
Sergi Sánchez
Movies reviews only
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Passages (2023) |
Passages is a skeleton of significant movements, of raw, contradictory impulses that disguise the complexity of desire with a narrative transparency that is not without intensity, sustained by excellent performances... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Sep 01, 2023
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Walk Up (2022) |
Walk Up is about the lives we haven't lived and the ones we still have yet left to live with the hope there'll always be someone willing to imagine them. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Return to Dust (2022) |
There's something immensely beautiful in the way Return to Dust delicately portrays the quiet love that blooms between two outcasts that's almost reminiscent of silent movies... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 17, 2023
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No Bears (2022) |
No image is innocent, Panahi tells us in this ferocious, non-complacent self-portrait of the artist on the brink of collapse. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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One Fine Morning (2022) |
... The film turns into the story of a woman that deserves to reconnect with herself. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Apr 03, 2023
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The Kings of the World (2022) |
The lyrical overtures of Laura Mora's excellent film do not aim to romanticize that journey back to the geneses... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
The most beautiful thing about this magnificent personal film in which accuracy isn't as important as the re-imagined real events is how Spielberg shares his vision of the world through the art of filmmaking. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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The Novelist's Film (2022) |
With The Novelist's Film, Hong Sang-soo vindicates his right to find cine in his actors, in the relationships with space, and in words that stir his deepest emotions -- like someone who prepares a magic potion for adventurers. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 29, 2022
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White Noise (2022) |
In the last stretch, the film struggles to smoothen the abrupt tonal changes, but it closes with a memorable musical number... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Armageddon Time (2022) |
The director doesn't shield himself behind the genre, instead, he shows himself with the vulnerability of someone who has chosen to share his diary, and has transcribed his memories without formal exuberance... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Peter von Kant (2022) |
Ozon finds in Fassbinder a kindred spirit, but that doesn't mean that he is capable of handling the tonal shifts in his homage with the same skill as his mentor. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Pacifiction (2022) |
Pacifiction is simultaneously an atmospheric film and a character study in which Serra manages to pervade us with Tahiti's heat, indolence, and inherent danger. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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Spring Breakers (2012) |
Korine uses Gomez and Hudgens like Godard used Fonda in Tout va Bien: Symbols the film flips to its favor and against... they become sympathetic [fast] and turn into superheroes that seem to have escaped a white trash Barbarella. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 29, 2022
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The Great Beauty (2013) |
It would be a disservice to consider this generous film a mere homage. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 18, 2022
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In Front of Your Face (2021) |
... Makes us think on the kindness of strangers until Hong finishes his moral tale with a lucid chuckle. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 14, 2022
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Mug (2018) |
Mug is a bit rough though it is inevitable to be moved by an average guy's desperation after a work accident to become the first patient in Poland who receives a face transplant. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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The Tree of Life (2011) |
A beautiful reflection in its bipolar structure, that fluidly equates the cosmic with the intimate. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jun 22, 2022
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Pearl Harbor (2001) |
'Pearl Harbor' effortlessly self-parodies itself. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jun 22, 2022
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
At times it seems as if Roman Polanski adapted a rom com written by Philip K. Dick... [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind] is the most tenebrous romantic comedy ever filmed. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Memoria (2021) |
Apichatpong's film – which is, yes, a fundamental experience to understand the future of contemporary audiovisual media – becomes an absolutely hypnotic cross between the work of Borges and 'Close Encounters or the Third Kind'. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Cow (2021) |
A rigorous exercise of subjectivity, Arnold humanizes this cow with no future... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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Alcarràs (2022) |
Translates into images what many neorealist filmmakers... [have] pursued endlessly: the truth... [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted May 17, 2022
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Three Floors (2021) |
Lets its characters breathe. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 17, 2021
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
This is where Campion feels at home: in the elusive mysteries of desire. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 03, 2021
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Annette (2021) |
Annette is anything but comfortable: abrupt, redundant, pessimistic, it insists on jumping into the abyss without a lifeguard. It is, in a way, an antimusical. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Oct 18, 2021
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Here We Are (2020) |
Something between Neorealism and mainstream Hollywood. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Oct 18, 2021
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The Human Voice (2020) |
The actress-filmmaker synergy is so intense that one misses knowing what happens to this woman when, finally, she learns to hang up the phone. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Oct 30, 2020
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Alfredo Castro has perfidious charisma. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Aug 27, 2020
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Under the Skin (2013) |
Under the Skin will not only go down in the history of science fiction cinema for its powerful imagery... but also because of how easily it revises the myth of the femme fatale. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 20, 2020
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Lara (2019) |
The most difficult part of [Lara] is that it forces us to empathize with a woman who can't help but destroy everything she touches. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jul 20, 2020
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Transsiberian (2008) |
What could have been a... 1970s Europudding byproducts turns into an entertaining thriller. - Fotogramas
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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The Last House on the Left (2009) |
Dennis Iliadis does a facelift to the Craven film's squalid camp. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Apr 24, 2020
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
Moonrise Kingdom is the closest that Wes Anderson has ever gotten to Trufaut. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Apr 08, 2020
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Contagion (2011) |
In a way, Soderbergh has done something politically incorrect by identifying with the virus. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Mar 07, 2020
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The Chambermaid (2018) |
As modest as its heroine. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Mar 06, 2020
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Synonymes (2018) |
Synonyms is a movie about language and its prisons. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Feb 14, 2020
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A Hidden Life (2019) |
One of Malick's most accessible movies in the last decade. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Feb 07, 2020
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Ema (2019) |
In this fascinating heroine, played by Mariana Di Girolamo, there's a force of nature, an anarchy, and excessive emotions that affect the structure of the film. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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Dolittle (2020) |
A movie that is voluntarily old-fashioned and extremely faithful to the stories written by Hugh Lofting. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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The Truth (2019) |
Koreeda tells us it's not always the truth that makes us stronger. Lies can also become a proof of love, even if it's difficult to recognize. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 26, 2019
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Birds of Passage (2018) |
No one had bothered to examine the origins of Colombian drug trafficking from an anthropological point of view... Therein lies the originality of a film like Birds of Passage. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 19, 2019
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The Traitor (2019) |
Written with rigor and sagacity, almost as an investigative journalistic article. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 05, 2019
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Gloria Mundi (2019) |
Guédiguian's sociological Manichaeism is so naive that it makes the film a cartoon of itself. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Dec 02, 2019
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
A worthy sequel, but lacks surprises. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 30, 2019
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Sibyl (2019) |
With her amusing clumsiness and her natural ability to makes us empathize with her blunders, [Virginie] Efira takes over the film before [Justine] Triet can lose its way. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 22, 2019
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Marriage Story (2019) |
Baumbach narrates the miseries and glories of a breakup with extreme sensitivity and epic breath. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 22, 2019
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Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition (2019) |
In theory, this flashback structure is supposed to invigorate a plot that is purely encyclopedic, but instead, it interrupts it, breaks it apart, and takes away its intensity. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 11, 2019
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Fourteen (2019) |
A sensitive movie, of an enormous subtlety that delves into the complex genetic code of friendship. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 08, 2019
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) |
The most beautiful thing about this film is that it captures how we remember love, how we turn it into a pure memory that no one, not even social conventions, can touch. [Full review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 08, 2019
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Parasite (2019) |
It's difficult to find a recent movie that defines in such a visual way, through domestic architecture, the perverse mechanisms of domination of neoliberal capitalism. [Full Review in Spanish] - Fotogramas
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| Posted Nov 07, 2019
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