La Nación (Costa Rica)

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Rating Title/Year Author
() William Venegas [Dos Fridas] has minor flaws, of course, but it possesses virtues that give it an artistic dignity. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Oct 21, 2019
1/5 Gemini Man (2019) William Venegas Gemini Man takes on a certain moralizing tone that is not believable. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Oct 14, 2019
5/5 Joker (2019) William Venegas The filmic language that one can break down has an unambiguous achievement: to give the film the code of a classic epic and avoid the banality of a meaningless comic. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Oct 7, 2019
1/5 Rambo: Last Blood (2019) William Venegas Sylvester Stallone's terrible acting is in line with the deplorable tone of the film. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Oct 1, 2019
Abominable (2019) William Venegas We will remember the poetic moments of the film for a long time, because it's when Abominable knows how to behave as if it was a dream. A familiar and highly recommended movie. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 30, 2019
3/5 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) William Venegas This movie is not a thriller. It is more akin to a drama... Therefore, there's more value in subjectivity, the internal world of the characters, than in the objectivity of the actions. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 30, 2019
5/5 Ad Astra (2019) William Venegas With an intelligent script... this film manages to be a masterpiece. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 24, 2019
3/5 Crawl (2019) William Venegas Crawl moves and moves us in a classical fashion like a survival film. That is why actions are more important than words. The suspense is generated from shot to shot, from scene to scene. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 23, 2019
1/5 Yesterday (2019) William Venegas Danny Boyle clumsily stumbles on something even clumsier: the useless script from Richard Curtis. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 17, 2019
2/5 () William Venegas The basic problem of Te presento a mi novio... is the weakness of its script, which errs on the side of shallow. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 13, 2019
2/5 The Red Sea Diving Resort (2018) William Venegas Even though it's an action film, it errs on the side of having an academic style. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 12, 2019
3/5 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) William Venegas Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is worth watching because... there's a terror that represents a certain humanism that combines social realism with a gloomy iconography. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 12, 2019
4/5 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) William Venegas The good performances respond to the good character design, which is important in the mix of fantasy and reality. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 12, 2019
2/5 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) William Venegas Despite its defects, I can recommend you to watch the movie with your family. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 12, 2019
1/5 Angel Has Fallen (2019) William Venegas The thing is that this film doesn't understand that telling stories is more serious and complex than it seems. Meaning, the movie doesn't know how to do it and I don't intend to recommend it. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 12, 2019
1/5 It: Chapter Two (2019) William Venegas It Chapter Two is literally a joke. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Sep 12, 2019
2/5 () William Venegas The narrative is unstructured. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 13, 2019
5/5 The Realm (El reino) (2018) William Venegas [A] film of conceptual acuity. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 12, 2019
1/5 Greta (2018) William Venegas As a director, Neil Jordan fails to structure the film's gradual suspense. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 6, 2019
2/5 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) William Venegas Lacks narrative coherence. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Aug 5, 2019
3/5 Hotel Mumbai (2018) William Venegas The truth is that the cinematographic language of this film is quite well managed. This, of course, includes the action. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 31, 2019
3/5 Madame (2017) William Venegas Without being an excellent film, I recommend this new story. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 29, 2019
Apollo 11 (2019) Lysalex Hernández A. an excellent opportunity to look at the past and dream about what man or woman can do in the not too distant future. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 29, 2019
5/5 U: July 22 (Utøya 22. Juli) (2018) William Venegas This film must be seen. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 23, 2019
1/5 The Lion King (2019) William Venegas Nothing more than a "copy and paste"... of the 1994 version directed by Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers.[Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 22, 2019
1/5 Stuber (2019) William Venegas Everything is predictable. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 17, 2019
3/5 Dolor y gloria (2019) William Venegas A delightful performance on the part of Penelope Cruz. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 15, 2019
1/5 Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) William Venegas Both the [film's] pseudo-plot and its characters proceed without rhyme or reason, like headless chickens. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 8, 2019
1/5 Annabelle Comes Home (2019) William Venegas A film without personality. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jul 1, 2019
4/5 Toy Story 4 (2019) William Venegas A film that must be seen. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 24, 2019
2/5 Always Be My Maybe (2019) William Venegas The direction... is quite ordinary. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 24, 2019
3/5 Hormigas (El despertar de las hormigas) (2019) William Venegas [Hormigas] improves a lot when actress Daniella Valenciano takes possession of her character. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2019
3/5 () William Venegas Milena Picado's good performance is one El Calor Después de la Lluvia's strong points. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 17, 2019
2/5 Dark Phoenix (2019) William Venegas Dark Phoenix is a predigested or chewed film. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 11, 2019
4/5 The Weasel's Tale (El cuento de las comadrejas) (2019) William Venegas Absolutely delectable. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 11, 2019
3/5 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) William Venegas Its flaws are hidden within the good narrative dynamism that makes the film entertaining. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 3, 2019
4/5 Rocketman (2019) William Venegas The choreographies work well as a counterpoint to what seeks to be historical reconstruction. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Jun 3, 2019
3/5 Aladdin (2019) William Venegas [Director Guy Ritchie] changes his best known style of filmmaking... with a brilliant visual style. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 28, 2019
2/5 Apego (2019) William Venegas The dialogues' superficiality don't lead to anything. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 28, 2019
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) William Venegas In short, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is good action cinema with filtered humor, of own art and with well entertained moments. [Full Review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 27, 2019
3/5 The Wandering Earth (2019) William Venegas [An] opportunity to see something different from Chinese cinema. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 20, 2019
2/5 John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019) William Venegas Distant from the previous film in quality, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is a predictable film. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 20, 2019
5/5 Cold War (2018) William Venegas Cold War is a necessary breath of fresh air. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 13, 2019
2/5 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) William Venegas I don't doubt... that the fans will have a better time watching the movie than me. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 13, 2019
2/5 Ghost House (2017) William Venegas The film fills with simple solutions for difficult situations. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 6, 2019
3/5 Ben Is Back (2018) William Venegas We must praise [the film's] restraint and emotional balance. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted May 6, 2019
3/5 Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben (2017) William Venegas One feels that the director has managed to make something as difficult and complex as structuring a comedy, even -if I allow the heresy- with Marxist tones (I mean Groucho Marx) easy. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Apr 30, 2019
5/5 Avengers: Endgame (2019) William Venegas The film designs its moments wel. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Apr 30, 2019
1/5 The Curse of La Llorona (2019) William Venegas The Curse of La Llorona is an expendable film. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Apr 23, 2019
1/5 After (2019) William Venegas I endured [the film until the end only because of professional duty. [Full review in Spanish] EDIT
Posted Apr 15, 2019