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The Platform is an obvious and violent parable
The Platform is a violent and very obvious parable about the capitalist system. However, the way it is presented is more frightening as...

JORGE MARIN
Feb 22, 20202 min read


1917: duty, honor and despair
1917 came, in a way, to supply a shortage of films about the First World War, since the last primary production about the conflict was...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 18, 20202 min read


Portrait of a Lady on Fire: desire and art
Portrait of a Lady on Fire includes itself in that category of films that go beyond the script and acting and is consolidated as a work...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 11, 20202 min read


The Two Popes: mutual provocations
The Two Popes is a movie based on a play by Anthony McCarten, who wrote the script, and spends much of his 125 minutes in dialogues...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 7, 20192 min read


American Industry calls the class warfare into question
American Factory is a 2019 documentary about a GM automobile factory that was shut down in 2008. Six years later, the facility was...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 23, 20192 min read


Monster' Ball: repeated violences
Monster's Ball is an excellent movie about violence, not just the episodic one portrayed in the news, but the intimate violence of each...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 16, 20192 min read


Carnal Knowledge: men who think they desire women
Carnal Knowledge is rightly considered Mike Nichols' best work. It can be said that it is a chronicle that sensitively reflects the...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 9, 20192 min read


Babel: tragic misunderstandings
Babel is not about the separation of peoples due to language diferences, as shown in the biblical account. Director Alejandro Iñárritu...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 2, 20192 min read


The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari: reality twists
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is considered to be a masterpiece of German Expressionism. Filmed in 1920, the action takes place in several...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 26, 20192 min read


Pain and Glory: tender and delicate autobiography
Pain and Glory is one of the most tender and delicate movies by director Pedro Almodóvar. Autobiographical, and with Antonio Banderas as...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 19, 20192 min read


Phantom Thread are shadows of married couples
Phantom Thread is a delicate and crude film at the same time, as it deals with the execution of art, from the artisan weft to the final...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 12, 20192 min read


Joker is not a comic book
Joker is not a movie about comics, like the ones we get used to in the Marvel Universe. Although released to tell the story of the...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 5, 20192 min read


Ad Astra: in search of what science claims does not exist
Set in the "near future," James Gray's Ad Astra can tell a consistent and ambitious story that, despite the slowness of the narrative,...

JORGE MARIN
Sep 28, 20192 min read


The Searchers: epic and beautiful
The Searchers is one of John Ford's most epic and beautiful movies. Winton C. Hooch's magnificent cinematography is already present in...

JORGE MARIN
Sep 21, 20192 min read


Fargo: unique and dern good
Fargo begins with a white canvas, and as the initial credits start to appear, the icy North Dakota landscape arises, with the strange...

JORGE MARIN
Sep 14, 20192 min read


Bacurau: metaphor in different languages
Bacurau is an extraordinary Brazilian movie directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Named for a bird, "not a birdie,"...

JORGE MARIN
Aug 24, 20192 min read


Aguirre: madness and power
Werner Herzog's Wrath of God remains after almost 50 years, one of the scariest movies ever made. But terror comes from the condition of...

JORGE MARIN
Aug 17, 20192 min read


The Barbarian Invasions: everything goes by
The Barbarian Invasions is a 2003 movie that deals in its dialogues with the question of the interpenetration of divergent worlds,...

JORGE MARIN
Aug 10, 20192 min read


Sunrise: cinematic experience of dream
Sunrise is an extraordinary movie. Considered by many to be the best silent film ever, it was the first work of German director F.W....

JORGE MARIN
Aug 3, 20192 min read


Parasite: unlike anything you've ever seen
Parasite is such a fantastic movie that even its comparison with other amazing works can be dangerous. Korean director Bong Joon-ho has...

JORGE MARIN
Jul 27, 20192 min read
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