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La Estatuilla

La Estatuilla is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ricardo Gallegos.

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Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) Ricardo Gallegos Its message of resistance is one that everyone can learn from. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
The Encampments (2025) Ricardo Gallegos By documenting this protest and all that it entailed, The Encampments gradually transforms into a microcosm that explains the impunity with which Israel has perpetrated genocide in Gaza. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Natchez (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Through the ideological contrast between these figures and without being didactic, Pablo Proenza's editing brilliantly exposes the ingrained racism that exists in the white American people. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Ricardo Gallegos An honest and unswerving direction avoids exploitation, eradicates any possibility of misinterpretation of the facts, and transforms Hind's voice into an unavoidable call to action. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Happy Birthday (2025) Ricardo Gallegos It's a coming-of-age story that does justice to the genre in a powerful and transformative way. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Ricardo Gallegos It's a dysfunctional thriller and an unnecessary film whose humanity is quickly diluted in the service of an alarming militaristic discourse. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Peacock (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Putting together this existential comic puzzle is the always brilliant Albrecht Schuch , who navigates all these roles in a funny and enigmatic way, but also with a touch of pathos and sweetness. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Twits (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Surprisingly, The Twits manages to find stability by expanding the novel's ideas of evil into a political allegory against hate. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Flush (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Everything gets tiresome quickly due to an inorganic structure that makes the film seem like a collection of sketches. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) Ricardo Gallegos It's a fun thriller, with a good dose of tension, and a comfortable running time, whose sins are compensated by Keira Knightley's dedication and intensity. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Yes, The Smashing Machine manages to break away from the genre's clichés, but it does so with little emotion and even less cohesion. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Night Always Comes (2025) Ricardo Gallegos A film that takes strong ideas about economic disparity and, in typical Netflix fashion, processes them into a conventional narrative whose only aspiration is to make you hold your breath for a few minutes. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Transcending Dimensions (2025) Ricardo Gallegos A film as diffuse as it is fascinating, which far from pressuring you to understand its puzzling story, invites you to embark on a stimulating sensory journey. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Ricardo Gallegos An extremely funny sequel that deserves to have lots of theaters full of people laughing. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Sham (2025) Ricardo Gallegos One is left with the feeling that Miike's crude direction detracts from the complexity of a case that had much more to offer. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Aug 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Stuntman (2024) Ricardo Gallegos A captivating and excellently acted film that opts for the dramatic to communicate a mixed, sometimes conflicted message that exposes a concern for modern Hong Kong cinema without romanticizing its problems. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
ChaO (2025) Ricardo Gallegos On a storytelling level, ChaO has ideas that should have stayed in the past, but, on a visual level, it has ideas that look to the future. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Forbidden City (2025) Ricardo Gallegos The Forbidden City is a varied and well-balanced dish that celebrates Rome's diversity, entertains in spades, introduces us to a new star in Yaxi Liu, and even has the luxury of subverting the martial arts movie formula. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Rewrite (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Together, Ueda and Matsui manage to make Rewrite a brilliant, exciting and almost perfect film. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Dog of God (2025) Ricardo Gallegos The superb rotoscoped animation lends a twisted beauty to the feast of on-screen perversions. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Ricardo Gallegos By suggesting that goodness, a characteristic that has always defined Superman, could well be considered punk in this cynical world we live in, Gunn gives us a fresh story that makes good use of the character's nature. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Jurassic World: Rebirth lacks emotion and is fairly predictable, but the reality is that, for many, that doesn't matter at all. Here we come to see dinosaurs and humans trying to survive them. Gareth Edwards delivers exactly that. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Lesbian Space Princess (2025) Ricardo Gallegos That punk spirit of its production is reflected in a rebellious film that, with a lot of creativity, heart and joy, imposes its own rules and traces its own paths. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Ricardo Gallegos We are complex and vast beings containing a galaxy of emotions, ideas, longings and memories. With great sincerity, Chuck's Life helps us understand and celebrate this. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Runa Simi (2025) Ricardo Gallegos A deeply moving testimony that cinema, in addition to entertain, has the incredible capacity to awaken in audiences the will to change the world. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Endless Cookie (2025) Ricardo Gallegos This narrative form makes Endless Cookie a unique cinematic creature that meanders between characters, places and stories in a chaotic, yet somehow quite realistic manner. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Maya, Give Me a Title (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Gondry makes it clear that nothing can replace the human heart. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Had it had a stronger set-up, Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning could have been an absolute classic, but what we have is exceptional by any measure. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted May 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Caravan (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Caravan manages to address these ideas sensitively, without romanticizing its characters or falling into either misery or morbidity. And the driving force is always a magnificent Aňa Geislerová... [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) Ricardo Gallegos An immersive and risky film, also somewhat chameleonic and voyeuristic, that illustrates the impossibility of reconciliation with the colonial past. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted May 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Great Arch (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Stéphane Demoustier delivers a biopic that subverts the grandeur of a historical monument to remind us of the power that the merciless capitalist machine commands over art. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted May 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Does Not Exist (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Using a bold animated style, the film depicts the complex nature of activism: its contradictions, its goodness, the desperate need to embrace it, and the importance of understanding its limits. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted May 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Spare My Bones, Coyote! (2025) Ricardo Gallegos In addition to generating intimacy with his subjects and capturing powerful and inspiring moments and images, Jonah Malak plays with the form to elevate the documentary and its subject matter. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted May 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Every day is a gift, and to see Gibson transform the prospect of death into art, love, and authentic life is transcendental. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Eva Aridjis Fuentes not only gives Q a face, but pays tribute to her talent and reveals a transcendental story full of humanity and love that exposes the social obstacles the industry has imposed on artists of color for decades. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Yalla Parkour (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Yalla Parkour works when it focuses on the right people and their acts of resilience. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Better Man (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Better Man is the best musical of this decade so far. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 08, 2025  Edit critic review
We Believe You (2025) Ricardo Gallegos Every element is aligned to create a powerful exploration of the shortcomings of the legal system... [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Hysteria (2025) Ricardo Gallegos The fact that it is so easy to mirror what Büyükatalay portrays with a real case (Jacques Audiard's racist Emilia Perez) speaks to his excellent direction and understanding of the subject. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Death by Numbers (2024) Ricardo Gallegos An excellent short film that finds a way to capture the horrors caused by the lack of gun control policies in the United States while at the same time celebrating the resilience and courage of its subject. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Through László Tóth, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold highlight the importance of fighting to keep art alive in the face of the corrosive nature of capitalism. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Slijepcevic places this dilemma in the midst of ethnic cleansing, but its power is timeless and universal. [Full Review in ]
Posted Feb 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Khartoum (2025) Ricardo Gallegos The directors use their own creative narrative language to celebrate the country and make it clear that the spirit of the Sudanese people is more alive than ever. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Feb 01, 2025  Edit critic review
From Ground Zero (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Creation emerges as a resilient and creative tool to raise their voices, fight against this indifference, and keep hope alive. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Flow (2024) Ricardo Gallegos With sensitivity and outstanding technical prowess, Gints Zilbalodis demonstrates the infinite language that the medium of animation provides to move us, but also to connect us with other species and, perhaps, to stop seeing them as inferiors beings.
Posted Jan 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Colors Within (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Naoko Yamada's wonderful new film is a coming-of-age that is simple in appearance, but whose enriching sensibility is aimed at conveying the transcendent nature of art, particularly music. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Hollywoodgate (2023) Ricardo Gallegos While the depth of Hollywoodgate is limited by its very nature, the footage Nash'at shows us is of immense value... [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 21, 2024  Edit critic review
No Other Land (2024) Ricardo Gallegos In "No Other Land" we see how documentary filmmaking becomes a necessity, a way to show the world what the media, the vast majority of which are allied with Israel, are covering up. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Queens of Drama (2024) Ricardo Gallegos Queens of Drama is pure fun: an explosion of color, camp, and music (I was humming “Pas Touche” for days). [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 29, 2024  Edit critic review
Body Odyssey (2023) Ricardo Gallegos An unusual body horror film that sets aside its story to take you on an introspective, erotic and somewhat surreal ride. [Full Review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 29, 2024  Edit critic review
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