El Pais (Spain)

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Rating Title/Year Author
Girlfight (2000) Ángel Fernández-Santos [Michelle Rodríguez] brings gravity and energy. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Mar 24, 2021
Clueless (1995) Augusto Martínez Torres Clueless is a boring film... [with] a bland and blonde protagonist. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Mar 16, 2021
Beginning (2020) Elsa Fernández-Santos A tough and challenging film in which the camera stands as the soul and mirror of a battered life. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Identifying Features (2020) Javier Ocaña A hopeless trip into horror. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Feb 9, 2021
Song Without a Name (2019) Elsa Fernández-Santos What Melina León pursues is not nostalgia but forgetfulness and, inspired by the ethnographic beauty of the indigenous songs and rites of Ayacucho, she places her character in that lost valley that rises and falls every day. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jan 26, 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Elsa Fernández-Santos Although the film is rather tedious in its center, it is worth the wait. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Dec 22, 2020
The Joy Luck Club (1993) Augusto Martínez Torres Wayne Wang ranks among the best filmmakers of his generation with this highly complex and near-perfect adaptation of Amy Tan's debut novel. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Howard the Duck (1986) Octavi Marti George Lucas, who is one of the kings of fairy tale fads, seems to have lost his ingenuousness or the ability to simulate it. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Nuevo Orden (2020) Camila Osorio New Order reflects the anxieties of the elite rather than the incentives of a social movement. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Nov 4, 2020
Dating the Enemy (1996) Fernando Morales Truly trivial. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Nov 4, 2020
Antebellum (2020) Javier Ocaña Antebellum does not seek reconciliation, but rather to start revolutionary action. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 4, 2020
Color Out of Space (2019) Elsa Fernández-Santos A chaotic and apocalyptic vision that all the same draws us in. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 31, 2020
Papicha (2019) Elsa Fernández-Santos Meddour beautifully guides the viewer across the disconcerted emotions. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 31, 2020
Nekrotronic (2018) Elsa Fernández-Santos A funny and familiar film. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
The Secret Garden (2020) Javier Ocaña Without conveying the component of serene nobility that bitterness can have, and that sadness never possesses, the film doesn't quite reach the heights that it should. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Zombi Child (2019) Elsa Fernández-Santos A provocative and emotive way to look at stories of the past. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Little Monsters (2019) Javier Ocaña Little Monsters veers closer to a yawn. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
The Windermere Children (2020) Javier Ocaña The film is better when viewed as a family film rather than a drama. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
() Elsa Fernández-Santos Melancholic and bittersweet, the film resounds its themes of pain. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Irresistible (2020) Javier Ocaña The more grotesque the film tries to be, the worse off it is. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Javier Ocaña With A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Marielle Heller has created an interesting filmography centered on the way she films stories of serious gravity. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Rosa's Wedding (2020) Javier Ocaña Just like life itself, Rosa's Wedding is precious, fun, aggravating, absurd, diabolically terrifying and happy. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Chemical Hearts (2020) Elsa Fernández-Santos An unsustainable film designed to only be consumed by fans of influencers. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
The New Mutants (2020) Javier Ocaña The movie is far from instilling any sort of fear. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Abou Leila (2019) Javier Ocaña Abou Leila is more atmospheric than narrative, but something about it invites you to keep watching. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Unknown Origins (2020) Elsa Fernández-Santos Despite its best intentions, Unknown Origins is too unfocused and trying to nail too many stories down at once. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 30, 2020
Tenet (2020) Javier Ocaña There is no emotional root to concern yourself with beyond the visual force of the images. [Full Reviews in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 26, 2020
Shrew's Nest (2014) Jordi Costa An energetic debut. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 19, 2020
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Fernando Morales Mediocre. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 3, 2020
Los Lobos (2019) Elsa Fernández-Santos Los Lobos covers a lurid and humiliating reality that Samuel Kishi resists to dehumanize. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 31, 2020
That's Life! (1986) Ángel Fernández-Santos The short script lacks originality, but the abilities of the director and actor allow it to stay afloat. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 25, 2020
Trial on the Road (1971) Ángel Fernández-Santos This film marks the birth of a genius filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 25, 2020
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Ángel Fernández-Santos It's a passionate minor movie where the image is the simple support of a powerful story. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 25, 2020
Hellraiser (1987) Ángel Fernández-Santos More than with terror, the movie plays with revulsion. And that is its (relative) novelty. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 25, 2020
Brightness (1987) Ángel Fernández-Santos A simple and beautiful story about the long initiation journey of a young prince. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 25, 2020
Two English Girls (1971) Ángel Luis Inurria This is one of the films that most embodies Truffaut's obsessions, and it is a true exercise in style. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 24, 2020
Deadly Friend (1986) Ángel Luis Inurria The closed ending is unconvincing and distorts the promising tone of the beginning. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 24, 2020
Il Camorrista (1986) Ángel Luis Inurria It manages to entertain even though it feels like we've seen this before. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 24, 2020
Maurice (1987) Octavi Marti Maurice is a repetitive and slow film. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 23, 2020
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987) El Pais Staff Rita, Sue and Bob Too feels both fresh and new, and it's significant in the genesis of the new British cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 23, 2020
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Antonio Lara Gremlins 2 might have been a better movie if it followed the old Hollywood notion of ingenuity over abundance in special effects. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 23, 2020
A Flame In My Heart (Une flamme dans mon coeur) (1989) Ángel Luis Inurria The honest script universalizes in a woman physical love as a vital necessity. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 22, 2020
A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Ángel Luis Inurria Mickey Rourke's performance is key in buying the story, whose gestures and look are prolonged in his peculiar Irish intonation and accent. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 22, 2020
The Retaliator (1987) Ángel Luis Inurria Despite its 90 minute run-time and the existence of multiple bursts of gunshots, the interest doesn't increase as the movie advances toward its predictable ending. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 22, 2020
Da 5 Bloods (2020) Carlos Boyero One of the silliest and most pretentious movies I've had to endure in the past few years. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 18, 2020
Day of the Dead (1985) Ángel Luis Inurria Less successful than its predecessors... Day of the Dead can work as an example of voyeuristic masochism. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2020
() Ángel Luis Inurria The love story of Claudia and Cornelio is as gratuitous as it is absurd. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2020
The Last Emperor (1987) Ángel Luis Inurria Brilliant and intimate. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2020
The Sicilian (1987) Octavi Marti Not since Midnight Express had a film premiered where a certain Anglo-Saxon arrogance was so evident. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2020
Masters of the Universe (1987) Ángel Luis Inurria The movie, whose only contribution to the genre is its recreation of famous characters, goes by unnoticed in front of our eyes without even provoking outright rejection. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 16, 2020