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Hamnet (2025) Carlos Boyero The film comes off as pretentious and empty. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 23, 2026Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Arco 's greatest strength lies in its many ideas...but also in its doses of tenderness, its moving final act, and a script that avoids falling into a simplistic hero-versus-villain narrative. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 23, 2026Edit critic review
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos ...a family adventure film that once again evokes the youth cinema of the eighties, but with its own unique imagery that, along with the release of Arco, offers an alternative to the rather uninspiring current family films. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 23, 2026Edit critic review
El Mal (2025) Javier Ocaña Bajo Ulloa...directs with a steady hand and visual force a morbid thriller of enormous daring...which in the second half of its runtime includes images that are almost unbearable, even when (relatively) off-screen.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 17, 2026Edit critic review
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos This dreamlike landscape is sometimes confusing, and, as in the desert itself, it's easy to get lost; but its visual beauty and underlying emotion allow one to navigate it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 16, 2026Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos [Rose Byrne's] commitment is absolute, but above all, her incredibly difficult take of madness is neither flashy nor self-indulgent. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 16, 2026Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Javier Ocaña The endless cycle of zombie films seems to have no end, and The Bone Temple could be its paradigm: a film that seemed to be dying halfway through, but which revives like the most ferocious of the infected. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 16, 2026Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Carlos Boyero It's a matter of taste. But the French New Wave looks and sounds good. Period. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Javier Ocaña A visual and textual poetics of enormous ambition, it sometimes moves the viewer and at other times simply burdens them, but it is always bold. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos The film serves as a vehicle for [Hugh Jackman] to shine, and especially for Kate Hudson...However, their efforts are diluted in a clumsy and characterless whole where the personal drama and the musical adventure never quite mesh. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Javier Ocaña ...with its gentle, calm, and at times poignant tone, and through a superb ensemble cast, Hikari has created a beautiful film with a strange warmth. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
Rondallas (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos [Rondallas] proposes a zigzag between smiles and tears, which it pursues (and largely achieves) through characters who play on stereotypes but offer their own personalities and nuances. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 02, 2026Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Javier Ocaña Mischievous cinema for playful viewers. Unrestrained. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 02, 2026Edit critic review
Homo Argentum (2025) Carlos Boyero [Guillermo Francella] overcame the difficult challenge of making so many different people feel believable, funny, pathetic, or hateful. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 29, 2025Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Father, Mother, Sister, Brother resonates deeply because, in its apparent lack of pretension, it possesses more wisdom and respect for its characters than most films that shout their intentions at us. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 29, 2025Edit critic review
Ariel (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos With a creative freedom that floods the screen with gestures typical of absurdist theater, but also of street theater and popular culture, Ariel moves with lightness and humor through an almost unreal Atlantic haze. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 29, 2025Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Javier Ocaña ...Winslet never forces sentimentality, maintains a distance in the most raw moments, and entrusts her film to its greatest strength: a group of extraordinary performers...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 29, 2025Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Carlos Boyero I don't know how audiences unfamiliar with Camus's novel will react to this film. I found it simply interesting. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 19, 2025Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Javier Ocaña Fire and Ash is more of the same (superficial spirituality, praise of family, colorful environmentalism, denunciation of colonialism), with even more advanced technologies, and just as exaggerated as ever. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 19, 2025Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Javier Ocaña It's a bit too long, with some unnecessary narrative mannerisms, but fundamentally effective. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 19, 2025Edit critic review
Keeper (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Between wooden walls and large windows, Perkins crafts a tale that straddles reality and a folk horror fantasy, as delirious as it is unsettling. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 19, 2025Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos With its warm autumnal hues, A Private Life is entertaining and ironic, and allows Foster to do more than just showcase her enviable French. A far cry from Hollywood, it's also a pleasure to watch. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 19, 2025Edit critic review
Balearic (2025) Javier Ocaña Balearic could (in fact, it should) be a furious and brutal film. However, it's just pointless. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 12, 2025Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Kontinental '25 is a film made urgently and with limited resources, a condition that amplifies its moral and political force, but all its ideas (and there are many) are summarized in the essence of that quote. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 12, 2025Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Carlos Boyero ...[Clint Bentley] possesses style, visual sense, credibility, and the atmosphere to tell this emotional story. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 12, 2025Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Javier Ocaña Roofman stands out for the number of social, political, and cultural elements associated with the real case, for the outlandish attitudes of the characters, and for the overall vibrancy of its settings...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 12, 2025Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos With the same free spirit as his protagonist, Gabriel Mascaro constructs a story that blurs the lines between reality and fiction, presenting old age as a headlong flight where everything is new and possible. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 12, 2025Edit critic review
Being Eddie (2025) Eneko Ruiz Jimenez ...Being Eddie is yet another means of degrading the documentary genre, failing to develop an interesting character despite having one right there...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 11, 2025Edit critic review
Golpes (2025) Javier Ocaña It is a writer's film, but also a director's, with contributions to visual language that reveal an artist who refuses to settle for merely illustrating stories. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 05, 2025Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Javier Ocaña In the vein of a dramedy, Jay Kelly is far more adept at drama and emotion than laughter. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 05, 2025Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Carlos Boyero That psychologically charged and anguished material, as narrated by Joachim Trier, doesn't mesmerize me; it doesn't convey the emotion and complexity it aims to transmit. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 05, 2025Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Both supporting actors, especially Turner, are the funniest thing about a film whose vintage feel...remains superficial and ultimately becomes cloying, particularly when Eternity 's most ingenious ideas begin to feel repetitive. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 05, 2025Edit critic review
Flores para Antonio (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos It is a reckoning between daughter and father through love and memory, an exercise that succeeds thanks to this honesty and the innate charisma of Lola Flores's eldest granddaughter. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 04, 2025Edit critic review
Singular (2025) Javier Ocaña The trial-and-error technique may make perfect sense in science, but applied to film, or at least to this Singular, it has no dramatic or narrative justification whatsoever. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 04, 2025Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Nuremberg offers an effective approach to the historic trial of the Nazi leadership after the end of World War II...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 02, 2025Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Carlos Boyero There's not a single moment of respite for the viewer, and toward the end, I experienced physical reactions within myself. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 02, 2025Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Javier Ocaña In a role far removed from his physical and acting abilities, Ethan Hawke is moving as Hart. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 02, 2025Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Javier Ocaña ...after a first third of blatant rip-offs and a somewhat more authentic second segment, [the film] succumbs to a ludicrous final act. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2025Edit critic review
Alpha (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Although excess is part of [the film's] vision, Ducournau's penchant for visual sensationalism fails to find its purpose this time, and the film disintegrates like the bodies in his story. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2025Edit critic review
Sleepless City (2025) Carlos Boyero I understand that the sociological values ​​highlighted in some documentaries and films are fundamental for certain viewers... I feel distant and not at all moved by this very testimony. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2025Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos The chemistry between Erivo and Grande is a key factor in the success of the first film, a success that continues in the second. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2025Edit critic review
Dreams (2024) Javier Ocaña ...a work devoid of any visual capacity or cinematic language, illustrating a saccharine story, explicit to the point of exasperation...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2025Edit critic review
Todos los Lados de la Cama (2025) Javier Ocaña Despite its unevenness, the film seems competent enough to attempt another box-office hit, although this time the applause feels more nostalgic than enthusiastic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 21, 2025Edit critic review
Belén (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos Fonzi and Paredes, actresses and screenwriters, demonstrate once again the fruits of their collaborative work. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 15, 2025Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Javier Ocaña What [the film] does have is hollow showiness and a kind of grating, in-your-face intensity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 15, 2025Edit critic review
Urchin (2025) Carlos Boyero This film has its own language, avoids clichés, and has an atmosphere as depressing as the story it tells. It's strange, curious, and has personality. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 15, 2025Edit critic review
Rust (2024) Elsa Fernández-Santos The Western genre doesn't need so much cartographic detail, and the film jumps from one town to another exhibiting a supposed historical rigor that ultimately becomes dizzying. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2025Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Elsa Fernández-Santos ...Elordi's performance, the sadness and loneliness he conveys, is the heart of a film that grows in its second act, when the creature finally speaks. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2025Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Javier Ocaña ...Berger's images and sounds...always rise well above the lack of substance in what's being told. Perhaps it was the only way to illustrate (and salvage) such a fragile material...[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 03, 2025Edit critic review
Los Tigres (2025) Carlos Boyero Los Tigres may not be Alberto Rodríguez's best film, but he's still in top form. He knows how to tell stories and capture emotions. He has a powerful style. He's a consistently reliable director. One to watch. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 03, 2025Edit critic review
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