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Cinema em Cena

Cinema em Cena is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Pablo Villaça.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Pablo Villaça An essential film not only for its immense dramatic power (and it is a formidable work), but for being a tribute to Hind and the more than 20,000 children killed by Israel in the last two years. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) Pablo Villaça It's always a pleasure to see how Hong Sang-soo's impressive productivity doesn't hinder the continued creation of lovely works like this one. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Frankenstein (2025) Pablo Villaça After so many memorable monsters, Guillermo del Toro has finally created an abomination. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Pablo Villaça It's a film of visual excesses and thematic confusion. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Boy (2025) Pablo Villaça It could easily have fallen into ridicule, but it benefits from three important elements: the clever cinematography, the sincerity of its approach, and, above all, the charisma of its hero. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Pablo Villaça Albeit tangentially, it touches on the American obsession with violence, war and the use of brute force as a defining element of the country's temperament throughout history. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Oct 25, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Night Stage (2025) Pablo Villaça It ends in one of the most striking final shots of 2005. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Blue Trail (2025) Pablo Villaça Mascaro points out the hypocrisy of a conservative ideology that, while preaching the importance of Family, does not hesitate to dismantle it. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Pablo Villaça Political awareness exacts a high price on anyone's mental health, but there is something very inspiring in the realization that the perpetuation of the revolutionary spirit represents one of the best legacies we can leave behind [Review in Portuguese]
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Eddington (2025) Pablo Villaça Failing to prioritize character coherence, it seems to opt for chaos and violence not as thematically significant catharsis or as a commentary on historically inevitable trends, but as pure spectacle and as a genre exercise. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman (2025) Pablo Villaça The Superman of 2025 enters the picture in a state of complete vulnerability; after all, we no longer live in a world where kindness, empathy, and altruism go unpunished. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) Pablo Villaça Contrasting Lula and Bolsonaro´s campaign speeches, respectively based on fighting hunger and destroying the infidels, Apocalypse in the Tropics reveals how reason and common sense are no longer enough as a strategy. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Dreams (2024) Pablo Villaça Structurally ambitious, emotionally complex and visually remarkable. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mountainhead (2025) Pablo Villaça It's impossible to ignore how the dystopia portrayed in Mountainhead is already our reality. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Pablo Villaça A masterpiece. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jun 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Pablo Villaça The Phoenician Scheme demonstrates that, when we deal with filmmakers with such a markedly authorial style as Wes Anderson, it becomes practically impossible to analyze each new work as an isolated project. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Pablo Villaça It once again secures its star's position as the ultimate representative of the type of spectacle in which Hollywood has always specialized. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
No Other Land (2024) Pablo Villaça No Other Land is a maddening film that exposes how cruel is the daily life of a people treated as invaders in their own nation. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Small Things Like These (2024) Pablo Villaça The movie knows how patience can be an important virtue in a work like this; it never accelerates its pace for fear of losing the viewer and, thus, it respects the main character´s own pace. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Mickey 17 (2025) Pablo Villaça From Snowpiercer to Parasite, including The Host and Okja (in which another of his concerns – animal abuse – is addressed), Bong Joon Ho uses his political sensitivity as a creative source – something once again evident in Mickey 17. [Portuguese]
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
I'm Still Here (2024) Pablo Villaça It honors Eunice's courage through her determination to not allow the military regime to eliminate her family's love for life or erase the memory of Rubens, turning her smile into defiance and her persistence into a weapon. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Nov 29, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Pablo Villaça Folie à Deux achieves a feat that few sequels – even the worst ones – have accomplished: it makes the original film worse in retrospect. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Oct 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Longlegs (2024) Pablo Villaça The film builds an oppressive atmosphere that keeps the viewer hostage in a universe filled with disappointment, pain and tragedy. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Aug 25, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Alien: Romulus (2024) Pablo Villaça This is the sequel/prequel we´ve been waiting for almost a quarter of a century. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Aug 17, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Road House (2024) Pablo Villaça Road House embraces its own silliness and presents it in a genuine, sincere way, never trying to become something it isn't. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Ferrari (2023) Pablo Villaça Michael Mann's Cinema is populated by men obsessed with their work, whether legal or not; thus, it´s easy to understand why he would be attracted to Enzo Ferrari's story. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 15, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Iron Claw (2023) Pablo Villaça It takes the universe it portrays as seriously as its characters - and any approach other than that would only serve to diminish and ridicule them. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 13, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Pablo Villaça It´s a genre(s) exercise that firmly establishes Rose Glass at the top of the list of great revelations in recent years. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Dune: Part Two (2024) Pablo Villaça The picture doesn´t ignore the Orientalism described by Edward Said in its own approach and how this influences the viewer's perception of the characters no matter how much the film tries to avoid those pitfalls. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 07, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Maestro (2023) Pablo Villaça It´s not like the movie needed to be hostile to Bernstein´s legacy or strive to portray him negatively, but by softening the most problematic aspects of his trajectory it comes close to seeming like an institutional affair. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Priscilla (2023) Pablo Villaça Coppola's approach may generate confusion and even recrimination for not blatantly condemning Elvis; this, however, is a reflection not of a hypothetical indulgence on her part, but of the point of view that guides the movie. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Dec 19, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Toll (2023) Pablo Villaça Unfortunately, as the picture illustrates perfectly, intolerance often ends up proving to be stronger than family and friendship ties, destroying connections that in other circumstances would be the causes of great joy. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Dec 01, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Napoleon (2023) Pablo Villaça The picture fails to do the most important thing: to illuminate why the self-proclaimed Emperor was such a revered figure and what drove his ambitions. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Nov 24, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Pablo Villaça The picture works as character study, historical record, romantic tragedy, thriller, western and, finally, as atonement. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Oct 20, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Barbie (2023) Pablo Villaça Barbie is a small miracle. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Aug 08, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Oppenheimer (2023) Pablo Villaça This movie resembles a nightmare that torments not only the protagonist, but all of humanity. A horror that still lives and that finds a perfect representation in Cillian Murphy's haunted eyes. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Aug 07, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Pablo Villaça Even if it doesn´t live up to the original trilogy (how could it?), this film certainly presents itself as a much more worthy farewell to one of the most iconic characters that Cinema has created than the last one. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jul 04, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Kill Boksoon (2023) Pablo Villaça Jeon Do-yeon´s performance is fantastic; she manages to create a multidimensional character within an absurd framework. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Apr 09, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Pablo Villaça It's impossible not to applaud the audacity in opening the movie with a reference to Lawrence of Arabia and ending it with one to The Warriors, not fearing comparison despite the prejudice with which the genre is seen by many. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Apr 02, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022) Pablo Villaça It may not evoke the weight of the tragedy that it portrays successfully enough for us to suffer for the couple, but it is ambitious enough for us to appreciate the exercise that results from this effort. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 31, 2023  Edit critic review
1/5
The Whale (2022) Pablo Villaça The Whale is indefensible, turning out to be a silly melodrama that views its protagonist with a loathing it tries to present as empathy. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 04, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Pablo Villaça Knock at the Cabin works very well as we watch it, which is a step up from Shyamalan's latest efforts, which usually fell apart in real time. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Mar 03, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Holy Spider (2022) Pablo Villaça Unfortunately, Abbasi's thematic ambitions are constantly sabotaged by the screenplay´s frequent missteps. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Feb 08, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Triangle of Sadness (2022) Pablo Villaça Ruben Östlund is proving himself to be a master at creating discomfort by exposing the hypocrisy of the characters he follows. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Feb 08, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Pablo Villaça Martin McDonagh's humor resides in the wounds of his characters, who, suffering from inflamed emotional wounds, know how to aim precisely at the weak spots of those they want to hurt. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Feb 04, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Tár (2022) Pablo Villaça Blanchett creates one of those performances that transcends the actor who originated it - a rare (and therefore precious) phenomenon. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jan 27, 2023  Edit critic review
1/5
Armageddon Time (2022) Pablo Villaça Mediocre as narrative, juvenile as social message and tremendously middle class in its satisfaction with its own awareness of the evils of the world. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jan 25, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
The Menu (2022) Pablo Villaça Its critical view of the economic elite is one that Cinema, as a politically dynamic Art, reflects with increasing frequency in a reality in which social inequalities become greater and greater. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jan 19, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
The Fabelmans (2022) Pablo Villaça It echoes the exciting feeling of discovering the possibilities of cinema, using it as part of a narrative that mirrors what made Spielberg one of the greatest filmmakers in history. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jan 13, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Pablo Villaça As much as I want to see Johnson explore and expand his talent to other genres and themes, I would not be dissatisfied if he spent the rest of his career creating new mysteries for Benoit Blanc. [Full review in Portuguese]
Posted Jan 04, 2023  Edit critic review
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