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Juror #2: between guilt and conviction
Juror # 2 , which rumours suggest may be Clint Eastwood's final directed film, expresses discontent with how justice is carried out in...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 182 min read


I'm Still Here is contained and devastating
I’m Still Here is not an easy film to watch, given the anguish it evokes and the helplessness it exposes. However, it is mandatory,...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 232 min read


There's something sad about Aftersun
There is something sad and unsettling about Aftersun, Charlotte Wells' simple debut movie. The presence of a camcorder and the absence of...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 24, 20242 min read


Killers of the Flower Moon is magnificent
Watching the release of a cinematic masterpiece is an indescribable thrill, and when a director like Martin Scorsese signs it, it's like...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 1, 20242 min read


Argentina, 1985 is a nation dramatically returning to democracy
As if it were a documentary of the time, Argentina, 1985 brings a reconstruction of the country’s scenario in photography with an aspect...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 15, 20232 min read


The Whale is the very weight of existing
The Whale is a disturbing, suffocating film set in a dimly lit environment. One of the reasons for this invitation to anguish is the...

JORGE MARIN
May 2, 20232 min read


The Irishman: family father and murderer
"No good movie is too long," said Roger Ebert, the greatest film critic ever. And this can be proven in The Irishman , Martin Scorsese's...

JORGE MARIN
Feb 22, 20232 min read


The Phantom Carriage is an unavoidable curse
The Phantom Carriage is a 1921 silent movie that impresses with its consistency, soundtrack, regular use of flashbacks - a technique...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 29, 20222 min read


Uncut Gems is a constant chaos
Uncut Gems is an asphyxiating movie with a quick narrative, overlapping dialogues and always surprising approach. There is no way to...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 3, 20222 min read


Jojo Rabbit just wants to become a good nazi
Jojo Rabbit (Roman Griffin Davis) is a ten-year-old boy who lives in Germany in the late years of World War II. Therefore, it is...

JORGE MARIN
Sep 11, 20222 min read


The Worst Person in the World is the sweetest
The Worst Person in the World is a dramedy directed with brilliance and extreme sensitivity by the Norwegian Joachim Trier. In the...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 26, 20222 min read


The Power of Dog is as real as the roles we play
Whenever we go to the movies, we know beforehand that we will see a story where actors and actresses interpret situations that simulate...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 20, 20212 min read


Minari: taking roots
Minari is a beautiful film as any human life can be, but, as what happens with everyone else, dreams don’t always work out as they...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 24, 20212 min read


Nomadland are the rejects of hypocritical meritocracy
Nomadland , Chloé Zhao's movie based on the book of the same name written by American journalist Jessica Bruder, unfolds as if it were a...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 17, 20212 min read


The Father charms and frightens
My father is a disturbing film and an unprecedented interaction for many people who go to the movies. By "breaking the fourth wall," a...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 10, 20212 min read


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 Lighthouse is a nightmare
The Lighthouse is a nightmare. Horror movie can often be the result of a lifetime of two in isolation. Director Robert Eggers captures...

JORGE MARIN
Jan 4, 20202 min read


Fight Club is a clear prophecy
Fight Club is a visceral movie that can not be analyzed literally, as if the violence that is seen there is only that of a bunch of...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 21, 20192 min read


As influenced as any ordinary woman
A Woman Under the Influence is a masterpiece of John Cassavetes and presents a woman who, so influenced by the people around her, can be...

JORGE MARIN
Dec 14, 20192 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


Once Upon a Time... In a Tarantino movie
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood was directed by Quentin Tarantino, but it is not a "Tarantino movie." It's better than that: great...

JORGE MARIN
Nov 30, 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


Man With a Movie Camera: unrivaled visual experience
Man With a Movie Camera is one of the most revolutionary visual experiences ever made in the form of film. Director Dziga Vertov sought...

JORGE MARIN
Sep 7, 20192 min read


Marriage Story: that things you never talk about
The thread of a Wedding Story seems to be divorce, but what director Noah Baumbach reveals is a glimpse of real-life in a relationship...

JORGE MARIN
Aug 31, 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
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