La Jornada

La Jornada is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Carlos Bonfil, Leonardo Garcia Tsao, Luis Tovar
Rating Title/Year Author
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) Carlos Bonfil Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio deliver remarkable performances, while Margot Robbie and Bruce Dern complete the great cast. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 26, 2019
L'homme fidèle (2018) Carlos Bonfil It is a very enjoyable comedy with love plots that seems to revive today, with a very vintage stamp, the romantic spirit of the New French Wave. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 19, 2019
() Carlos Bonfil What makes the film stands out is its very peculiar stylistic treatment of domestic drama, a bizarre aesthetic that transforms all emotional expressiveness into an instrument of sadism. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 5, 2019
Double Lives (2018) Carlos Bonfil An interesting study of the deep mutations that new technologies have caused in the human relations field. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 29, 2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) Leonardo Garcia Tsao Bundy deserves a more serious treatment, as the serial killer whose victims are estimated to have reached a hundred. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 29, 2019
Adam (2019) Carlos Bonfil There are not many occasions in which cinema has managed to capture, with such success, all the vitality of a young man who, from his world of silence, can communicate generosity with such eloquence. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 25, 2019
Sorry Angel (2018) Carlos Bonfil Although Christophe Honoré's current film is not at all free of humor and playful playfulness, its underlying theme is serious and at times also touching. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 22, 2019
Dolor y gloria (2019) Carlos Bonfil We'll hardly find in contemporary cinema such a vigorous embodiment of physical pain and existential anxiety, as the one achieved by the character of Salvador Mallo. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 15, 2019
The Wolf House (2018) Carlos Bonfil It's evident the originality of these filmmakers in the Latin American context. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 10, 2019
Killing (Zan) (2018) Carlos Bonfil Elegantly, (Shin'ya) Tsukamoto leaves the door open to interpretations, something that is naturally appropriate for Killing's undeniable condition of a modern classic. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 9, 2019
() Carlos Bonfil The filmmaker Cyril Schäublin proves to be an original and outstanding disciple of his Austrian colleague Ulrich Seidl. His observation of human behaviors follows the same critical line of his master. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 8, 2019
The Raft (2018) Carlos Bonfil A risky and complex film, like the adventure that has inspired it. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 8, 2019
Lemonade (2018) Carlos Bonfil Far from falling into a routine, Romanian cinema continues to deliver very good surprises. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 8, 2019
Sauvage (2018) Carlos Bonfil The director conceives his character as an essentially free man. It's a first original and surprising work. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 3, 2019
Diamantino (2018) Carlos Bonfil A daring and risky comedy, that blends involuntary humor and an extreme malice. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 2, 2019
Tarde para morir joven (2018) Carlos Bonfil The director Dominga Sotomayor works the plot always with discretion and malice. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 1, 2019
The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadic (Kaoticni Zivot Nade Kadic) (2018) Carlos Bonfil The director shows her skills to transmit, in cinematographic terms, the girl's accelerated rhythm and, as an emotional counterpoint, the serenity and devotion of the mother. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 28, 2019
El peluquero romántico (2016) Carlos Bonfil El peluquero romántico is a tribute that the modernity delivers to the best traditions of our cinephilia. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 24, 2019
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Leonardo Garcia Tsao In its two hours of footage he does not get a single moment of authentic, pure and full rock and roll. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 20, 2019
Ahlat Agaci (2018) Carlos Bonfil The very limpid photography of Gökhan Tiryaki and a soundtrack in which Bach dominates, contribute to create this atmosphere of melancholy. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 20, 2019
Roma (2018) Carlos Bonfil In this amazing representation of atmospheres, the work the Production Design team delivers is effective and very innovative. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
() Carlos Bonfil With insolent self-confidence and a good amount of a transgressor humor, the French director gives a new twist to those concepts. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
Fantastic Planet (1973) Carlos Bonfil An outstanding classic of the European animation cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
() Carlos Bonfil An unexpected surprise to close well a very fertile year for those who love Mexican movies. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
Destroyer (2018) Carlos Bonfil It is a conventional thriller, that progressively provides nuances of intense existential drama due to the chameleonic interpretation of Nicole Kidman in the role of Erin Bell. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
At Eternity's Gate (2018) Carlos Bonfil Sometimes some stylistic bets seem unnecessary, but the intention is understood and the risk is appreciated. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
The Favourite (2018) Carlos Bonfil A poisonous comedy for Hollywood's omnivorous appetite. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
Green Book (2018) Carlos Bonfil It is surprising that in such a conventional political proposal there is room to elaborate an effective and very entertaining comedy. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
U: July 22 (Utøya 22. Juli) (2018) Carlos Bonfil His photographic virtuosity, with the camera in hand, suggests the idea of ​​a complete testimonial involvement alongside the victims. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2019
In the Aisles (2018) Carlos Bonfil Before an inexpressible and unreachable reality of moral unrest, Stuber's film offers a breath of freshness and a poetic impulse. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2019
Under the Silver Lake (2018) Carlos Bonfil It is very likely that because of that sharp portrait of a generation with very strong existential contradictions the movie presents through Sam's character... it may become a cult film. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2019
El Ángel (2018) Carlos Bonfil The film has as a first recommendation the wonderful interpretation of Lorenzo Ferro in the leading role. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 14, 2019
The Good Girls (Las niñas bien) (2018) Carlos Bonfil This social atmosphere of generalized discomfort is successfully rescued by the director. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 14, 2019
Burning (2018) Carlos Bonfil For Murakami's regular readers, the film will be a stimulating revelation; for movie lovers, an invitation to venture into the complex intellectual orbit of this great Japanese storyteller. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 14, 2019
Todos lo saben (2018) Carlos Bonfil The most appreciated in this filmmaker is his impeccable handling of intimate atmospheres and his scenic control. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 14, 2019
The Chambermaid (2018) Carlos Bonfil A bold and stimulating first job. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words (2017) Carlos Bonfil Having rescued these elements with discreet application, the documentary María por Callas amply fulfills its best purposes. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
The House by the Sea (2017) Carlos Bonfil The house by the sea is the most skeptical and taciturn work of the director who always showed the greatest social optimism in contemporary French cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
Another Day of Life (2018) Carlos Bonfil The filmmakers propose a laborious and creative strategy that combines documentary film, archive images, animation techniques and interviews with some survivors. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
En guerre (2018) Carlos Bonfil At war has an intelligent work of editing, and a soundtrack that accompanies the dramatic growing of the action. A notable example of the best current European political cinema.[Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
Leto (2018) Carlos Bonfil Filmed in black and white, Leto recovers with scenographic success the gray atmospheres of Leningrad. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
Angelo (2018) Carlos Bonfil In Angelo, the Austrian director explores and seeks to reverse the old myth of the wild, intrinsically good aborigine. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 13, 2019
Netemo sametemo (2018) Carlos Bonfil It seems to be a conventional and light comedy at first, but Asako 1 & 2 shows an ingenious study about the vanity of human passions. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
Capernaum (2018) Carlos Bonfil Capernaum is much more than a reductionist vision about the extreme vulnerability of children in an atmosphere of extreme poverty. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
Us (2019) Leonardo Garcia Tsao Peele's formal expertise has been refined, which suggests that he has been carefully studied those classics he alludes to. However, he needs more discipline to manage his pretensions. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
Sink or Swim (0000) Carlos Bonfil A film like this, so defined by its narrative formulas, does not give the spectator great surprises, but like any movie that has as its starting point an interesting topic, leaves the door wide open for a relevant debate. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
The Dead Don't Die (2019) Leonardo Garcia Tsao The rhythm is slow and the humor is scarce, which it is expected from the author. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
() Leonardo Garcia Tsao There is a lot of music, colors, violence ... and incoherence. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
() Leonardo Garcia Tsao Given Ly's experience in the documentary, his images are loaded with truth and urgency. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019
() Leonardo Garcia Tsao A narrative about how the working class in Ken Loach's country suffers, settled with rigor, sobriety and compassion, above all. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 12, 2019