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Pablo Villaça
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Atuando como crítico de cinema desde 1994, é criador e editor do portal Cinema em Cena, um dos mais antigos da Internet brasileira sobre o assunto, funcionando desde 1997. Também foi roteirista e apresentador do programa Cinema em Cena durante dois anos. Além disso, fez parte do júri do Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de BH durante quatro anos consecutivos e se tornou o primeiro membro latino-americano e de língua portuguesa da OFCS, em junho de 2002. Em 2005, lançou seu primeiro livro, "O Cinema Além das Montanhas", uma biografia do cineasta Helvécio Ratton.
Belo Horizonte, Brasil
http://www.cinemaemcena.com.br
Movies reviews only
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Road House (2024) |
Road House embraces its own silliness and presents it in a genuine, sincere way, never trying to become something it isn't. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Ferrari (2023) |
Michael Mann's Cinema is populated by men obsessed with their work, whether legal or not; thus, it´s easy to understand why he would be attracted to Enzo Ferrari's story. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 15, 2024
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The Iron Claw (2023) |
It takes the universe it portrays as seriously as its characters - and any approach other than that would only serve to diminish and ridicule them. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 13, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024) |
It´s a genre(s) exercise that firmly establishes Rose Glass at the top of the list of great revelations in recent years. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 07, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024) |
The picture doesn´t ignore the Orientalism described by Edward Said in its own approach and how this influences the viewer's perception of the characters no matter how much the film tries to avoid those pitfalls. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 07, 2024
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Maestro (2023) |
It´s not like the movie needed to be hostile to Bernstein´s legacy or strive to portray him negatively, but by softening the most problematic aspects of his trajectory it comes close to seeming like an institutional affair. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 22, 2023
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Priscilla (2023) |
Coppola's approach may generate confusion and even recrimination for not blatantly condemning Elvis; this, however, is a reflection not of a hypothetical indulgence on her part, but of the point of view that guides the movie. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 19, 2023
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Toll (2023) |
Unfortunately, as the picture illustrates perfectly, intolerance often ends up proving to be stronger than family and friendship ties, destroying connections that in other circumstances would be the causes of great joy. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Napoleon (2023) |
The picture fails to do the most important thing: to illuminate why the self-proclaimed Emperor was such a revered figure and what drove his ambitions. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Nov 24, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) |
The picture works as character study, historical record, romantic tragedy, thriller, western and, finally, as atonement. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Oct 20, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
Barbie is a small miracle. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Aug 08, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
This movie resembles a nightmare that torments not only the protagonist, but all of humanity. A horror that still lives and that finds a perfect representation in Cillian Murphy's haunted eyes. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Aug 07, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) |
Even if it doesn´t live up to the original trilogy (how could it?), this film certainly presents itself as a much more worthy farewell to one of the most iconic characters that Cinema has created than the last one. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jul 04, 2023
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Kill Boksoon (2023) |
Jeon Do-yeon´s performance is fantastic; she manages to create a multidimensional character within an absurd framework. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 09, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
It's impossible not to applaud the audacity in opening the movie with a reference to Lawrence of Arabia and ending it with one to The Warriors, not fearing comparison despite the prejudice with which the genre is seen by many. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 02, 2023
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Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022) |
It may not evoke the weight of the tragedy that it portrays successfully enough for us to suffer for the couple, but it is ambitious enough for us to appreciate the exercise that results from this effort. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 31, 2023
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The Whale (2022) |
The Whale is indefensible, turning out to be a silly melodrama that views its protagonist with a loathing it tries to present as empathy. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 04, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
Knock at the Cabin works very well as we watch it, which is a step up from Shyamalan's latest efforts, which usually fell apart in real time. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Holy Spider (2022) |
Unfortunately, Abbasi's thematic ambitions are constantly sabotaged by the screenplay´s frequent missteps. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
Ruben Östlund is proving himself to be a master at creating discomfort by exposing the hypocrisy of the characters he follows. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
Martin McDonagh's humor resides in the wounds of his characters, who, suffering from inflamed emotional wounds, know how to aim precisely at the weak spots of those they want to hurt. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Feb 04, 2023
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Tár (2022) |
Blanchett creates one of those performances that transcends the actor who originated it - a rare (and therefore precious) phenomenon. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Armageddon Time (2022) |
Mediocre as narrative, juvenile as social message and tremendously middle class in its satisfaction with its own awareness of the evils of the world. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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The Menu (2022) |
Its critical view of the economic elite is one that Cinema, as a politically dynamic Art, reflects with increasing frequency in a reality in which social inequalities become greater and greater. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
It echoes the exciting feeling of discovering the possibilities of cinema, using it as part of a narrative that mirrors what made Spielberg one of the greatest filmmakers in history. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
As much as I want to see Johnson explore and expand his talent to other genres and themes, I would not be dissatisfied if he spent the rest of his career creating new mysteries for Benoit Blanc. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) |
A director like Guillermo del Toro, who sees the outcasts and the lonely as heroes, could never create a Pinocchio that defended “perfection” as a reasonable or even desirable goal. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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Pinocchio (2019) |
It's everything that recent live-action remakes of Disney classics have tried to do without success: a film that respects and follows in the footsteps of the original, but offers its own reasons for existing. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Aftersun (2022) |
Aftersun is a beautiful study of how the nature of our memories changes as our time on Earth expands our ability to see the reality of one another. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 17, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
Judging by the sneers of some critics during the screening, it´s disappointing to realize people either lost the ability to appreciate disciplined excess or resigned themselves to the safety of commonplace. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jun 02, 2022
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The Batman (2022) |
The Batman is an OK film that thinks its excellent. It's also so inspired by Fincher's two exceptional pictures about serial killers that I'm surprised it didn't call itself The Ba7man. (Full review in Portuguese.) - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 01, 2022
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The French Dispatch (2021) |
It is a shame that perhaps Anderson's gorgeous signature style will distract part of the audience to the point that they miss the humanity and beauty in his stories. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 31, 2021
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
A portrait of how toxic masculinity is a mask worn by small, insecure men whose greatest fear is that the world will discover their cowardice. [Full review in Portuguese.] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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House of Gucci (2021) |
In a way, it's Gaga who serves as the films anchor as the story around her tries to sail in all directions. [Full review in Portuguese.] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) |
Much more interested in maintaining a strong connection (and the consequent marketing potential) between all its movies/products, Marvel cant afford to allow any trace of authorship or imagination in its individual projects. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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Don't Look Up (2021) |
The film raises a fundamental question if we truly intend to analyze its effectiveness: how to satirize something that has already become absurd to the point of defying any common sense? [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2021
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021) |
Juvenile or not, it embraces its conviction in love's ability to overcome differences and circumvent obstacles that appear insurmountable. I can't say I share it, but, for all its flaws, the film made me feel it briefly. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 22, 2021
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Marighella (2019) |
The film is not afraid to question aspects of its protagonists personality, nor does it seek to soften him up - which would be a betrayal of his memory. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Nov 12, 2021
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The Suicide Squad (2021) |
The film refuses to take itself seriously at the same time it manages to avoid the dangerous sanitization of violence thats so common in the genre. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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Malignant (2021) |
Beautifully inspired by the Italian gialli horror, Malignant even turns Annabelle Wallis into a Barbara Steele doppelgänger. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) |
By virtue of being free from the obligation to make the audience laugh every 30 seconds, Burnham allows himself to experiment with the form and the rhythm of his special, creating a structure that is simply brilliant. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jun 04, 2021
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Lois Lane e Jimmy Olsen chegam a irritar pela estupidez, mas a cinessérie mantém um bom ritmo e traz Alyn com um Clark Kent/Superman suficientemente carismático. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted May 05, 2021
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The Father (2020) |
This is a tragic portrait painted with colors of horror; a study of empathy that tries to put the audience in the mind of a man who is in the process of losing it. [Full review in Portuguese[ - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 24, 2021
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Crisis (2021) |
Dealing with an important and contemporary issue, Jarecki shows great sensitivity in guiding his cast and also ability in jumping between plots and even between genres, deftly balancing between thriller and drama without sacrificing either. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Apr 20, 2021
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Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) |
Like him or not, theres no question Zack Snyder is a true Author - something that becomes patently clear when we compare his version of Justice League to Whedons inferior one. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 19, 2021
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Coming 2 America (2021) |
With the exception of Shrek 2, Eddie Murphy has a pretty bad resumé when it comes to sequels - and Coming 2 America unfortunately is another comedic failure of a brilliant comedian. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Mar 06, 2021
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The Money Pit (1986) |
Not only Tom Hanks and Shelley Long share a fantastic chemistry, the physical humor (full of brilliant set pieces) is first-rate and allows Hanks to show off his impeccable comedy chops. - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Jan 15, 2021
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Soul (2020) |
Although it is ostensibly about what lies before and after life, Soul is touching because, ultimately, it realizes that what really matters is what we do while it lasts. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 31, 2020
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) |
Wonder Woman 1984 suggests director Patty Jenkins and her star (and now producer) Gal Gadot have extracted all the wrong lessons from the success of the previous film. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 27, 2020
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His House (2020) |
This is not a movie simply interested in frightening the audience, but in causing that shiver down the spine that is much more difficult to forget after the story ends. [Full review in Portuguese] - Cinema em Cena
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| Posted Dec 15, 2020
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