Always Good Movies
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Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Filipe Freitas
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
In Front of Your Face (2021)
Despite the lightness of the storytelling, the core is heavyhearted, and there's even room for doubt and ambiguity as well as dream and illusion.
Posted Jan 31, 2022
2
3/5
Procession (2021)
Greene's documentary might have done a nice job in helping these traumatized men, but the film itself flows heavily...
Posted Jan 31, 2022
3
4/5
A Hero (2022)
A shattering experience that doesn't stint on uncomfortable scenes.
Posted Jan 31, 2022
4
4/5
Memoria (2021)
An original piece of cinema that, keenly shot and oddly paced, rewards patient viewers with an openness to the intangible.
Posted Jan 31, 2022
5
2/5
Cyrano (2022)
Sadly, the film is never as good as it should be, lacking energy to thrive and being stretched out by these terrible musical moments.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
6
4/5
Ninjababy (2021)
An observant, punchy and highly amusing comedy drama whose result is neither dull nor hackneyed.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
7
3/5
I Was a Simple Man (2021)
Honest enough to deserve a peek.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
8
2/5
Digger (2020)
A mediocre movie with a stubbornly resistant message.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
9
4.5/5
Azor (2021)
It's one of the year's most cohesive films, and it holds up to repeated viewings.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
10
3/5
The Whaler Boy (2020)
Skating between wry social drama and coming-of-age delirium, this drama... depicts a tough reality with a few ultimate brushes of surrealism.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
11
3/5
The Tender Bar (2021)
Even with its unsurprising plot oscillating continuously, the result is an optimistic and sympathetic film made stronger by an irresistibly gleaming 1970s soundtrack.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
12
3.5/5
The Lost Daughter (2021)
A psychological drama that deals with motherhood, depression, and life choices.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
13
2/5
It's an unpassionate, conventional and timid work, which I'm not prepared to forgive.
Posted Jan 15, 2022
14
4/5
Luzzu (2021)
Reflects the bitter change of times, the progressive loss of tradition, and the rampant viciousness of capitalism in a dehumanizing atmosphere that will leave no one indifferent.
Posted Jan 15, 2022
15
2.5/5
The Novice (2021)
A somewhat sardonic and unsentimental take on obsession and mental disturbance that initially magnetizes and then drops us midway.
Posted Jan 15, 2022
16
3/5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Although basic, the whole can be pretty entertaining as a result of a certain magical candor and a few funny lines.
Posted Jan 15, 2022
17
2/5
Antlers (2021)
We have seen this too many times before to be frightened.
Posted Jan 15, 2022
18
4.5/5
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
At once wonderful and exasperating; a demented and beautiful delight shaped with risk-taking boldness and considerable maturation in the proceedings.
Posted Jan 8, 2022
19
2.5/5
Licorice Pizza (2021)
It's one of those cases where the intentions are awesome and the result disjointed.
Posted Jan 8, 2022
20
4/5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
21
1.5/5
Being the Ricardos (2021)
Sadly, every single attempt to create cheekiness and irreverence came off flat and out of place.
Posted Jan 8, 2022
22
4/5
C'mon C'mon (2021)
Mills tells something genuine and meaningful in a quiet heart-tugger made irresistible by naturalistic performances.
Posted Dec 31, 2021
23
2/5
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Press the button and... erased forever!
Posted Dec 31, 2021
24
4/5
Petite Maman (2021)
Rarely a sharp-eyed depiction of a mourning period takes the form of an exceptionally tender experience.
Posted Dec 31, 2021
25
3.5/5
The result, despite the ups and downs, is touching; wonderfully bittersweet.
Posted Dec 31, 2021
26
4/5
Yearning and confident, funny and sad, this is a film that deftly combines the tender and the fierce of life.
Posted Dec 31, 2021
27
4/5
Balloon (Qiqiu) (2019)
It becomes strangely moving during the peacefully elegiac third act, and it's beauty, unpretentiousness and message should be enough to appeal beyond its art house niche.
Posted Dec 24, 2021
28
3/5
Well patented here is his penchant for projecting women to the center of a story while directing them with real affection.
Posted Dec 24, 2021
29
3.5/5
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The film boasts an amazing cast with A-listers, an intriguing energy and alluring visuals.
Posted Dec 24, 2021
30
4.5/5
The Rescue (2021)
31
1/5
Don't Look Up (2021)
What Carl Sagan would say? Don't waste your time seeing this mess.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
32
4/5
Red Rocket (2021)
33
2.5/5
West Side Story (2021)
Spielberg's West Side Story didn't thrill me, and I'm still wondering why this half-hearted, unimaginative film was even made in the first place.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
34
4/5
I'm Your Man (2021)
A wonderfully bizarre sci-fi rom-com with a polished aesthetic, some architecturally interesting settings, lovely performances, and tragicomic undertones.
Posted Dec 13, 2021
35
3/5
Belfast (2021)
36
4.5/5
Drive My Car (2021)
An incredibly subtle example of cinematic virtuosity and poetry.
Posted Dec 13, 2021
37
3/5
Son of Monarchs (2021)
This is not a stressful watching but a contained, introspective experience that stresses issues like social identity and trauma.
Posted Dec 13, 2021
38
3.5/5
Brilliantly composed, it finds beauty as well as ugliness in this part of Mexico.
Posted Dec 13, 2021
39
4/5
Nitram (2022)
Top-notch performances from Landry Jones and Judy Davis.
Posted Dec 4, 2021
40
3/5
The Humans (2021)
Even not packing a gut-punch, the film tickles then pinches, advancing confidently toward a satisfying conclusion.
Posted Dec 4, 2021
41
2/5
House of Gucci (2021)
There's something wrong in the cinematic design of House of Gucci.
Posted Dec 4, 2021
42
3.5/5
A Cop Movie (2021)
Leaves the viewers questioning what's to be a "true" cop.
Posted Dec 4, 2021
43
3.5/5
7 Prisoners (7 prisioneiros) (2021)
The line between victim and accomplice can be very thin, raising complex moral dilemmas.
Posted Dec 4, 2021
44
4/5
Freeland (2021)
It's painful what we see - memories of a happy past, the acute awareness of a dark present and the fear of an unknown future.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
45
2/5
Beans (2021)
The director has all my respect for what she went through and for trying to do something with it, but there's so much room to improve here in terms of filmmaking and storytelling.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
46
3/5
King Richard (2021)
King Richard is no classic but rather a respectable entry in the sports movie genre.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
47
3/5
Nine Days (2021)
Everything feels very human and surprisingly artistic in this simplistic depiction of 'life' before life.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
48
2.5/5
An excessive anarchy that brings nothing smart in it.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
49
3/5
Last Night in Soho (2021)
This flawed horror-movie pastiche with references to the zombie and giallo canons is no novelty but can still provide some fun for those in the right mood.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
50
2/5
Finch (2021)