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3/5
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Silent Night
(2023)
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Ricardo Rosado
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[John Woo] returns to fill the floor with shell casings that fly in slow motion in front of an impassive protagonist. We didn't ask for that much either... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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She Came to Me
(2023)
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Pablo Vázquez
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... It's easy to be tempted to dismiss this film as failed or frustrated; What cannot be denied is the filmmaker's continuous digging, her constant struggle to get out of established norms and boundaries. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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4/5
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Foremost By Night
(2023)
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Jordi Batlle Caminal
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... A daring exercise of creative, experimental freedom that flirts with both realistic and dreamlike images. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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4/5
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El Amor de Andrea
(2023)
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Beatriz Martínez
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Martín Cuenca delves into raw quotidian realism through the radiography of a broken family in which the feeling of orphanhood throbs. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 29, 2023
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3/5
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Teresa
(2023)
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Pablo Vázquez
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... A technically astonishing film that plays both hands to simultaneously respect the text and innovate in form. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 29, 2023
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4/5
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Scrapper
(2023)
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Juan Pando
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Charlotte Regan delves with delicacy and humor, without avoiding the dramatic aspects, into the clumsy but sincere relationship between a girl and her absent father... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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3/5
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Wish
(2023)
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Fran Chico
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The old and the new go hand in hand in a film that serves as a culmination and summary of 100 years of existence. 100 years of magic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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3/5
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Something Is About to Happen
(2023)
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Jordi Costa
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There are some sequences that are more successful than others, but, as a whole, Something is About to Happen grabs you and keeps you hooked... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 20, 2023
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4/5
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The Permanent Picture
(2023)
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Mariona Borrull
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But here lies the twist of modern expressionlessness: behind every twisted smile, there is a well of affection. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 20, 2023
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3/5
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La Ermita
(2023)
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Desirée De Fez
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Even so, there are a few things in La Ermita that confirm Pereda as a key figure in contemporary horror (and fantasy) cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 20, 2023
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3/5
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The Old Oak
(2023)
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Fausto Fernandez
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A luminous and hopeful drama... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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4/5
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Thanksgiving
(2023)
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Ricardo Rosado
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Thanksgiving is funny, bloody and charmingly self-aware... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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2/5
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
(2023)
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Fran Chico
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the result of [Hollywood's] financial ambitions. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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3/5
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La Memoria Del Cine
(2023)
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Pablo Vázquez
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Méndez-Leite is sufficiently interesting to justify Salama's warm, sensitive work that effectively fulfills the informative part, and reaches unexpectedly valuable and recognizable heights when it delves into the human. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 15, 2023
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3/5
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El Maestro que Prometió el Mar
(2023)
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Pere Vall
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El Maestro que Prometió el Mar takes us from the waves of its warlike past to the shores of a peaceful present, celebrating the small wins while also noting the negligencies. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 13, 2023
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3/5
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The Marvels
(2023)
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Fran Chico
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The new Marvel movie had everything against it. And yet, it may be the answer to the studio's mini-crisis... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2023
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4/5
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Jokes & Cigarettes
(2023)
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Blai Morell
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[Jokes & Cigarettes] suggests the suffering of a comedian who must give everything to suffuse the audience with a harmless tranquilizer, laughter, and without showing the pain that eats away at him inside. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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4/5
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Past Lives
(2023)
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Sergi Sánchez
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In Song's film, delicacy, sensitivity and empathy towards her characters reign. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 01, 2023
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3/5
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Alimañas
(2023)
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Pablo Vázquez
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A fierce comedy that's morally sordid, minimalist, nihilistic, awkward, and dark as the belly of a rat, at times vulgar and often insidious... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 31, 2023
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3/5
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Mi Otro Jon
(2023)
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Juan Pando
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In these times, it is still brave to reclaim optimism, the joy of living, solidarity, and friendship in the face of misfortune and death, like [Arango] does in this comedy.
Posted Oct 30, 2023
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3/5
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Hypnotic
(2023)
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Fausto Fernandez
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Let those of us who accept the real unreality of a Raymond Chandler Philip K. Dick, enjoy a Ben Affleck playing a metatemporal detective... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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3/5
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Divertimento
(2022)
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Roger Salvans
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Divertimento is a vitalistic film, filled with the best intentions and a soundtrack full of classic hits. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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3/5
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Trolls Band Together
(2023)
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Fausto Fernandez
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Trolls Band Together's contagious optimism and its gift to fans of boy bands can't be denied... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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3/5
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Mamacruz
(2023)
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Eulàlia Iglesias
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Mánver gives power to a neglected female figure, and her performance takes over the film; Ortega asserts the woman's regained vital drive as a happy reunion with herself rather than as a disagreement with her environment. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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3/5
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The Movie Teller
(2023)
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Antonio Trashorras
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Meticulous but subtle, sober but powerful, both in mise-en-scene and performances, the Danish filmmaker has achieved a narrative without gimmicks... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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4/5
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The Animal Kingdom
(2023)
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Diego De Fez
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... A visually arresting film, valuable for its intrepidness and beautiful for the unusual kindness with which it delves into the fantastic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 25, 2023
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3/5
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Across the River and Into the Trees
(2023)
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Jordi Batlle Caminal
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But on the contemplative side and on the aesthetic side, it is a visual delicacy. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 24, 2023
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3/5
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Me He Hecho Viral
(2023)
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Juan Pando
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Coira proves to be a skilled director who can bring out the best in his performers and the situations they get themselves in. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 24, 2023
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3/5
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The Tenderness
(2023)
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Roger Salvans
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Villanueva maintains the wit, freshness, humor, rhythm, and humanity of Sanzol's original work while unsheathing a spear in favor of love and the courage to find it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 19, 2023
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Orlando, My Political Biography
(2023)
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Mariona Borrull
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[Preciado's] very simple missive about duality and beauty accompany a powerful argument, and perhaps serve to explain identities that are still exotic for the general public... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 16, 2023
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3/5
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Chinas
(2023)
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Alex Montoya
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Chinas invites us to reflect upon class conscience, to open our minds to what is different, and to accept people as they are. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 13, 2023
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2/5
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Ricardo Rosado
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... The direct references to the landmark that has brought us here seem interesting, but the film results in a pastiche of reflections of the past filtered by the contemporary optics of the industry. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 09, 2023
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4/5
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Blai Morell
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Although an imperfect film with good ideas that are not always well executed, it is appreciated that [Believer] goes for a mix between the suggested and the explicit in which the former wins over the latter... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 09, 2023
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2/5
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The Creator
(2023)
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Ricardo Rosado
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Edwards has decided to continue operating expensive toys without clearly knowing what he wants to do with them. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 03, 2023
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4/5
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The Creator
(2023)
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Fausto Fernandez
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Edwards returns to sci-fi as the backdrop for strange and displaced figures in the ambitious The Creator, and once again places a love story at its center... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 03, 2023
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3/5
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Nowhere
(2023)
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Manuel D'Ocon
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However, the good message of the story remains and leaves a mark: hope always takes one step further than mankind. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 03, 2023
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3/5
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Saw X
(2023)
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Blai Morell
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For fans of the saga and lovers of very raw red meat. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 03, 2023
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3/5
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The Cuckoo's Curse
(2023)
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Juan Pando
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Mar Targarona has directed a visually elegant supernatural thriller with suspense that avoids gratuitous scares... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 29, 2023
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3/5
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Dumb Money
(2023)
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Alex Montoya
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It is never as biting as it should be, although it does give visual and narrative agility to the event... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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3/5
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Un Amor
(2023)
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Laura Pérez
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Coixet is an expert at portraying those remote, isolated, and disconcerting 'non places' and capturing an almost telluric energy where the characters seem disconnected from the outside world, and often also from themselves. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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2/5
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Expend4bles
(2023)
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Fran Chico
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The worst farewell possible. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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4/5
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Perfect Days
(2023)
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Alex Montoya
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Wim Wenders is an admirer of Yasujiro Ozu (hard not to), and something of his spirit breathes in the relaxed perspective of the German filmmaker. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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5/5
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Fallen Leaves
(2023)
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Alex Montoya
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Fallen Leaves portrays the love that alleviates a working class that never loses their dignity, who resists giving up against life's odds, elements, and bosses withouts scruples or empathy. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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3/5
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Friends Till Death
(2023)
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Pablo Vázquez
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... A filmmaker who, at least here, shows that he is very clear about what he wants and has his own voice outside fashionable and opportunistic messages. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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4/5
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They Shot the Piano Player
(2023)
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Alex Montoya
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They Shot the Piano Player takes justice into its own hands in the best way possible: by giving life to the dead man... remembering him for who he is: one of the greatest samba-jazz players in the history of Brazilian music. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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3/5
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Operation Napoleon
(2023)
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Roger Salvans
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... A thriller of classical edges with a feverish and tenacious pace, along the lines of '80s espionage intrigues that marked the end of the Cold War. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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4/5
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The Boy and the Heron
(2023)
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Alex Montoya
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The Boy and The Heron deals with death, childhood struggles, and the search for the necessary resources to find solace and push on forward. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 26, 2023
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3/5
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The Survivor
(2021)
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Antonio Trashorras
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Despite its flaws, the result is sufficiently convincing emotionally to transcend a mere style exercise and allows us to rediscover a Ben Foster that, once again, justifies us to glue our eyes to the screen. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 26, 2023
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3/5
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All the Names of God
(2023)
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Pere Vall
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Luis Tosar and Inma Cuesta are the most interesting elements in this film rich in dilemmas... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 19, 2023
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3/5
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Verano en Rojo
(2023)
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Jordi Picatoste
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All in all, Verano en Rojo is as efficient in its denouncement as Spotlight (2015) but less boring. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 18, 2023
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