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Review of Redbad (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 25 Oct 2018

A curious film that is a little conventional with its conflicts…

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Review of The Wife (2017)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 18 Oct 2018

The director plays with transcendent aspects of the Bergmanian current, but also with a staging and a structure of a vulgar academicism…

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Review of Slender Man (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 18 Oct 2018

A ready universe for daring and fears, for the adolescent contagion of evil, for the parallels with the unfortunately usual kidnappings and…

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Review of First Man (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 11 Oct 2018

A celebration like the arrival of man on the Moon, narrated with the seriousness of a sad event…

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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 04 Oct 2018

In times of hypertrophy in the extracurricular activities of children, the almost countercultural message of the film is an excellent invitation…

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Review of Scaffolding (2017)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 04 Oct 2018

The films with wise teacher, equilibrist of common sense in a depauperate environment, have been shaped like a classic subgenre…

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Review of Searching (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 27 Sep 2018

Effervescent entertainment with a wild rhythm in which themes as transcendent as adolescent loneliness or sexual abuse are overturned…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 27 Sep 2018

First Reformed is a treatise on remorse, exposed through fixed planes with constant reframing in which frontality predominates…

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Review of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 27 Sep 2018

Wim Wenders gets close to the Pope by pontificating through discourse. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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Review of Girl (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 27 Sep 2018

And it is very striking as something so beautiful, and that naturally invites calm, can be filmed as an action thriller that leads to bewilderment,…

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Review of Chappaquiddick (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 19 Sep 2018

A tonal delirium that grows in the primful direction of Curran, adding pomp to what, at the base, was perhaps only farce. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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Review of La casa di famiglia (2017)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 13 Sep 2018

What stands out most is the complicated fusion of humor and melodrama, especially with the father's interpretation. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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Review of Book Club (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 13 Sep 2018

Despite subjects like the inevitability of aging, Book Club doesn't deserve the presence of its leading ladies. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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Review of Dog Days (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 06 Sep 2018

And although the outcome is about to exceed the barrier of the tear, (almost) always arrives in time a reply, a wink or a joke that moves away…

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Review of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 29 Aug 2018

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies may be nothing more than a joke (a word that is so important in history). But at least it's a good joke…

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Review of Kings (2017)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 29 Aug 2018

Deniz Gamze Erguven illustrates the revolts of 1992 after the Rodney King case with poor quality and unrefined in a film lacking accuracy and…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 26 Aug 2018

The narrative offers a compact account of survival that is never sweet. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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Review of Down a Dark Hall (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 01 Aug 2018

The most interesting part of the show is its base, and its artistic sensibility. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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Review of Overboard (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 26 Jul 2018

However, surprisingly, when it seems that you are doomed to an insufferable comedy with tone and plot of moral fable, it improves…

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Review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 19 Jul 2018

Instead of softening their ridicule, they plunge into it with meritorious parodic self-consciousness. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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