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Selfie
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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One has to recognize that Selfie is fine as it is although. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 14, 2021
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Some Kind of Heaven
(2020)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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David Bolen's spectacular cinematography is the highlight of Some Kind of Heaven. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 09, 2021
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She Dies Tomorrow
(2020)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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There's no doubt that the idea is ingenious... but on screen it doesn't have as much force as it should. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 10, 2020
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A Brief Excursion
(2017)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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All this sounds good, but what appears on the screen does not arouse any interest. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 04, 2020
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The Occupant
(2020)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The lack of narrative control is evident from the beginning. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 31, 2020
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The Platform
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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That ending doesn't make sense and that's what knocks down all of The Platform's virtues. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 24, 2020
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Uncut Gems
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Possibly one of the most annoying movies I've seen in recent years. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2020
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The Lighthouse
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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As he demonstrated in The Witch, [Robert] Eggers is a very talented director. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 13, 2020
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Atlantics
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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This idea is moderately interesting, but it has hardly any strength. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 03, 2019
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I Lost My Body
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Unfortunately, the protagonist's story is full of clichés and the narrative arc is predictable and conventional. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 02, 2019
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Greener Grass
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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[Greener Grass] might have been funny on paper, but it dosn't work on the screen and even ends up being irritating. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 22, 2019
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One Child Nation
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The film drowns in its own dispersion. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Extra Ordinary
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Stands out for its ingenious humor and originality. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 18, 2019
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Parasite
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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There's no doubt that the idea is interesting and brings about ingenious and really funny scenes. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 25, 2019
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Diamantino
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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I applaud risky exercises like this. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 05, 2019
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Gaza
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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A mosaic of stories that offer a personal and intimate vision of the place. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 12, 2019
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Blind Spot
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Has interesting ideas... but its development is excessively confusing. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 06, 2019
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Booksmart
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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A conventional story that attempts to distinguish itself from similar products through a banal accumulation of excesses, provocations, artifice and extravagances. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 26, 2019
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U: July 22 (Utøya 22. Juli)
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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You have to take your hat off to Martin Otterbeck's cinematography and Andrea Berntzen's performance. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 19, 2019
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Hamada
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Satisfactory on an emotional and empathic level, unsatisfactory in contextual and didactic terms. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 15, 2019
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The problem is that Desiree Akhavan and the screenwriter Cecilia Frugiuele... do not seem too interested in investigating the complex relationship between sexuality and identity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 11, 2019
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Mid90s
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Has enough interesting ingredients so that its wheels don't stop spinning. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 24, 2019
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The aesthetic is prioritized to the detriment of the narrative. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 21, 2019
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Arctic
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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A good example of the famous [phrase] "less is more"... with a good performance from Mads Mikkelsen. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2019
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The most devoted of the genre will accuse Joe Berlinger of achieving something unheard of: creating a film about a serial killer that is not scary. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 08, 2019
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Guava Island
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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It is quite paradoxical that something that wants to be anti-capitalist has "product placement" everywhere. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 22, 2019
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Pain and Glory
(2019)
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Jordi Campeny
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Banderas produces a virtuouso performance, probably the best of his career. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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Tumbbad
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The development is so basic at a conceptual level that one quickly loses interest. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 14, 2019
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Pity
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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There is no doubt that [Pity] is an interesting proposal, but it's not for everyone. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 01, 2019
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Paris Is Us
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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It seems that [director Elisabeth] Vogler has confused visual language with cinematographic language. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 25, 2019
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Paddleton
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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A tremendously authentic film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 25, 2019
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Capernaum
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Capernaum seems to punish the parents' behavior more than the miserable situation in which they are immersed. The latter is a defect to be taken into account, but it does not tarnish what the film achieves emotionally. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2019
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High Flying Bird
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Netflix and Steven Soderbergh shoot a triple. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 08, 2019
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Velvet Buzzsaw
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Make no mistake, Velvet Buzzsaw is an absolute disaster. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 04, 2019
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Fyre Fraud
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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In general, it's a scattered documentary whose title simply seeks to parasitize Netflix. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 22, 2019
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Fyre
(2019)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Its greatest merit is that it not only reports on the disaster, but also talks about the power of appearances and social networks and how they can build an image that in many cases has little to do with reality. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 22, 2019
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The Favourite
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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There are certain suggestive symbolisms, but the duration is not directly proportional to the level of depth that it reaches. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 18, 2019
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24 Weeks
(2016)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The final message and the method of transmitting it confirms that the objective of this proposal is to defend an idea; What is left over is the movie's disguise. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 15, 2019
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Volcano
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The metaphors it uses to develop its theme are Volcano's highlights, supported by Vadim Ilkov's wonderful photography. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 09, 2019
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Under the Silver Lake
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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A tasteless Pynchon smoothie for the "postmodern" audience. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 03, 2019
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The Green Fog
(2017)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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There's no doubt that fans of Maddin's work will appreciate it more, but the spectators with a taste for experimentation will be able to approach and enjoy it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 19, 2018
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History of Love (Zgodovina ljubezni)
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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I have no doubt that it is one of the best films that has been made about loss and mourning. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 05, 2018
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The Guilty
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Unfortunately, The Guilty has several aspects that turn its back on plausibility. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 29, 2018
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The Goose
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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[The Goose] ends up being... oblique in every way. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 26, 2018
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Cam
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Although the idea raised by [director] Daniel Goldhaber may be interesting, the development is disastrous. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 16, 2018
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Dogman
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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Dogman's main problem is that it requires a leap of faith on the part of the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 12, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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More than a film it resembles an audiovisual assertion and... does not bring anything new to the subject, beyond emphasizing the prejudices and narrow-mindedness of certain individuals, something that everyone already knows. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 31, 2018
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Mandy
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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The audiovisual section is interesting and Nicolas Cage is acceptable, but this is not enough to compensate for the amount of excesses, whims and inconsistencies that the story presents. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Burning
(2018)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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[Director Lee] Chang-dong ... very intelligently expands the transcendence and depth of the story. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 19, 2018
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One Cut of the Dead
(2017)
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Jaime Fa de Lucas
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A great little discovery. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 17, 2018
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