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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 origin...

JORGE MARIN
Oct 5, 20192 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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