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3.5/5
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La Grazia
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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...we are faced with a strikingly empathetic and even somewhat conventional film, to the point that the faithful devotees of [Paolo Sorrentino's] more delirious works might even feel a little disappointed by so much classicism. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3/5
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La Grazia
(2025)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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Political decisions are personal, Sorrentino seems to be saying, and he has made a film that is more of a humanizing portrait of an older man...than a political X-ray. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3.5/5
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Perhaps it's too pretentious as a product for mass consumption or too banal as a critique of the state of affairs, but Project Hail Mary is a spectacular film in the best sense of the word. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3/5
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Truly Naked
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...the film comes across as somewhat clumsy, chaotic, and superficial in some parts, but it is the innocent, tender, and sensitive relationship that gradually develops between Alec and Nina...that sustains and redeems Truly Naked. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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3/5
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Shelter
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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And, while Shelter doesn't have the same virtuosity or the same vibe as the John Wick saga, it fulfills its essential objectives, premises, and goals. No one should expect anything truly disruptive or even remotely innovative. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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4/5
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Ghost Elephants
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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As always, Herzog shows great respect for the indigenous peoples and finds excellent supporting characters in Xui, Xui Dawid, and Kobus, three locals who are masters at tracking animals. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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2.5/5
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War Machine
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Beyond the fact that the music is indeed grandiose and epic, there's a certain dryness in the protagonist and the supporting characters...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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3.5/5
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Climactic and melancholic like the entire series, Immortal Man gradually builds in intensity...with several action scenes, but also through a human dimension that allows it to reach a rather epic and emotional ending. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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2/5
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...Gyllenhaal's film aims for the hoard of cinephile references, for vertigo and shock value, but its punk and feminist ode ends up being a chaotic hodgepodge, more spectacular in its packaging than substantial in its content. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 07, 2026
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3.5/5
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Calle Málaga
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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It is, at times, a film with some demagogic and predictable elements, but also a fairy tale told with conviction, sincerity, and talent. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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3/5
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Playa de Lobos
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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...everything hinges on the acting duel...to carry a solid dramatic engine built on sharp dialogue and elements that are not only comedic but also worthy of a Hitchcockian thriller...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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4/5
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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While the description may initially sound a bit convoluted and even forced, Daniel Chong constructs an agile, fluid, and endearing story...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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4.5/5
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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If any of you are fans of Elvis, rock, and concert films, do yourselves a favor and rush to one of the remaining screenings of EPiC: you'll have an unforgettable, and yes, EPiC, experience...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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4.5/5
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Sad Girlz
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...the film's success lies in the chemistry, the unbreakable bond between these two girls who support each other even through the saddest, most distressing, and most challenging moments they will face. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 01, 2026
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2/5
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Not even the tensions, estrangements, and subsequent reunions...manage to give a minimum of emotion, depth, or substance to Scream 7, which seems to have sunk to the lowest depths of the franchise and the genre. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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4/5
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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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Charming and melancholic, lyrical and endearing, enchanting and somewhat sad at the same time, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is one of those films that offers multiple layers of interpretation...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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4/5
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The Loneliest Man in Town
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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The result is a small, tender, honest, proudly vintage film, at times even funny (without ever descending into pathos or mocking the protagonist), and in its own way—even in its restraint and austerity—deeply moving. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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1.5/5
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Rosebush Pruning
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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The tone [of the film] is one of constant emphasis, over-explanation, and provocation without substance. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 23, 2026
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1.5/5
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Josephine
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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The problem is that the violence is not only intrinsic to the act the girl witnesses, but also to the film's mise-en-scène itself. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 23, 2026
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4/5
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Neighboring Sounds
(2012)
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Diego Batlle
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A real discovery of the new wave of Brazilian cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 23, 2026
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4/5
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Pictures of Ghosts
(2023)
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Diego Batlle
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A film that is beautiful, sad, and deeply moving all at once. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 23, 2026
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3.5/5
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Chronicles from the Siege
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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The film is narrated with raw intensity, using a lot of handheld camera work, with an intensity, starkness, and visceral quality that are deeply moving. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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5/5
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My Wife Cries
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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My Wife Cries is perhaps Schanelec's most emotional film, and it is a tribute to cinema and mise-en-scène, a testament to the fact that it is through the perfect shot that one can traverse the complexity of emotions. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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The River Train
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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There's something timeless about the film, as if Milo's misadventures could unfold in the present day but also in some uncertain moment of the past...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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2.5/5
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Strangers in the Park
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Strangers in the Park is a generational comedy without big gags, a story without much nuance or subtlety that is easy to follow and elicits a few occasional smiles (I doubt they'll turn into belly laughs). [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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2.5/5
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Keeper
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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The fact that Maslany does her job well, that the director manages to create a couple of genuinely terrifying moments...doesn't redeem the film from a rather frustrating final result. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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3.5/5
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Prosecution
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...while it functions effectively as a genre film, it also serves as a powerful indictment of neo-Nazi ideology...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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4/5
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Wax & Gold
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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Wax & Gold reflects on the history and present of Ethiopia through a decidedly Bourdieusian lens... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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3.5/5
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Light Pillar
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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After several short and medium-length films, Xu Zao crafts a climactic, evocative, beautiful, lyrical, and simultaneously unsettling feature film in Light Pillar...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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4.5/5
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Everything Else Is Noise
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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Everything Else Is Noise is not only a tremendously funny film, but also a work about cinema, about sound, about music, about female roles, and about masculinity.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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Forest Up in the Mountain
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Urgent, visceral, analytical, essayistic, with one foot in the present and the other in history, Up in the Mountains is a film that, even more so in the current context of Argentina, the world... is both a rarity and a necessity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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3/5
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Iván & Hadoum
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...Laurent Cantet's debut film treads somewhat predictable paths, but it does so with sincerity and even a certain restraint and asceticism. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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4/5
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The Red Hangar
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...The Red Hangar becomes an implacable, devastating, yet intelligent look at this one-man war, navigating all kinds of adversity to avoid the torture and cold-blooded executions that prevailed during those macabre hours. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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2.5/5
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The Weight
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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The Weight works by strictly adhering to the structure of escape films, although it fails to develop a truly ensemble portrait or flesh out the characters who travel with the protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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2.5/5
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Queen at Sea
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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Hammer attempts to introduce some profound issues, such as the role of institutions in caregiving, or the concept of consent; however, it fails to navigate the complexity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3.5/5
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Rose
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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Set in early 17th-century Germany and rendered in luminous black and white, Rose emerges through the disciplined precision of its framing. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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2.5/5
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The Moment
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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What results is not so much a tension between reality and fiction, but between cinema and audiovisual media. And in that context, the eminently cinematic actors are the best thing about the film. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3/5
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Yellow Letters
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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While at times the film seems overly burdened with its accumulation of misfortunes...Çatak more than compensates for this through the two extraordinary performances by Özgü Namal and Tansu Biçer...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3/5
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In A Whisper
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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... In A Whisper reaches its best moments when it focuses on the most intimate and in many cases tender relationships between the characters...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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4/5
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Barbara Forever
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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Barbara Forever stands on its own merits and is a remarkable work of archival research, editing, and exposition that transcends the mere framework of a tribute (which it also is). [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3/5
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Only Rebels Win
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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While the story may initially sound somewhat simplistic and Manichean, Arbid keeps it far removed from heroic epics, moralizing pronouncements, and emotional manipulation, offering a rather austere perspective. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3.5/5
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans
(2026)
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Violeta Kovacsics
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At its core, there is something distinctly jazz-like in the way Gee portrays his subject. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 16, 2026
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2.5/5
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Wuthering Heights
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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This 2026 Wuthering Heights [adaption] tries to be everything at once: classic and (post) modern, faithful and innovative, but it doesn't delve deeply into any aspect. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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3.5/5
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Crime 101
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...even with its excesses and self-indulgence, its overreaching ambitions for what is essentially a thriller with a noir feel, Crime 101 has undeniable appeal...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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3.5/5
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Queen of Chess
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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The archival footage is excellent, the testimonies of the entire Polgár family and several chess experts are valuable, and the editing is impeccable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 09, 2026
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3.5/5
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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It may not be a particularly profound, unsettling, or provocative psychological study, but there's something about its fluidity and lightness that... is ultimately enjoyable and appreciated. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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Sweet Home Alabama
(2002)
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Diego Batlle
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...[Reese Witherspoon's] presence on screen is one of the main attractions of this barely convincing revival of the basic formulas of the romance novel. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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2.5/5
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It Would Be Night in Caracas
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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... It Would Be Night in Caracas ends up being more of a cathartic and denunciatory film than an artistically surprising and profound one. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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2/5
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Diego Batlle
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[James L. Brooks's return]...is, in principle, cause for celebration, especially with a story for which he clearly had free rein and welcome creative freedom, but the artistic result is as flawed as it is ultimately frustrating. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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2.5/5
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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Diego Batlle
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...this sequel doesn't go beyond what many films and series designed for direct consumption on streaming platforms offer and achieve. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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