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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez "The third installment of the adventures of detective Benoit Blanc is more than an anti-Trump allegory: it is a reflection on faith and redemption". [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Bugonia (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez "Yorgos Lanthimos's latest film responds to the pessimistic spirit of the present age with a devastating laugh of black humor". [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Train Dreams (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez "Train Dreams is a serene epic film that follows its protagonist as he travels from one century to the next, while trying to understand the meaning of his life". [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez "In her latest film, Kathryn Bigelow portrays an American establishment that seems ready to face any threat. At least, until it materializes".[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez "It's arguable whether One Battle After Another is the PTA's masterpiece. It's undoubtedly the most urgent and openly political film he's ever made". [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Life of Chuck (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez The Life of Chuck, a thoughtful melodrama based very faithfully on a Stephen King story, addresses life’s big questions by following the trail of a famous Whitman poem.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Keep Quiet (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez "We'll see if Phillips is nominated for this performance early next year". [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Chain Reactions (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez This documentary examines why, 50 years after its release, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre continues to cast a spell on Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Karyn Kusama, Patton Oswalt, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
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Bird (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez "In her latest film, Andrea Arnold creates a narrative universe in which the harsh world of a teenage girl merges with the fantastic". [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
1978 (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez "The final of a World Cup is the background noise of a film where the real horror of the dictatorship's violence blends with the paranormal. [Full review in Spanish]"
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Mexican Dream (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez Magdalena is trying to rebuild her life, picking up the pieces of a failed marriage and the loss of custody of her children. Heartbreaking but hopeful. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez The film doesn't offer much new ground in its plot —an initial twist is more than predictable—but it does offer a touching look at this nuclear family that wants to stay together even though the world is crumbling around them. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Devil's Bath (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez In their fourth feature film, their best to date, Austrian directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz confirm their ability to revitalize the very meaning of horror cinema.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Mickey 17 (2025) Ernesto Diezmartinez Cinema is more than just one frame after another; it can serve as a warning of the world to come. Take Bong Joon-ho's "Mickey 17," for example...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Better Man (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez 2024, which heralded the glorious return of the musical, was one of the worst years for this genre. An exception is the biopic of singer Robbie Williams, with its splendid choreography and interesting plot.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
I'm Still Here (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Walter Salles portrays the horror of the Brazilian dictatorship, while reminding us that happiness is the most sublime form of resistance.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
0/4
Emilia Pérez (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Risky and unconventional, yet exotic and clumsy, “Emilia Pérez” encapsulates director Jacques Audiard’s authorial vision and showcases it at its worst. A disgrace.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Conclave (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez The film works as an entertaining spy thriller set in the corridors of the Vatican, but also as a serene reflection on commitment, power and faith.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Room Next Door (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez The Spanish director's latest film is packed with cinematic references and homages, but it's not just cinema: it's a subversive story of friendship and communion.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Queer (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez In “Queer,” a daring Luca Guadagnino leaves behind any conventional narrative and follows the steps of his protagonist in a trance induced by an addictive drug: cinema.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Piano Lesson (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Malcolm Washington explores the repercussions of his traumatic past on the difficult present of his African American characters in his debut feature, an adaptation of a play by August Wilson.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Gladiator II (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Ridley Scott's film fails not because of its obvious anachronisms and spectacular exaggerations, but because it attempts, amidst all of this, a thematic seriousness.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Coup de Chance (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez In his latest film, Allen remains true to himself and to the themes that have preoccupied him: love, death, chance, and the precariousness of the existing order.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez The documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” presents all the facets, both the most admirable and the less so, of the greatest Man of Steel cinema has ever produced. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Pedro Páramo (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Rodrigo Prieto's film based on Pedro Páramo achieves what its predecessors had tried unsuccessfully: not only to summon the spirits of Comala on the screen, but to transfer the narrative complexity of the novel to the cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Apprentice (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez In his biopic of Donald Trump, director Ali Abbasi manages to show how the egg of the Trumpist snake was hatched, humanizing the character without caricaturing or justifying him.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Challenging and disturbing, the film directed by Jane Schoenbrun portrays a pair of existences lived in the virtual world that unfolds on every screen to which we are connected. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
The Substance (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez In Substance, Coralie Fargeat takes a provocative look at the female body. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rebel Ridge (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Jeremy Saulnier writes and directs this thriller that combines expertly staged action scenes with an intricate plot around police violence and racism in the United States. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Yorgos Lanthimos defiantly returns to his roots in Kinds of Kindness, a lucid film about our worst inner demons. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez The unpublished interviews gathered in this documentary leave no drawer unturned: the actress reviews her private and professional life, her talents for negotiation and the way she bewitched the screen. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez In this documentary Martin Scorsese analyzes the films of the great filmmaking duo Powell & Pressburger to connect them not only with his own work, but with his life itself. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
The Old Oak (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez Ken Loach's cinema has always been transparent in its position regarding the social and economic injustices faced by the working classes of the United Kingdom. He directs what is perhaps his last film, with a hopeful breath. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Crossing (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez In "Crossing", his fourth feature film, Swede Levan Akin maintains a challenging and provocative route by telling a story of searches, encounters and self-discovery.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Great Escaper (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez This is a rather modest and simple drama, but it is one of the most important films of the year: it offers the last opportunity to see two legends of cinema together on the screen.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
We Grown Now (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez In We Grown Now, the transition from childhood to adolescence of two friends is marked by a murder that shakes Chicago in the 90s. A sensitive children's melodrama. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Spermageddon (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Inside Out 2 explores the inner life of its teenage protagonist without showing a single emotion that connects it to Eros. Another animated film, world premiered at Annecy, addresses the same topic without timidity: Spermageddon! [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 01, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez There are moments in Furiosa that remind you that George Miller is capable of making masterpieces. Unfortunately, the fifth installment of the Mad Max saga is far from being one. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Kristen Stewart surprises in this violent and delirious erotic thriller directed by Rose Glass. Great (and sick) fun! [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez With the story of a Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858, director Marco Bellocchio delivers a passionate and outrageous diatribe against the church. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 01, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Scoop (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez Based on the true story of an explosive interview with Prince Andrew of England, "Scoop" is a good film about a group of journalists who question and expose a powerful man. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
One Life (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez Anthony Hopkins plays Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from dying in concentration camps in 1939 and, despite this, does not see himself as someone particularly deserving. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
All of Us Strangers (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez A man in his late 50s meets his parents, who are twenty years younger. Taking up the idea of ​​a novel by the Japanese Taichi Yamada, the British filmmaker Andrew Haigh makes a very personal work. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Dune: Part Two (2024) Ernesto Diezmartinez From self-parody to epic, "Dune, part two", by Denis Villeneuve, contains several possible versions of itself, but none truly great. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Perfect Days (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez In his best film in a long time, the German director returns to his stylistic origins and revisits the city of Tokyo with a discreet and minimalist look. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
The Color Purple (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez The Color Purple is a decaffeinated remake: more militant and careful, but more monotonous and less bold than the version directed by Steven Spielberg in 1985. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) José Homero Truth is one of the great philosophical problems of our time. Justine Triet's film is transcendent because it puts the ambiguity of that concept at its center. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Poor Things (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez Yorgos Lanthimos' most recent film transforms the novel into one that is based on a feminist version of Frankenstein or a joyous and overflowing appropriation of Alice in Wonderland. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 07, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
The Holdovers (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez The protagonists of The Holdover are the type of characters that have populated Payne's previous films: creatures overwhelmed by their social environment, who are not denied the possibility of learning and redemption. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 07, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Wonka (2023) Ernesto Diezmartinez The prequel to the Willy Wonka story, directed by Paul King, captures the magic of Roald Dahl's universe, but not its darkness. Although this is not necessarily a problem. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 16, 2024  Edit critic review
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