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Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Better than the first one, now I hope for the franchise
So I just watched this with the family and we had a blast. Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill have both done a great job and Millie carries the movie making it fun , plus she adds a lot of charm. It's very well directed with great rhythm and good production too. All these are things that were in the first part to a certain degree but have improved in the sequel (which I now hope becomes a franchise). I also appreciated the strong feminist message (I'm a guy and watched with my girls) that is now stronger than in the first but without the need to ridicule every single male character, just the bad guys that deserved a good kick in...
Blonde (2022)
HER LIFE WAS A MOVIE
Ana de Armas impressive performance took me back to the first time I saw Marylin in Some Like It Hot in the best possible way. Better than impersonating, Ana has captured the sex appeal, sweetness and beauty of Marylin with all the underlying fragility. It's a multilayered performance that has made of this movie a piece of art that will leave no one indifferent.
The movie focuses mostly on the suffering that Marylin went through and, though it shouldn't be taken as an accurate biopic, it does capture her life in cinematic language. It made a true impression and has been one of the few pieces in the last years that really moved me with scenes at time crude that may provoke the complaints of some fanatics that cannot stand that a woman who was a victim since her childhood was also successful and powerful while losing none of the fragility that would ultimately cost her her life. I won't give a 10 because a couple of scenes where a bit too long but other than that, a masterpiece.
Akelarre (2020)
As historically accurate as Star Wars but entertaining
Whoever wrote the script informed him or herself on the Spanish Inquisition with a Monty Python's sketch. The movie is well made an entertaining but it is a distorted view, particularly when it comes to the lead inquisitor, based on a judge that was called the friend of the witches and treated a lot of the cases as mental disease. Those that are looking for a bloody story on witch-hunting should look further north, where thousands were killed (compared to hundreds in Spain).
I still liked it, but I recommend to read Henry Kamen's work and remember that this is not history, no more than Star Wars anyway.
Sin límites (2022)
Good but should have been better
Magellan and Elcano completed what is probably the greatest feat of exploration in history and this is a good attempt to honour it, but it deserved a bigger budget and more time to define the characters. Though Magellan is as historians describe him Elcano may have been over romanticised (Great Alvaro Morte though). More money should have gone into this.
There were at least three mutinies and crossing the Strait of Magellan for the first time would have deserved at least two episodes. The fight with LapuLapu had a religious component. Magellan was a very pious man (extremist maybe) and that was the root of many troubles during the journey. More time should have been spent on this.
Overall good and beautiful but it should have been better.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Shameless jingoistic myths
If you want your children to learn all the lies they fed you when you were little go for this movie. It baffles me that in the XXI century serious artists make themselves tools of the nationalistic machines. Better grab a book.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Grow up and look up
If you're one of those critics that blame this movie for punching down on those that value feelings over reason and for not taking into account "the others" point of view well, that's what the movie is about. The movie is funny and honest. I loved it.
El Cid (2020)
Good and improving
I liked the first season enough to start the second and now I'm really looking forward to the third one. The storyline is getting more interesting and the actors are doing better. Also a good production!
Enola Holmes (2020)
Adjust for age
Dull crime puzzle only compensated by MBB's and HC's charming performance and a good production. A little bit too obvious in making some male characters look ridiculous even for a pro-feminist movie I would not recommend to anyone older than 12.