Pablo Villaça
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Atuando como crítico de cinema desde 1994, é criador e editor do portal Cinema em Cena, um dos mais antigos da Internet brasileira sobre o assunto, funcionando desde 1997. Também foi roteirista e apresentador do programa Cinema em Cena durante dois anos. Além disso, fez parte do júri do Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de BH durante quatro anos consecutivos e se tornou o primeiro membro latino-americano e de língua portuguesa da OFCS, em junho de 2002. Em 2005, lançou seu primeiro livro, "O Cinema Além das Montanhas", uma biografia do cineasta Helvécio Ratton.
Belo Horizonte, Brasil
http://www.cinemaemcena.com.br
Movies reviews only
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Kill Boksoon (2023) |
Jeon Do-yeon´s performance is fantastic; she manages to create a multidimensional character within an absurd framework. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 09, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
It's impossible not to applaud the audacity in opening the movie with a reference to Lawrence of Arabia and ending it with one to The Warriors, not fearing comparison despite the prejudice with which the genre is seen by many. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 02, 2023
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Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022) |
It may not evoke the weight of the tragedy that it portrays successfully enough for us to suffer for the couple, but it is ambitious enough for us to appreciate the exercise that results from this effort. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 31, 2023
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The Whale (2022) |
The Whale is indefensible, turning out to be a silly melodrama that views its protagonist with a loathing it tries to present as empathy. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 04, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
Knock at the Cabin works very well as we watch it, which is a step up from Shyamalan's latest efforts, which usually fell apart in real time. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Holy Spider (2022) |
Unfortunately, Abbasi's thematic ambitions are constantly sabotaged by the screenplay´s frequent missteps. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
Ruben Östlund is proving himself to be a master at creating discomfort by exposing the hypocrisy of the characters he follows. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
Martin McDonagh's humor resides in the wounds of his characters, who, suffering from inflamed emotional wounds, know how to aim precisely at the weak spots of those they want to hurt. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 04, 2023
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Tár (2022) |
Blanchett creates one of those performances that transcends the actor who originated it - a rare (and therefore precious) phenomenon. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Armageddon Time (2022) |
Mediocre as narrative, juvenile as social message and tremendously middle class in its satisfaction with its own awareness of the evils of the world. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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The Menu (2022) |
Its critical view of the economic elite is one that Cinema, as a politically dynamic Art, reflects with increasing frequency in a reality in which social inequalities become greater and greater. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
It echoes the exciting feeling of discovering the possibilities of cinema, using it as part of a narrative that mirrors what made Spielberg one of the greatest filmmakers in history. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
As much as I want to see Johnson explore and expand his talent to other genres and themes, I would not be dissatisfied if he spent the rest of his career creating new mysteries for Benoit Blanc. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) |
A director like Guillermo del Toro, who sees the outcasts and the lonely as heroes, could never create a Pinocchio that defended “perfection” as a reasonable or even desirable goal. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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Pinocchio (2019) |
It's everything that recent live-action remakes of Disney classics have tried to do without success: a film that respects and follows in the footsteps of the original, but offers its own reasons for existing. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Aftersun (2022) |
Aftersun is a beautiful study of how the nature of our memories changes as our time on Earth expands our ability to see the reality of one another. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 17, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
Judging by the sneers of some critics during the screening, it´s disappointing to realize people either lost the ability to appreciate disciplined excess or resigned themselves to the safety of commonplace. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jun 02, 2022
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The Batman (2022) |
The Batman is an OK film that thinks its excellent. It's also so inspired by Fincher's two exceptional pictures about serial killers that I'm surprised it didn't call itself The Ba7man. (Full review in Portuguese.) - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 01, 2022
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The French Dispatch (2021) |
It is a shame that perhaps Anderson's gorgeous signature style will distract part of the audience to the point that they miss the humanity and beauty in his stories. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 31, 2021
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
A portrait of how toxic masculinity is a mask worn by small, insecure men whose greatest fear is that the world will discover their cowardice. [Full review in Portuguese.] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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House of Gucci (2021) |
In a way, it's Gaga who serves as the films anchor as the story around her tries to sail in all directions. [Full review in Portuguese.] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) |
Much more interested in maintaining a strong connection (and the consequent marketing potential) between all its movies/products, Marvel cant afford to allow any trace of authorship or imagination in its individual projects. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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Don't Look Up (2021) |
The film raises a fundamental question if we truly intend to analyze its effectiveness: how to satirize something that has already become absurd to the point of defying any common sense? [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021) |
Juvenile or not, it embraces its conviction in love's ability to overcome differences and circumvent obstacles that appear insurmountable. I can't say I share it, but, for all its flaws, the film made me feel it briefly. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 22, 2021
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Marighella (2019) |
The film is not afraid to question aspects of its protagonists personality, nor does it seek to soften him up - which would be a betrayal of his memory. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Nov 12, 2021
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The Suicide Squad (2021) |
The film refuses to take itself seriously at the same time it manages to avoid the dangerous sanitization of violence thats so common in the genre. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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Malignant (2021) |
Beautifully inspired by the Italian gialli horror, Malignant even turns Annabelle Wallis into a Barbara Steele doppelgänger. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) |
By virtue of being free from the obligation to make the audience laugh every 30 seconds, Burnham allows himself to experiment with the form and the rhythm of his special, creating a structure that is simply brilliant. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jun 04, 2021
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Lois Lane e Jimmy Olsen chegam a irritar pela estupidez, mas a cinessérie mantém um bom ritmo e traz Alyn com um Clark Kent/Superman suficientemente carismático. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted May 05, 2021
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The Father (2020) |
This is a tragic portrait painted with colors of horror; a study of empathy that tries to put the audience in the mind of a man who is in the process of losing it. [Full review in Portuguese[ - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 24, 2021
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Crisis (2021) |
Dealing with an important and contemporary issue, Jarecki shows great sensitivity in guiding his cast and also ability in jumping between plots and even between genres, deftly balancing between thriller and drama without sacrificing either. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 20, 2021
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Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) |
Like him or not, theres no question Zack Snyder is a true Author - something that becomes patently clear when we compare his version of Justice League to Whedons inferior one. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 19, 2021
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Coming 2 America (2021) |
With the exception of Shrek 2, Eddie Murphy has a pretty bad resumé when it comes to sequels - and Coming 2 America unfortunately is another comedic failure of a brilliant comedian. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 06, 2021
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The Money Pit (1986) |
Not only Tom Hanks and Shelley Long share a fantastic chemistry, the physical humor (full of brilliant set pieces) is first-rate and allows Hanks to show off his impeccable comedy chops. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 15, 2021
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Soul (2020) |
Although it is ostensibly about what lies before and after life, Soul is touching because, ultimately, it realizes that what really matters is what we do while it lasts. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 31, 2020
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) |
Wonder Woman 1984 suggests director Patty Jenkins and her star (and now producer) Gal Gadot have extracted all the wrong lessons from the success of the previous film. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2020
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His House (2020) |
This is not a movie simply interested in frightening the audience, but in causing that shiver down the spine that is much more difficult to forget after the story ends. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 15, 2020
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Emicida: AmarElo - É Tudo Pra Ontem (2020) |
Emicidas work is even more uplifting thanks to his humbleness in pointing out how he stands on the shoulders of those who, with their struggle and their death, opened up the paths he travels and which he still has to pioneer today. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 12, 2020
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Mank (2020) |
Maybe for the first time in his carreer, Fincher makes obvious choices - but, even worse, he doesnt even go all the way. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 06, 2020
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) |
Although very funny, this movie also has a darkness that derives from the understanding that its humor is only possible thanks to the ugliness of the very real people it portrays. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Oct 22, 2020
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Apesar da abordagem incorreta de Gordon (que pensa estar dirigindo um terror), o filme se beneficia do interessante roteiro e das ótimas atuações de McKenna, Baldwin e Wendt. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Aug 21, 2020
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Onward (2020) |
A reminder that when Pixar gets it right, there are not many who can truly compete with the brilliance of its artists. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 04, 2020
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Bacurau (2019) |
The fact Brazil is in a moral and social collapse is reflected in the difference between Kleber's previous films and this new one: they used to have anger as subtext; now, it's its discourse. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 04, 2020
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The Edge of Democracy (2019) |
A poet interprets and communicates the world through metaphors and allegories found in everyday life in order to express not only what she sees, but how she feels about what she sees - and Petra Costa has the soul of a poet. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 04, 2020
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Judy (2019) |
A bomb that achieves the feat of being a hagiography that makes the protagonist unbearable. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 31, 2020
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Marriage Story (2019) |
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson bring a complexity out of their characters that the screenplay itself sometimes lacks. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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1917 (2019) |
It's a technically impressive movie, but also an empty and trivial one. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 25, 2020
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Bombshell (2019) |
Roach explores his experience with comedy to bring a certain lightness to the narrative, which does not prevent him from focusing on the dramatic aspects when necessary. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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Little Women (2019) |
Gerwig avoids the common mistake of ending up creating an anachronistic and artificial tone by bringing a modern sensibility to a period piece. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) |
If it makes us cry (and it certainly made me), it's not because it shows us tragedies and conflicts, but just because it illustrates Mr. Rogers' generosity and compassion. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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