Movie reviews. All about the best films of many directors, as well as my vision and criticism of the actors' performances.
Carlos Areces is not about playing the classic heartthrob, it is clear. But he is an actor who has been winning over us, achieving a strange sophistication for his marginal performances. Carlos Areces has always played parallel roles in complementary roles. Until he achieves that notoriety that has even elevated him lately to...
Miguel Herran has been boring me lately with his raised eyebrows. A gesture that is equally useful to be surprised, to fall in love or to despair, depending on the plot. And then the credibility most closely linked to the character decomposes at a forced pace. It already started...
If Tom Wolfe raised his head... (he would hit the stone, the joke ended). I don't know how it would feel for him to find his book made into a series on Netflix. Because Wolfe was a unique guy. Impeccable in his White look, like an angel fallen to hell without barely touching the terroir that…
How the woman who took care of the injured writer in her house was doing. I am referring to the nurse from Misery, the novel by Stephen King. The more than possible tortuous relationship between the idol and the admirer, when they end up getting to know each other in greater depth. The strange moment when…
A Netflix movie about Valentina (Aitana) being very cool. And her neighbor, an agoraphobic slob with the pretense of an inventor, stalks her in search of luck, after a disconcerting encounter that places them at the antipodes of eroticism. Because like Alaska, Aitana can also fall in love with…
That movie... 12 Monkeys... with Bruce Willis visiting what was left of the world after the catastrophe. The strange integration of wildness and civilization as coexisting worlds in parallel universes. In 12 monkeys the animals appeared roaming freely through the desolate cities, converted into paradise for...
An hour and a half of film that starts like that mythical day of fury of Michael Douglas or perhaps even evoking Brad Pitt and Edward Norton's Fight Club. The issue is that gradual anger, in a fine crescendo that captivates us with the latent claim that…
At times I find it cloying. And yet Ben Aflleck is a career that makes him a reference actor for films that rarely can aspire to the Oscar but that achieve good box offices. One of the clearest exponents of the most commercial cinema. Someone to turn to…
It's been a long time since that amazing film (even more surprising for narrow and reactionary minds) from Brokeback Mountain. We'll talk about her later. The point is that beyond having grown up in the world of cinema, thanks to his director father and screenwriter mother, roles like Brokeback...
Little by little, friend Quim is transformed into the Iberian Adam Sandler. Which is both good and bad, depending on how you see it. Because that ensures many roles, work in comic films or series. The bad part is the difficult unlabeling of the comic actor…
Spanish cinema has a perfect wardrobe in Eduardo Noriega. Eduardo is a guy who can do everything and for everything. A chameleon capable of dazzling and ultimately leading us to the dark side of whatever plot is presented to us. Because some of his best…
Unless one day it becomes known that Paul Mescal is related to some renowned director, producer or whatever (I was already disappointed with Nicolas Cage thinking that he was there for nothing more than his performances), we find ourselves before the prototypical actor of school that ends up playing…