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3/5
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Thor: Love and Thunder
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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... The comedic elements are way superior to the indigestible epic finale it attempts to accomplish. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 06, 2022
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4.5/5
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The Black Phone
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Derrickson handles the tension with a metronome... and ends up shaping up not only a great villain and future Halloween costume / Funko Pop, but a great horror film that should be at the zenith of the genre in 2022. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 22, 2022
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4/5
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Lightyear
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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... One of the best Sci-Fi films of the last few years. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 16, 2022
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2.5/5
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Jurassic World Dominion
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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When everyone finally gets together, nothing happens! It's as if they were just casually gathering to take a selfie!
Posted Jun 09, 2022
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3/5
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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The comparison of today's influencers to the hippies of the original [film] is tremendously entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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3/5
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Moonfall
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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If you judge Moonfall as another catastrophe movie then it may even be boring, but the science fiction concept makes it more interesting than it might seem at first. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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3/5
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Belfast
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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The film is awarded more for its wrapping than for its content. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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2.5/5
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Uncharted
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A new [kind of] bland brand movie prefabricated to fit into the superhero film panorama... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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5/5
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Drive My Car
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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One of the most delicate and beautiful works of our time... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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4.5/5
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La abuela
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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It's a claustrophobic terror, very oppressive, which happens practically in one single stage, the grandmother's house. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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3.5/5
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Scream
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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It won't go down in history for being a great horror film, it isn't, but for its undeniable ability to laugh at us, at them, at all... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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3/5
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Nightmare Alley
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Too many branches for very little forest. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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5/5
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Licorice Pizza
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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It seems like a small movie and, really, this is giant. Long live PTA. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 25, 2022
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4.5/5
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The Batman
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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More than a superhero film –there is little "super" about the masked hero– it is a contemporary film noir with touches of absolute terror. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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4/5
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Happening
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Carefully captures the nightmare that befalls the protagonist, with images that combine intimacy and everyday life while the drama -along with [her] gestation- grows. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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4/5
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Belle
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A visual wellspring, a cascade of fast, fleeting images that capture quite well the sign of the times. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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2/5
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Morbius
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A multi-referential gazpacho... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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5/5
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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Transports you rhythmically and fluidly on a journey, which although not spatial, it is in equal parts beautiful and exciting, sarcastic and romantic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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3/5
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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The action sequences... create space for the dramatic core to grow covering a good part of the [plot] holes previously created. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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4/5
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Ambulance
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Ambulance is the adrenalin action movie that brightens the afternoon, the day, the week, the month, the year. Go watch it! [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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4/5
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The Northman
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A magnificent Mise-en-scène, straddling the subtle and the brutally direct, in a narrative that fearlessly advances towards existential fatalism. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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3/5
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Veneciafrenia
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Good ideas that seem to deflate during the second part of the film... although well livened by bloody moments that will relish those who enjoy a good bloodbath. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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4.5/5
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X
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A real delight, a genius within the genre that while paying homage to the classics, applies a rolling pin to expand the plot towards the unexpected. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2022
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3/5
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Top Gun: Maverick
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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When the film stops the nostalgic shenanigans, it takes flight. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 17, 2022
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4/5
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Red Rocket
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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It achieves the seemingly impossible: that we empathize with someone who doesn’t deserve sympathy and are amused even when what we’re seeing isn’t quite a laughing matter. Red Rocket, Sean Baker, Simon Rex… all tremendous. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 12, 2022
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4/5
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
(2022)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Fun, spectacular, frightening, and at times profoundly dramatic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 12, 2022
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4.5/5
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The Card Counter
(2020)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Schrader... brings out the best of himself. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 06, 2022
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4/5
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Spider-man: No Way Home knows how to take advantage of a risky and daring starting point to build a film that pays tribute to its past.
Posted Dec 16, 2021
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4/5
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
(2021)
|
Tomás Andrés
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[Mckenna Grace] gives an acting lesson as the wonderful Phoebe and bears most of the dramatic and comedic weight of the plot. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 08, 2021
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3.5/5
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House of Gucci
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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As ambiguous as it is unexpected. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 08, 2021
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4/5
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Last Night in Soho
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A new leap forward in [Edgar Wright 's] career that has never ceased to amaze or amuse us. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 08, 2021
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4/5
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The Power of the Dog
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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One of the most evocative, ambiguous and accomplished films of this year. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 08, 2021
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4.5/5
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The Green Knight
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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[Contains] difficult balance between the brutal and the poetic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 08, 2021
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4/5
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The Last Duel
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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All in all, the most interesting thing about the film is when Scott brings its operatic side to the fore and presents us with bloody medieval battles. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 29, 2021
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3.5/5
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The French Dispatch
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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It's much more of the same, it's true, but if you're on Wes's team, you're going to enjoy it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 28, 2021
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3/5
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Eternals
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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The film works on two levels, the cosmic and fantastic, that of the celestials, and the human, the dramatic, but the mixture of the two does not quite come together completely. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 28, 2021
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3.5/5
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Halloween Kills
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Fun fan service full of gory deaths. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 25, 2021
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3.5/5
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Cry Macho
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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A very simple... but one I watched with tremendous satisfaction. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 24, 2021
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5/5
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Dune
(2021)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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An incomparable first-rate show. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 16, 2021
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4/5
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Free Guy
(2021)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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A good addition to this film genre. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 31, 2021
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4/5
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The Suicide Squad
(2021)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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[John Cena's] laughing at himself all the time and it works really well. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 30, 2021
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4/5
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Black Widow
(2021)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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It's vibrant, spectacular... and it's quite fun. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 19, 2021
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4/5
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Luca
(2021)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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Tremendously fun. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 19, 2021
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3.5/5
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F9 The Fast Saga
(2021)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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Movies must be valued based on their goals and aspirations, and Fast & Furious aspires to be very summer entertainment. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 19, 2021
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5/5
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Nomadland
(2020)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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A highly recommended road-movie where the melodrama is supported with steel nails, avoiding any kind of easy solution and proudly raising the gaze of those who lost everything. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2021
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3/5
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
(2020)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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Although the film has certain narrative missteps, especially when conducting different actions in parallel, these are compensated by the usual bursts of brilliant made-in-Sorkin dialogue and by its forceful plot effects. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2021
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4/5
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Minari
(2020)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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In the end, Minari tells us about the difficulty of being, both as a solitary entity, as a member of a family, defeating the group over unity. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2021
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4.5/5
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Sound of Metal
(2019)
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Alejandro G. Calvo
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[A] film that delves into the internal struggle of a man and his new condition. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2021
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3.5/5
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Promising Young Woman
(2020)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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"Promising Young Woman" fits perfectly in an Oscars season that has wanted to find a commitment to the troubled times we live in. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2021
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2.5/5
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The Father
(2020)
|
Alejandro G. Calvo
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[I]n this film love ends up winning, no matter how difficult it is. sometimes.
Posted Jun 14, 2021
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