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Sirāt
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...Laxe concludes his story in an immersive way, supported by Mauro Herce's almost documentary-like photography, Kangding Ray's insistent music, and the sound...creating an environment that is both attractive and threatening. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...Park gives in to temptation to make an excessively slapstick comedy. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Ultimately, Trier concludes that art—in this case, film—is a liberating agent that reconciles the various elements involved. The fact that the viewer is deeply moved by Sentimental Value is proof enough of this. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Undoubtedly, die-hard cinephiles will enjoy Nouvelle Vague far more than those unfamiliar with the glories of the French New Wave. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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The film is meticulous and convincing in establishing the musician's sources of inspiration...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Suffice it to say that the film is a moving meditation on life itself—its joys, its sorrows, and its conclusion, too. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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As is his custom, the filmmaker uses his macabre sense of humor in the most terrifying moments...There's also gory violence to please the fanboys in one of the most complete horror packages seen in recent memory. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Materialists
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...It might seem like [Celine] Song has sold out to the industry, but don't be fooled. The truth is, Materialists isn't a comedy but a romantic drama with a sense of humor and irony. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...racing films that have turned themselves into cult objects...have only sent me into a long yawn. And I'm afraid F1 is no exception. Especially when the track is littered with those obstacles called clichés. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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Charlatan
(2020)
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Carlos Bonfil
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In an era like the present, where new authoritarian powers...attack in turn against uncomfortable scientific research, against wokism or any sexual discord, a film like Charlatan reveals great political significance. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 28, 2025
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Parthenope
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...[Paolo Sorrentino] ventures here...to position himself as a radical iconoclast. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 19, 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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The Ballad of Wallis Island speaks poignantly of missed opportunities, of perhaps wrong decisions, of the reconciling magic of music, and it does so without an ounce of sentimentality. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 19, 2025
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Grand Tour
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[Miguel Gomes] surprises us once again with his formal inventiveness. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 05, 2025
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L'immensità
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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For Clara [(Penelope Cruz)], music is a source of personal liberation; it's clear that for Emanuele Crialese, cinema has been as well. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 28, 2025
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Armand
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...the narrative is impeccable, and the creation of suspense and a closed-in atmosphere recalls a notable recent film, The Teachers' Lounge (2023) by Turkish-German director Ilker Catak. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 28, 2025
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Sinners
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...Sinners tells its fantastical story by adhering to the conventions of both genres while simultaneously subverting them. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 28, 2025
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Black Dog
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...an emotional and intimate film, loaded with biting commentary on the harsh realities of contemporary China. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 21, 2025
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Warfare
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...what Garland and Mendoza have done is do away with all information they consider superfluous. Thus, there is no character development... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 21, 2025
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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The idea of a reluctant vampire refusing to bite its victims isn't original... And certainly Louise-Seize and her co-writer Christine Doyon fail to come up with any new or clever variations on the premise... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 21, 2025
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The Devil's Bath
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[In The Devil's Bath] the filmmakers fall into predictable psychological clichés...However, these clichés do not constitute a burden for a story that flows impeccably and concentrates, more successfully, on more sordid matters. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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Dead Man's Switch
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...Adriana Paz imbues her character with nuances of complex expressiveness...that allows us to evoke Arcelia Ramírez's stupendous performance in a similar situation in Teodora Mihai's La Civil (2021). [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 24, 2025
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...Soderbergh keeps the interest alive with dynamic staging, the thrilling editing by Mary Ann Bernard,... and an impeccable cast. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 24, 2025
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Presence
(2024)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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With the skilled cinematography of Peter Andrews,...[Steven Soderbergh] creates an atmosphere that, in effect, seems otherworldly, making the film a refined exercise in style. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 24, 2025
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...[Mickey 17] is enjoyable for its clever and playful handling of the freedoms allowed by the fantasy genre...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 17, 2025
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The Bikeriders
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Everything in the story points to a nostalgic tribute, a sort of twilight requiem, to a culture of motorized social outcasts now in decline. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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The Bikeriders
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...Nichols has made the equivalent of Goodfellas (1990) with the sound of engines and the smell of gasoline, accompanied by a constant stream of good rock and roll. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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Youth (Spring)
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...what the documentary captures, in its narrative mosaic, is an entrepreneurial and ambitious spirit in the workers, very much in tune with the frenzy of performance and profit of their bosses. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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Dream Scenario
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...an openly fantastic narrative, with elements of horror cinema and dystopian parable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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The White Guard
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Ernesto Pardo...offers here a remarkable record of these places, once peaceful, now turned into ghost towns. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
(2024)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Rasoulof takes his time...in a sometimes repetitive narrative. But he achieves the most important things with eloquence. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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Emilia Pérez
(2024)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...the film may seem absurd and implausible, but the strange thing is that it works as a fantasy...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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Red Shoes
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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A vigorous and tender story, likely with a meteoric rise in the commercial theaters. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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Flow
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...not only is the virtuosity of the artistic animation...admirable, but so is its moral relevance in times of distress. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 03, 2025
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No Other Land
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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...in short, [the film documents] the will to force men, women and children into a total scarcity of services, pushing them into despair and forced to voluntarily abandon...their own territory and that of their ancestors. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 24, 2025
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September 5
(2024)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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...an effective thriller in a well-executed dramatic bet. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 24, 2025
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I'm Still Here
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Fernanda Torres brilliantly and irrefutably plays [the transformation of Eunice], making it both effective and emotional. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 18, 2025
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Kenya
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Everything [in the film] is expressed without much fanfare, with somewhat or a lot of sentimental rhetoric, and with spontaneous and powerful sincerity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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Civil War
(2024)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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A clearer stance would have made [the film] more controversial...and thus, more interesting. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2025
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Challengers
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[The] stylistic approach to aesthetic glamour, the immaculate surface, and the mystique of individual effort, push aside what could have been a more complex and exciting romantic story. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2025
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20 Days in Mariupol
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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20 Days in Mariupol is the most heartbreaking and urgent thing you can see now...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2025
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Bad Actor
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Regarding the abusive generalization of a feminist response to gender violence, Bad Actor could generate an uncomfortable and counterproductive controversy for the director. A bad calculation. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2025
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The Mother and the Whore
(1973)
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Carlos Bonfil
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This iconic film of the post French New Wave era is a reflection of the libertarian spirit of the May 1968 student protests, and also a disillusioned acknowledgment of their failure. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2025
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The Punishment
(2022)
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Carlos Bonfil
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By gradually entering and concentrating, the director and his screenwriter, the Spanish Coral Cruz, on the feminine issue, the film reaches a remarkable level of dramatic expression with superb performances and final dialogues. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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The Promised Land
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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The story is conventional, but at no time does it give off the stench of the old-fashioned. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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The Taste of Things
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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For any foodie,...The Taste of Things is a must-see film...Anyone interested in cinema itself will find it to be a feast for the senses. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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La Chimera
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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[Alice Rohrwacher] handles with vigor this bittersweet and semi-fantastic tale of lust and frustration...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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The Teachers' Lounge
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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The Teachers' Lounge describes the double moral standard of intolerance and of a political correctness that while questioning it, paradoxically ends up prolonging it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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American Fiction
(2023)
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Leonardo Garcia Tsao
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Jefferson has achieved that rarity: a social satire with heart, combining social criticism with family melodrama...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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All of Us Strangers
(2023)
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Carlos Bonfil
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Andrew Haigh has woven...a fascinating story about the missed opportunities in every loving communication and the possibility of healing, through tolerance and forgiveness, wounds that are difficult to close. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
(2024)
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Carlos Bonfil
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In times when state misogyny has ceased to be an exclusive characteristic of authoritarian countries dominated by religious fundamentalism...Mohammad Rasoulof's excellent film is a premonitory warning. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 10, 2025
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