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Smoke Signals
(1998)
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Rene Jordan
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Smoke Signals doesn't put on airs, but its signals can be appreciated from any distance. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2023
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Traffic
(2000)
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Rene Jordan
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It is a legitimately epic film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 08, 2023
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Y tu mamá también
(2001)
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Rene Jordan
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Y Tu Mama Tambien is a withdrawn film, with overlapping layers, each time more profound. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 08, 2023
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Moulin Rouge
(2001)
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Rene Jordan
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This movie is super strange and the only explanation to its strangeness is that it works in seven or eight different ways, some of them good and some of them bad. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 07, 2023
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When a Man Loves a Woman
(1994)
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Rene Jordan
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The double catharsis is very moving and the ending is immensely honest... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Lone Star
(1996)
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Rene Jordan
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Lone Star is a puzzle, and it seems difficult for all the pieces to tie together, but Sayles assembles a surprising and impactful climax. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 23, 2023
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Fantastic Animation Festival
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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[It's] cloying... but it must be watched. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Man on the Roof
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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Until its very last moment, Man of a Roof is faithful to its semi-documentarian, distanced, and cold atmosphere. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Demon Seed
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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The film is so claustrophobic it's like spending a day talking between four walls. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Ruby
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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Ruby wants to be so many things at once that it ends up lacking a defined identity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Moscow on the Hudson
(1984)
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Rene Jordan
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Maria Conchita Alonso is more than a pretty lady and an innate actress: she is a luminous, divine presence. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 17, 2023
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Smokey and the Bandit
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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What Jackie Gleason does in this film, not even the Deil would pardon. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Day of the Animals
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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The dialogue is so hackneyed that the public chants the answer before the actor can even finish the question. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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A Bridge Too Far
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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It's an impressive experience, stunning, but in the end profoundly depressive. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Other Side of Midnight
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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The Other Side of Midnight is instant camp. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Cria!
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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[Carlos] Saura's film is both chilling and tender. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Jabberwocky
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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The predominant humor of this film is scatological as if the filthiness of bodily functions were inexhaustibly entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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A well-told little tale. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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The film does not distill venom. Its style is not that of a wasp with an evil stinger, rather it is of a bee that goes from flower to flower sipping honey... with second intentions. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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This thirteen-year-old girl [Jodie Foster] is capable of expressing a complete catalog of emotions with the impassivity of a Sphinx. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Late Show
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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The Late Show is a joke, but not in derision. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Last Tycoon
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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No one would know, but what remains from the book is inevitably disjointed nad inconclusive. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Slipper and the Rose
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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The Slipper and the Rose is the most pleasant surprise of the season, not because it is magnificent, but because it is simply a good children's film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Greatest
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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Here the question is to go see historical boxing matches, preserved with documentary fidelity, and to observe Mohammad Ali brave his greatest rival yet: a film camera. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Fun With Dick and Jane
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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George Segal and Jane Fonda portray high-class thieves with astuteness and style. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Thieves
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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Thieves is a bothersome film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Islands in the Stream
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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It has some really good things and plenty of bad. Definitively, it must be watched. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Bound for Glory
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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This film is intelligently directed, magnificently acted, brilliantly shot, and edited by an angled equipped with scissors. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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The Domino Principle
(1977)
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Rene Jordan
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A puzzle with no solution that pretends to be a terrifying sociopolitical insinuation, when it is nothing more than a mockery. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Face to Face
(1975)
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Rene Jordan
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Liv Ullman accomplishes, without debate, the most notable performance of an actress in 1976, and her scene of hysteria is so real that you don't know whether to applaud or run from the theater. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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Voyage of the Damned
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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Banality is contagious and the sin of Voyage of the Damned is having bartered one of the biggest stories of our time into this dull multi-star vehicle of frivolous dressing room gossip. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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Fellini's Casanova
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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This film is so delicious, and so exuberant, that one doesn't know where to begin with it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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...atrocious film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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The Enforcer
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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It's truly very violent, but it is also tremendously effective. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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Freaky Friday
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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Freaky Friday is pleasant entertainment for matinees, but its anchor of salvation comes in the form of the two excellent actrices. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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A Matter of Time
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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We shall archive this as a disastrous family matter. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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Carrie
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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Carrie, in the end, is not a very serious film, but it is a rarity: a fun diversion that is truly enjoyable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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Silver Streak
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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... an amalgamation of conflicting genres. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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Each person appears to be acting in completely different films, in a drama, or a farce, a portrait or caricature, gesture by gesture, or minute by minute. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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Nickelodeon
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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The film completely lacks rhythm. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
(1975)
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Rene Jordan
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The result is a passionate pamphleteering film, that lamentably is about limited interest and location. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 15, 2023
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The Gumball Rally
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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The Gumball Rally is a perfect film if you watch it with your mind blank. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2023
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The Ritz
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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Rita Moreno traipses over the defiled..,.This, ladies and gentlemen, is an artistic event, that is not often seen in theaters, or on stage: this is creation. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 14, 2023
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Marathon Man
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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... you have to admit its ingredients are well-dosed, in a script that literally works as a puzzle. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 12, 2023
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Burnt Offerings
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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An absorbing and well-realized film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Car Wash
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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It is not a grand film, and it's also not exactly good, but it is an impressive cultural artifact, an unreal doc, at the same time the truth about these actual times. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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The Return of a Man Called Horse
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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Harris struts with fanatic devotion in the middle of this mausoleum, erected with the most transparent and perishable of vanities: the vanity of celluloid. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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The Incredible Sarah
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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As art, it is apologetic, and there is no one dares to defend it, but on its own level of ancient nostalgia and sensibility, it is irresistible. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Midway
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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A project in which it's planning is excellent, but in the big screen doesn't work. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
(1976)
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Rene Jordan
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A pretentious puzzle. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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