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Dionar Hidalgo

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Dionar is a Costa Rican film critic who has always been passionate about cinema. He is the voice behind Algo Más Que Cine, where he shares honest and personal reflections on films from all over the world. For him, movies are more than stories—they are mirrors, questions, and sometimes even answers. He enjoys exploring how cinema connects with emotions, culture, and society, always from a place of curiosity and admiration for the art form.

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Palestine 36 (2025) 100% 8/10 EDIT “A sweeping yet intimate historical epic, Palestine 36 revisits the roots of conflict with clarity and restraint. Anchored by strong performances and a humanist gaze, Annemarie Jacir turns history into a necessary act of remembrance.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Captive (2025) 71% 6/10 EDIT “A polished and ambitious historical drama that finds poetry in imagination as survival, but plays it a bit too safe. Elegant, provocative at times, yet oddly restrained for a film about the birth of literary madness.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% 6/10 EDIT “A visually striking and melancholic take on the time-loop premise. Akimoto’s anime finds beauty in repetition and despair, but its thin characterization and rushed emotional turns keep it from fully blooming.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 23% 2/10 EDIT “A dystopian thriller that looks like a warning but plays like propaganda. Mercy borrows the aesthetics of classic sci-fi while quietly endorsing surveillance, police states, and algorithmic justice. Stylish noise, hollow ideas” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Paternal Leave (2025) 7/10 EDIT “A quiet, honest debut that finds emotional power in silences and small gestures. Juli Grabenhenrich is a revelation, and Luca Marinelli brings fragile restraint, even if the film hesitates to fully explore the weight of absent fatherhood.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review She Walks in Darkness (2025) 62% 6/10 EDIT “A restrained and competent infiltration thriller, anchored by a solid lead performance. Díaz Yanes builds tension and historical context, but the film’s didactic tone and shallow psychology keep it from digging deeper into its troubling subject.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review The Piano Accident (2025) 6/10 EDIT “A sharp, abrasive satire of viral fame, elevated by Adèle Exarchopoulos’ deliberately ugly performance. Dupieux provokes and entertains, but the film’s punch fades quickly, leaving more sting than substance.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 8/10 EDIT “A ferocious, human-centered reinvention of the franchise. DaCosta and Garland turn zombies into background noise, letting Fiennes and a terrifying Jack O’Connell explore how language, power, and cruelty truly end the world.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Tank (2025) 6/10 EDIT “'Der Tiger' trades battlefield spectacle for moral decay and existential dread. Claustrophobic and technically impressive, it raises sharp questions about guilt and obedience, but struggles to turn its heavy ideas into compelling drama.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 11, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 6/10 EDIT “A gentle, well-meaning dramedy carried by Brendan Fraser’s warmth. Rental Family touches on loneliness and emotional labor, but its reluctance to dig deeper turns a fascinating premise into a safe, sentimental comfort watch.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 11, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 7/10 EDIT “A warm, crowd-pleasing biopic lifted by Hugh Jackman’s showmanship and, above all, Kate Hudson’s heartfelt performance. Conventional and rushed in its drama, but emotionally anchored by Hudson’s undeniable screen presence.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 30, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% 9/10 EDIT “Relentless and immersive, 2000 Meters to Andriivka turns a short distance into an abyss. Chernov places us inside the war’s physical and emotional toll, stripping combat of heroism and revealing only exhaustion, loss, and uncertainty.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) 100% 8/10 EDIT “A chilling, intimate look at how war is taught before it’s fought. Mr. Nobody Against Putin reveals the classroom as a frontline, where propaganda replaces education and fear quietly shapes the next generation.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% 8/10 EDIT “A chilling, deeply personal essay on how faith mutates into power. Petra Costa exposes Brazil’s evangelical populism as a global warning: democracy doesn’t collapse overnight—it’s slowly preached into oblivion.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 27, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 8/10 EDIT “A rigorous, unsentimental portrait of Seymour Hersh that doubles as a defense of investigative journalism. Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus craft a sober, gripping reminder of why truth still matters in an age of noise.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 6/10 EDIT “A well-acted and sincere family drama elevated by Mirren and Riseborough, but held back by a cautious direction and a predictable script. Kate Winslet shows promise behind the camera, even if Goodbye June plays it too safe.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 26, 2025 Full Review We Shall Not Be Moved (2024) 8/10 EDIT “A powerful debut that turns historical trauma into lived, intimate cinema. Luisa Huertas anchors a film about memory, impunity, and the cost of refusing to forget, rejecting easy forgiveness in favor of uneasy, necessary remembrance.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 26, 2025 Full Review The Storm (2024) 6/10 EDIT “A visually stunning animated film with a confusing but heartfelt core. Its myth-heavy narrative feels culturally distant, yet the father-son bond and bold artistic vision make it an intriguing, if uneven, experience.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 6/10 EDIT “A respectful and intimate portrait of Bruce Springsteen during the making of Nebraska, elevated by Jeremy Allen White’s soulful performance. Honest and restrained, yet too conventional to match the boldness of the album it celebrates.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 3/10 EDIT “A self-aware remake that knows its jokes but never sharpens them. Jack Black and Paul Rudd can’t rescue thin characters, flat satire, or toothless horror. A clever idea strangled by caution and predictability.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 23, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 7/10 EDIT “A glossy, twisty thriller that leans heavily on ’90s erotic noir vibes. Amanda Seyfried steals the show, elevating uneven material. It lacks the boldness of its influences, but delivers guilty-pleasure fun when it finally lets loose.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 5/10 EDIT “A painfully routine sports biopic that wastes an extraordinary life. Despite solid physical work from Sydney Sweeney, Christy relies on tired boxing clichés and domestic abuse tropes, offering little insight into its trailblazing subject.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 21, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 5/10 EDIT “An intriguing but frustrating biblical horror that never commits. Strong ideas and a solid Noah Jupe performance can’t save a tonally confused film where Nicolas Cage feels miscast and ambition collapses into a muddled, forgettable experience.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 21, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 6/10 EDIT “A darker, more serious Knives Out that aims high but lands unevenly. Strong performances, especially Josh O’Connor, can’t fully save an overlong mystery that promises depth on faith and power but settles for clever distraction.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 21, 2025 Full Review She Rides Shotgun (2025) 88% 7/10 EDIT “A gritty modern western powered by a raw father-daughter bond. Taron Egerton is compelling, but Ana Sophia Heger is extraordinary, grounding the violence with real emotional weight and making this adaptation quietly devastating.” – Algo Más Que Cine Dec 21, 2025 Full Review
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