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Randy Meeks
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Movies reviews only
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Silent Night (2023) |
A triumphant return from John Woo, and proof that he's capable of breathing new life into the street avenger genre; He should've never left. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Nov 27, 2023
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Wish (2023) |
More intended as marketing ("Let's make the new Frozen") than a story that could stand on its own, the new movie by the studio feels tired and lost within its apparent innocence. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Nov 17, 2023
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) |
Yes, you can be commercial and unnecessary while at the same time setting up interesting ideas and showing singular charisma and style. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Nov 10, 2023
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) |
... A succession of repetitive scenes replete with bland characters (with the notable exception of William Afton, wonderfully played by Matthew Lillard) that explore '80s iconography retrofitted for the new millennium. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Nov 07, 2023
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The Movie Teller (2023) |
Constantly teetering, the unfocused screenplay never quite manages to capture our excitement. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Nov 06, 2023
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Red Island (2023) |
It is the complete opposite of what it pretends to be: a soft, boring, and gray concoction that is only saved by the fierce touch of its last minutes. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Nov 06, 2023
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The Tenderness (2023) |
There is a good movie hidden somewhere in The Tenderness, but it is unfindable in its current state. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Oct 19, 2023
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Chinas (2023) |
It is a dramatized fiction that someone has written about the reality of other people they do not know, based on commonalities and sequences that are intended to seem intimate but feel very, very distant. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Oct 16, 2023
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They Shot the Piano Player (2023) |
I wish Trueba had also known how to make me obsessed with the pianist and his destiny but in his rigid control of the narrative he commits his greatest sin: not flowing to the beat of the music. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Oct 16, 2023
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The Killer (2023) |
The Killer never stops being fun... but always while watching the clock to see when the movie will end. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Oct 02, 2023
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) |
Evil Does Not Exist is a needed and welcome departure from Drive My Car that takes us into a rural Japanese world that refuses to be gentrified... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Saw X (2023) |
A fantasy of macabre riddles, gore galore, torn off limbs, and twists that are as absurd as they are efficient. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023) |
The film plays with a single card, [Dano's] timid interpretation, that triumphs and goes beyond simple imitation, gifting the protagonist with an air that is both clueless and sagacious. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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The Eternal Memory (2023) |
A beautiful and real relationship at its worst time period that refuses to allow its life to be completely ruined. Not as long as they have each other. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 26, 2023
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Un Amor (2023) |
A movie replete with desire, sex, affection, the contradictions of someone inside the spinning cycle of unexpected passion, a timid dog as a symbol of freedom, a scream to the air that breaks everything. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 26, 2023
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May December (2023) |
May December is a treat of a comedy that tastes like unease, unreason, madness, discouragement, toxicity, manipulation, and tarts that no one wants to eat: a complete menu. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Monster (2023) |
Ultimately, Monster isn't just a combative film eager to confront the status quo: above all, it's a film full of beauty and empathy, but also pain and coldness... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Perfect Days (2023) |
[Wenders'] return has been worthy of a great filmmaker capable of reflecting on the world around us and, specifically, on the pieces that make up the life that no one ever tries to fit together. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
This is, possibly, the film that has shaken me the most in the last decade, and it does so not with exaggerated moments of screams and drama, but with the perfect words to rock you into its small cosmos... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Society of the Snow (2023) |
The editing goes far beyond what is required of a biopic: the moment of the fall, narrated from the point of view of an eye and its subsequent silence, is one of the best in the history of disaster cinema... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) |
A film that, in itself, contains all of the director's previous ones, like a two-hour summary of everything that can be done with a pencil, many hours, and an infinite imagination. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Operation Napoleon (2023) |
The characters are sketches of a hero and heroine whose actions are taken from the most boring script playbook possible... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Passages (2023) |
Passages is a punk movie against an absurd Puritanism: sex turns into a vital way of understanding needy and broken characters who would give it all to feel a little real affection. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 19, 2023
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Creatura (2023) |
Creatura is beautiful, but dangerous and savage. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 18, 2023
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) |
Encapsulated in its own groundbreaking idea of mixing genres but at the same time faithfully linked to a classic narrative, A Haunting in Venice results in perfect entertainment that does not want -nor can- aspire to more. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) |
Ultimately, even the most delicious and unique gum becomes flavorless after chewing it. Sadly, originality without limits isn't purposeful. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Godland (2022) |
Godland may not be a masterpiece, but it is an increasingly rare example of contemplative cinema, only this time it hides its poisonous stinger in beauty and lies until it becomes capable of piercing you... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Killer Book Club (2022) |
There is talent in Killer Book Club, but it's completely unfocused and scattered, more concerned with diluting the plagiarism of Scream than in doing something truly original. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Cobweb (2023) |
Cobweb criticizes toxic and excessive parental love and the negligent yankee school system in this story replete with sadness and desperation... [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) |
It's unfair to compare it to others because it's exactly what it wants to be: it's own thing. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Talk to Me (2023) |
Talk to Me has the effervescence of a debut film and the technical solidity of a career that's been simmering for years. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (2022) |
It swaddles you with its tranquil tone, lulls you with museum-worthy visuals, and caresses you with stories within its story and characters rebelling against power. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Haunted Mansion (2023) |
It is becoming increasingly clear that Disney does not need artificial intelligence: its movies already seem robotic and soulless enough. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Tierra de Nuestras Madres (2023) |
Tierra de Nuestras Madres takes our Hispanic history and collective imagination and turns it into a somewhat peaceful ode of resistance against invaders that leave no other option. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jul 26, 2023
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Elemental (2023) |
Elemental is a movie for the whole family as only Pixar knows how to make it: with distinct layers for all ages with a mature, nostalgic, and sad touch for the oldest. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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The Origin of Evil (2022) |
The perfect summer film for those who want to escape action and explosions. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jul 11, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) |
From Indy giving lectures in the present to its final act, the movie is a jumble of riddles worthy of an escape room. An escape room with your grandpa that lacks... the charisma of the original trilogy. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jul 10, 2023
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A Hundred Flowers (2022) |
A Hundred Flowers has better intentions than its outcome and better performances than its screenplay. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 28, 2023
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Dead for a Dollar (2022) |
... A film that, it seems, was created from beginning to end by a program that doesn't understand human emotions or behaviors. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 08, 2023
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) |
Good intentions don't necessarily translate into a good movie, and, sadly, the attempt to mix Bumblebee with the Michael Bay style doesn't quite pay off. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 07, 2023
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The Padilla Affair (2022) |
The Padilla Affair has managed to put it all together, making it not just a magnificent conversation with the present but also an indispensable documentary piece to understand the 20th Century. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Forever Young (2022) |
Ultimately, it all culminates in a soulless, sad, full of air and artifice sentiment, "Well, you should've been there." [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 05, 2023
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Tobacco Barns (2023) |
The fabulous moments are diluted in this film that doesn't really finish telling a story and that sounds repetitive. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 05, 2023
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The Enchanted (2023) |
It isn't perfect nor does it try to be, but it is a wonderful x-ray of an apathetic character who continuously feigns well-being and to whom the burden of everyday life puts her in one vital mood: she's fed up to the max. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
... For now, it has achieved the impossible: we once again believe that superhero cinema can be surprising, fun, and emotional while, at the same time, shaking up our expectations. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Knights of the Zodiac (2023) |
Three screenwriters were necessary to write a tremendously simple plot told in the most complex way possible. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted May 30, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
Halle Bailey will have to visit a chiropractor, because she alone carries this entire film on her shoulders. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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Incredible But True (2022) |
Dupieux is original and funny, but he can't stop elbowing you so that you notice. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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A Good Person (2023) |
A Good Person is a story of shades of grey that loses itself in its third act, but just as well deserves our attention to attend a display of honesty told by a regretfully insecure hand. [Full review in Spanish]
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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The Eight Mountains (2022) |
... One can only admire the great work of Groeningen and Vandersmeersch in perfectly capturing two lives that run emotionally perpendicular but with a single point in common: a perennial and incombustible friendship. [Full review in Spanish] - Espinof
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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