and entertain, but some of the stories are too big on them. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Dog (2022) |
Appearances can be deceiving. Dog, a wild journey, goes beyond the classic story of a protagonist and their best friend sharing emotional, funny, inspiring and life-changing adventures. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 23, 2022
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Lightyear (2022) |
A 100-minute dynamic and entertaining adventure that is, above all, visual perfection. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Rancho (2021) |
A fascinating, raw, keen, and unusual portrait of the daily life of a group of convicts in a maximum security prison. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 02, 2022
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022) |
... An entertaining adventure that doesn't completely satisfy. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 02, 2022
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The Broken Land (2021) |
... A contemporary western of genuine Argentine color that though supported by recognizable [genre] elements, it allows itself to play more than once with the mythical and the chimerical. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted Jun 01, 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) |
With his most “personal” movie, he [Nicolas Cage] makes it clear that his talent doesn't weight him down at all. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) |
Key in the evolution of the Marvel cinematic universe... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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Virus-32 (2022) |
Virus-32 could take place in any city in the world, but it is zombies à la Uruguayan, built with patience, love for the genre, technical skill, and a very curated mise en scène. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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The Northman (2022) |
There is no better word than “visceral”, in its broadest meaning, as a compact synthesis of everything that happens here. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) |
... A plain and simple imitation of real figures in a dramatized, flat, and superficial version of the documentary feature that inspired [the film]. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 18, 2022
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Official Competition (2021) |
... Explicit, unforgiving, and cruel portrait of a world heatedly marked by appearances, vanity, dreams of glory, and false pride. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 18, 2022
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The Bad Guys (2022) |
Amidst quotes and references to 90s movies, a lot of fun, and fast-paced action scenes that are always comprehensible, these bad guys start looking at themselves in the mirror... [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 18, 2022
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Ambulance (2022) |
A vertiginous story that is forgotten at high speed. [Full review in Spanish] - La Nación (Argentina)
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| Posted May 18, 2022
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