Movie reviews of Filipe Freitas

These are all the movies and series that Filipe has reviewed. Read more at: Always Good Movies.

Number of movie reviews: 1916 / 1916

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I felt that for every sublime moment the movie has to offer, there's a cinematic dead zone of indulgence that wipes it away. As a consequence, our interest wobbles in a story that promises more than delivers. Review

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28 june

28 jun

The film’s musical parts are inconsequential and, for their brevity, ludicrously whimsical; the pedestrian romance is without passion; the sixth sense and witchcraft suggestions feel like jokes; and the archival footage - with colorized and sepia frames - creates a completely redundant, even distracting tonal mishmash. Review

4.0

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26 june

26 jun

A quiet intensity and elegiac melancholy pervades the scenarios of a chamber film whose feelings and textures didn’t always resonate with the expected emotional weight. Review

6.0

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24 june

24 jun

Aggressively formulaic, the film is stitched with clichés and implausibilities. Review

2.0

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22 june

22 jun

The frustrating Master Gardener brings a message of inclusivity and redemption but forgets the thrills, never going far beyond the basic set-up. Review

4.0

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21 june

21 jun

Reichardt is subtle but incisive in her analysis. Showing Up is an observant, critical, gently lilting, and hyper-realistic account that uniquely captures the inner world of an introverted and peculiar artist. Review

8.0

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20 june

20 jun

Vapid at times, and with a deft camerawork refusing to cope with the story's confined temperament, the film is full of artifice to the point of absurdity. But that may just be the point of Cavalli, who keeps the humor, the drama and, let's face it, the goofy undertones that make this portrait of Italian bourgeoisie more derisive. Review

7.0

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15 june

15 jun

Reality is well-made but depends almost entirely on the acting. And neither the lead nor the supporting actors let it down, providing merciless authenticity through crisp performances. Review

8.0

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13 june

13 jun

The centre fails to hold, lashed around in an intellectual straitjacket, so the plot never wraps up appropriately. Although crossed by some beautiful cinematic imagery, Leonora Addio hardly seems more than an experimental exercise. Review

5.0

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12 june

12 jun

The talent of the young actors is obvious as they reflect teen life and confused feelings with impressive accuracy. Review

8.0

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9 june

9 jun

By trading brains for bullets and characters for puppets, the director made the worst possible choices for this exhausting fourth chapter. Review

3.0

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9 june

9 jun

With warped sounds enhancing the industrialism of the setting, this twisted fairytale is pretty darn hypnotic. Review

8.0

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6 june

6 jun

Even if you’re not tech savvy, Johnson puts it all in fascinating context. Aiming for greatness and not quite making it, he, nonetheless, discloses a vital, engaging part of technology history while guaranteeing absolute fun by effectively mixing serious and comedic tones. Review

8.0

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4 june

4 jun

The beauty of the story lies precisely in how to overcome fragility, doing it with both realistic and supernatural quests that will take you out of your comfort zone. Review

7.0

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31 may

31 may

Profoundly human and saddled with a mix of somber and limpid energy, More Than Ever is, in some measure, a slightly conventional work that could have explored its characters a bit deeper. Review

6.0

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30 may

30 may

Winter Boy is stilted, with deficient dynamics and questionable choices of monologues in front of the camera and explanatory voice-over. Review

4.0

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26 may

26 may

Dupieux’s antics are provocative, psychedelic and unapologetic. His film, so well titled, so funny, so pathetic and so bizarre, is also so memorable for all that. Review

7.0

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24 may

24 may

Moll and his regular collaborator Gilles Marchand co-wrote the film with seriousness, making it less immediately stunning and sometimes hardly pleasurable to watch. Review

7.0

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22 may

22 may

The emotional waves are never allowed to erode the unflinching truthfulness of the film’s insights. Accordingly, with intelligent nuance molding storytelling, this is a drama that, in the end, reaches our hearts. Review

8.0

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21 may

21 may

Often captured with handheld camera and featuring a score that emphasizes as much the heroic as the emotional side of things, The Covenant is not earth-shatteringly exciting, but manages to trace the political and cultural scenario of the time without overstuffing things. Review

6.0

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18 may

18 may

Considering the numerous traps associated with the material, this brave, funny leap into womanhood and religious consciousness stands in good stead. Review

8.0

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16 may

16 may

Even if the agenda does come with good intentions, the developments are less daring than expected, making Blue Jean a shockingly dull work with which I wasn’t able to connect. Review

4.0

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15 may

15 may

There’s this indelible sense of isolation, uncanniness and mystery enveloping a skimpy but relentlessly chilly mystery that ingrains the mind after it grabs the senses. Jenkin demonstrates remarkable artistry in the manner he handles the material, and will leave you guessing until the end. Review

8.0

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11 may

11 may

Return to Seoul is a compellingly constructed, deeply felt drama. Review

8.0

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10 may

10 may

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