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Oscar Moralde

Oscar Moralde's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border (2013) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film, although it positions itself in dialogue with contemporary debates about the border, eschews a clearly delineated historical narrative.” – Slant Magazine Sep 28, 2014 Full Review The Liberator (2013) 36% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's sense of complexity is giving us masses of people moved by Simon Bolvar's words, and gorgeous sweeping vistas of the landscape backed by a stirring orchestra.” – Slant Magazine Sep 28, 2014 Full Review Natural Sciences (2014) EDIT “Breezy and slight in its runtime, Matas Lucchesi has crafted a coming-of-age film that's modest in its ambitions, but touching nonetheless.” – House Next Door Jun 17, 2014 Full Review Bethlehem (2013) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “In the end, the film's misstep isn't some failure at being sufficiently morally gray. In being the thriller that it is, it smudges the palette beyond recognition.” – Slant Magazine Feb 17, 2014 Full Review In Bloom (2013) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The foreclosure of possibilities provided by the use of the long take assists in the indictment of chauvinism and patriarchal brutality that underpin, directly and indirectly, many moments in the film.” – Slant Magazine Jan 6, 2014 Full Review The Selfish Giant (2013) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The ear for language is paired with an eye for the landscape, and the film finds beauty even in such a seemingly dreary, economically depressed community.” – Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2013 Full Review The Golden Dream (2013) 89% EDIT “Saved from such simplicity by the time and space it gives to the ensemble cast and their relationships.” – House Next Door Nov 14, 2013 Full Review In a World ... (2013) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Lake Bell holds the thing together through sheer charisma, and in fact the foibles of the movie only start to show when she absents herself for extended stretches of time.” – Slant Magazine Jul 26, 2013 Full Review Europa Report (2013) 81% EDIT “The jumbled chronology of Europa Report aims to mold something resembling a suspense or mystery arc, but only further draws attention the artifice.” – House Next Door Jun 24, 2013 Full Review Expedition to the End of the World (2013) 84% EDIT “The film's visuals are exquisite, with the cinematography capturing the beautiful desolation of the landscape and lending a grandiose cinematic charge to the whole enterprise.” – House Next Door Jun 24, 2013 Full Review When I Saw You (2012) 83% EDIT “Its denouement may feel like a cheat, but is perhaps one of the few ways one can justifiably end a story like this.” – House Next Door Jun 21, 2013 Full Review House With a Turret (2012) EDIT “There's an impenetrable greyness to Eva Neymann's House with a Turret, and that's not merely a facile way of pointing out that this Ukrainian film, set during World War II, is in black and white.” – House Next Door Jun 21, 2013 Full Review Drug War (2012) 94% EDIT “here's definitely a different relationship to space and the urban environment, a changing-up of textures and details, but it all feels like a familiar overarching trajectory.” – House Next Door Jun 21, 2013 Full Review I.D. (2012) EDIT “Kamal K.M. conjures a grimmer, more frenzied image of what it means to live and work at the margins of society in his debut feature I.D.” – House Next Door Jun 18, 2013 Full Review Workers (2013) EDIT “A remarkable debut with delicately composed visuals and subtle emotional restraint.” – House Next Door Jun 18, 2013 Full Review The Women and the Passenger (2013) EDIT “But more enthralling are the maids' monologues about their own romantic histories, each with their own acutely crystallized moments of heartbreak and longing.” – House Next Door Jun 18, 2013 Full Review Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013) 84% EDIT “Silva skillfully builds the film from long stretches of improvisation and flowing banter, though his perpetually restless delirium tremens camera is shakier than any film lacking gunshots ought to be.” – House Next Door Jun 18, 2013 Full Review Mud (2013) 97% EDIT “Mud's lively sense of humor sometimes milks laughs from movie conventions that might otherwise seem hackneyed.” – House Next Door Mar 12, 2013 Full Review EDIT “Most pointedly, the film is specifically a story of men's isolation, of a crisis of masculinity, clawing at each other and grinding each other into the dirt.” – House Next Door Jun 22, 2012 Full Review Luv (2012) 35% EDIT “If the overshadowing of Woody and Vincent's relationship by the drug game feels like a betrayal of the audience, the film understands the full implications of that betrayal” – House Next Door Jun 22, 2012 Full Review Sister (2012) 97% EDIT “This family drama, slow and reserved and poetic, all takes place in the shadow of a mountain.” – House Next Door Jun 22, 2012 Full Review Summer Games (2011) EDIT “Most striking here is Condolucci's portrayal of Nic, where the ultimate question is whether the monster that comes out in his games is really him or "somebody else."” – House Next Door Jun 19, 2012 Full Review Juan of the Dead (2011) 83% EDIT “Most strikingly, Juan of the Dead understands its unique situation as a Cuban genre film, and its political awareness gives texture to the gags.” – House Next Door Jun 19, 2012 Full Review Footnote (2011) 88% EDIT “This tension of uncovering hidden knowledge comes through in the way Cedar enlivens the material with a manic energy by transmuting the qualities of footnotes into the film.” – House Next Door Nov 14, 2011 Full Review Michael (2011) 80% EDIT “It's a chilling and detached film, one that's clinical in its gaze; we know the brutality and horror Michael is inflicting, but Schleinzer only gives us glimpses of its hazy edges, of the before-and-after logistics.” – House Next Door Nov 14, 2011 Full Review
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