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Nicolás Medina
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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The Hyperboreans (2024) |
Politics, a Chilean past related to Nazism and a certain irreverence both at the level of text and staging make us lose the perception that everything we are seeing is or has been real, and has been dramatized. [Full review in Spanish] - LatAm Cinema
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
Furiosa is a good movie. It is neither better than Fury Road, nor better than the original Mad Max, and it is admirable how after almost 50 years, and stepping on the 80s, George Miller is able to make a film this big. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024) |
The directors are and their film are much closer than they thought to the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the films of Buster Keaton. And, perhaps, this is the 2001 of these two. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Meanwhile on Earth (2024) |
Within this universe created by Clapin, every single aspect becomes a portal to the depths of the human experience, of our psyche. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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The Roundup: Punishment (2024) |
Action-packed encounters and villains that Lee's character faces as if it were a video game, but, in this case, with a much more effective dose of humor given Lee's character's ignorance and naivety in the face of technology. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Another End (2024) |
We all like to watch these miserable characters tormented by their bad decisions, approaches, their relationship with the AI. And, arguably, the value of the film, is not so much in itself. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Skin in Spring (2024) |
Mainly due to the construction of the character in the script, the movie fails to define it's main charecteridentity completely. Something that, through its mise-en-scene, the film tries to underline without success. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Reas (2024) |
An irreverent dramatization of the prison life of these actresses-turned-characters in a film that moves completely away from the marginal porn-misery that has spread like a disease in recent Latin American cinema. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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All Shall Be Well (2024) |
The film shows with a certain tenderness the consequences of an unexpected loss, where the uncertainty and chaos of the mourning period are exacerbated by delicate and frivolous negotiations. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Sons (2024) |
Möller's direction is outstanding, resorting to a conventional narrative, but maintaining tension and suspense throughout the film. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024) |
A story full of lust, queerness, violence, murder, steroids and irreverence of all kinds. At times it may seem overstimulating, but it is a purely visceral, provocative experience with the essence of a midnight movie. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Architecton (2024) |
Through the juxtaposition of images and sounds, matter comes to life and becomes a character that society constantly mistreats. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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La Cocina (2024) |
With a mise-en-scène loaded with long, one-take shots and intense performances, the film moves away from the obvious to explore a personal and refreshing terrain, turning clichés into a monumental and stimulating satire. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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A Traveler's Needs (2024) |
Hong Sangsoo creates a subtly disconcerting comedy that invites viewers to fill in the blanks. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Dahomey (2024) |
It is a rather weak proposal both in form and content, where its greatest merit is probably the short fictional passages giving voice to one of these treasures. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Pepe (2024) |
It is a story that transcends the anecdotal to delve into the depths of human experience, questioning our preconceived notions about life, death and sense of belonging. [Full review in Spanish] - LatAm Cinema
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| Posted Mar 17, 2024
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Society of the Snow (2023) |
It seems to be, at times, excessively anchored in the inherent strength of its historical base and in the facts that already resonate in our collective conscience. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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I Trust You (2023) |
It defies conventions with subtlety, making it possible for the different devices to converge in a story that, above all, is a folk tale that invites us to position ourselves as active spectators. [Full review in Spanish] - LatAm Cinema
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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The Other Son (2023) |
The search for identity narrated in a palette of grays, as in "Días extraños", is interwoven in this case with the experience of mourning. [Full review in Spanish] - LatAm Cinema
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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El Conde (2023) |
Shows that there is no need to talk about dictatorship or oppressors and tyrants from a serious and condescending point of view. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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Temas Propios (2023) |
It's one of those films that you see less and less of: a family-friendly comedy that is not without human conflict and emotional moments, while also being a very universal coming of age. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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How to Have Sex (2023) |
With a shifting camera, tonal shifts from comedy to drama, and even certain sequences that send shivers through the body, the film tells the story of a young English girl facing the end of her adolescence and the beginning of her adult life. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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Terrestrial Verses (2023) |
A film that oscillates between documentary and fiction, questioning the figure of authority in Iran, a country where the film was shot in secret. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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Goodbye Julia (2023) |
Works first as an essay on secrets, motherhood, and interpersonal relationships, but also as a revolutionary act in itself by Kordofani in the face of the current situation in Sudan. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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Hounds (2023) |
Lazraq takes a twist and proposes a funny and irreverent account of the situation that makes us empathize even more with his characters. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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If Only I Could Hibernate (2023) |
A heartbreaking portrait of an alien and possibly unknown reality of a place in the world with a truly unknown filmography. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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Hopeless (2023) |
Serves as proof of the great achievement of Korean cinema in recent decades as it denounces the underworld life in South Korea, and how many innocent people are forced to enter a life guided by the illegal to survive. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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Only the River Flows (2023) |
Only the River Flows brought noir to French theaters with the story of a detective obsessed with a murder that drives him to madness, while reflecting on the idea of storytelling itself. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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The Breaking Ice (2023) |
The Breaking Ice confirms the ability of the previous winner of the Camera d’Or to build choral, intimate, and personal stories while exploring human relationships, depression, and polyamory. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Jan 07, 2024
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The Delinquents (2023) |
The Delinquents is so hermetic and infatuated with itself that it forgets that giving the viewer a three-hour film implies a certain responsibility for a director, and should be worth every minute the viewer is sitting in that seat. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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The New Boy (2023) |
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy puts on Cate Blanchett’s shoulders a story that wants to talk about so many things but ends up talking about none of them. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Omen (2023) |
Baloji squanders possibly the most appealing idea in Un Certain Regard— and turns it into a pretentious exposition of ideological discourses that have nothing to do in the film or in favor of the story it wants to tell. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Rosalie (2023) |
Stéphanie Di Gusto’s Rosalie commits the sin of making a textbook, indifferent, and repetitive period recreation that rests on its discourse about a dysfunctional woman in a conservative era. - FIPRESCI
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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The Woman from Uruguay (2022) |
What stands out about the movie is the idea of its conception. A film that went through so many hands. And with a tremendous responsibility for the project to work because of what it could mean for the local audiovisual industry. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Asteroid City (2023) |
A dance of emotions and a visual spectacle that ends up shaping the definitive film of its director, in which style and mise-en-scene are at the service of his story more than ever. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
A cinematic explosion and experience, although ironically it can at times implode against itself, mainly because of certain screenplay consequences that end up detracting from one of the most anticipated events of the year. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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The Settlers (2023) |
Los colonos is an oasis in this desert of "statement focused movies". It manages to be, first, a film extremely aware of its form, of its narrative and of what it seeks, despite its strong socio-political charge. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) |
At the end of the day, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny may not be the best installment of Indiana Jones, but it certainly fits perfectly within the saga, committing to its characters and its essence. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Strange Way of Life (2023) |
The reunion between these characters is extremely careful, excessive, but subtle. All this may sound contradictory, but it is because Almodóvar knows perfectly well how to craft his mise-en-scène to tell the best possible story. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Suzume (2022) |
It is a work of art which reflects on the loss of collective memory and the oblivion of the history of places, as well as on the complex relationship between nature and humanity. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Speak No Evil (2022) |
It builds tension and horror from its opening minutes. Christian Tafdrup, needs nothing more than a highly indicative soundtrack and a montage sequence to let us know everything that will happen in less than five minutes. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Belle (2021) |
Hosoda takes an unexpected twist in bringing the tale of Beauty and the Beast into the modern world, exposing all that can lie behind a mere avatar on a social network. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Hustle (2022) |
A perfect combination of drama and humor; and a sense of warmth that is conveyed at every moment. It is an ideal movie to have a good time and even to watch with the family. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Decision to Leave (2022) |
It's admirable how Park Chan-wook states that violence is expressed in different ways. In this case, it will be neither guns, nor blood, but love, which will stain the retinas of the viewers with red. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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The Northman (2022) |
Neither tragedy nor Eggers skimp on violence, screams, sweat, blood and swords, along with ambitious mise en scène, some of the best photography and one of the most epic soundtracks of the year. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Missing (2023) |
Ultimately, this is a truly enjoyable experience for anyone looking for a film that will make them think about theories, debate, or simply gawk at intense and absurd turning points. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Holy Spider (2022) |
Holy Spider is more valuable for what it says than how it says it and will undoubtedly be one of those films that will divide audiences. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Close (2022) |
The film deals with a level of intimacy, care and a subtle camera accompanying two young actors who really bring it all, with themes varying from innocence, bullying, friendship as first love, to guilt and grief. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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R.M.N. (2022) |
With a shaky camera that adds tension to the events that are built up, this film makes the viewer empathize with the characters and, at the same time, not wanting to do so because of the universe that this implies entering. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Corsage (2022) |
It relies on repetitive cinematic resources such as the constant use of general long shots -which many will find "slow"-, and a direction that places too much on its protagonist, who is in absolutely every scene of the film. [Full review in Spanish] - Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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