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Nicolás Ruiz

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Film critic and editor for different media outlets in Mexico. He writes about movies, popular culture, comic books, television, and literature. For the last four years, he has been an editor for the technology and geek culture blog Código Espagueti. He has a masters degree in comparative literature and enjoys random investigative work.

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Mexico City

Reviews

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Nightmare Alley (2021) 80% 3.5/5 “Nightmare Alley is an elegant adaptation that tackles the obsessions of Lindsay Gersham in the context of the digital age. A cruel allegory of our use of image, persuasion and pathos. Full review in Spanish” – N+ Mar 3, 2022 Full Review Blanco de Verano (2020) 87% 3.5/5 “Formally and thematically stylish, Summer White is an intelligent coming-of-age that tackles the ideas of power and territoriality. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Jan 10, 2022 Full Review Benedetta (2021) 84% 4/5 “An intelligent film about messianism, representation and the egotistical power of leaders. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Jan 10, 2022 Full Review Last Night in Soho (2021) 75% 3.5/5 “With his unique sensibility for pace and rhythmic montage, Wright weaves a compelling psychological nightmare that revisits the idea of male gaze in horror films. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Nov 7, 2021 Full Review The Medium (2021) 80% 1/5 “The Medium is a bitter disappointment. A banal horror movie full of clichés, formal derivations and autoexotic tropes. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Nov 7, 2021 Full Review Antlers (2021) 60% 3/5 “A peculiar blend of monster movies with social horror that doesn't always hit the target. Nevertheless, an enjoyable and interesting film. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Lamb (2021) 86% 3.5/5 “Lamb is an ambitious movie that dwells, through christian values and mythical culture, on loss and the ever growing fear of becoming inconsequential. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Hold Your Fire (2021) 95% 3.5/5 “An astute coral film that explores police violence in the United States and the evergoing racial conflict in the heart of its society. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Attica (2021) 100% 3.5/5 “A chilling and visceral archive work by legendary filmmaker Stanley Nelson. Truly captivating, thoroughly horrifying. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review The Execution (2021) 92% 3.5/5 “An ambitious and well crafted thriller that subverts the cultural expectations of the serial killer trope. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review France (2021) 67% 4/5 “A tragicomical allegory by Bruno Dumont on the media representation of France and the terrifying future of a nostalgic and broken republic. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Ahed's Knee (2021) 74% 5/5 “A complex statement about violence, fascism, authority, cinema and the intimate relationship, in Israel, between victims, executioners and bystanders. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Prayers for the Stolen (2021) 96% 2.5/5 “Prayers for the Stolen is a well crafted movie that, nevertheless, lacks the ideological complexity of Huezo's previous work. In the end, this is a paternalistic and innocent take on Mexico's drug related violence. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Sep 18, 2021 Full Review Tragic Jungle (2020) 74% 3.5/5 “Olaizola threads between fantasy and naturalism to recreate a forgotten realm of history. By doing so, Selva Trágica transcends the boundaries of period pieces in search of a complex physical and conceptual experience. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Jun 11, 2021 Full Review Crisis (2021) 66% 2.5/5 “Crisis is an entertaining, albeit superficial and sometimes clumsy thriller, that portrays, with real courage, an urgent and complicated subject. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ May 5, 2021 Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% 3.5/5 “Even if Zhao can be a little bit obvious in her emotional intentions, this character study is an interesting critique of the american dream. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Apr 27, 2021 Full Review Relic (2020) 91% 8.8/10 “An intimate film that manages to blend, with subtlety, j-horror influences in a psychological and allegorical portrait of loss and grief. A true class act from Natalie Erika James. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Apr 12, 2021 Full Review Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) 76% 7/10 “Adam Wingard understands the tone needed for a movie like this. And he understands the characters. With a keen visual eye, Godzilla vs Kong manages to create a fun new mythology based on the vast Toho lore. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Mar 30, 2021 Full Review Undine (2020) 89% 3.5/5 “Christian Petzold reflects on the architectural development of Berlin to summon mythical nostalgia and construct a modern vision of love and sacrifice. [Full review in Spanish]” – N+ Mar 30, 2021 Full Review 499 (2020) 85% 6.8/10 “499 wants to subvert the usual narrative of violence in Mexico. In this effort, it's an ambitious and brave -but finally disappointing- attempt at docufiction. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Mar 22, 2021 Full Review WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021) 75% 7.5/10 “This is not an innovative documentary, formally speaking. But it is sincere and human. More than a story about Adam Neumann, it's about the people who trusted him and the remaining hopes of an empathetic future. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Mar 22, 2021 Full Review Console Wars (2020) 85% 7.5/10 “Console Wars is a vivid representation of marketing and audiovisual culture in the nineties. A concise, precise and joyful documentary about a mediatic war that shaped the imagination of millions around the globe. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Dec 2, 2020 Full Review Z (2019) 97% 6.9/10 “There are a lot of pointless clichés and easy jumpscares in Z, but at the end Brandon Christensen manages to make an intelligent little horror film about trauma and normality. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Dec 1, 2020 Full Review Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020) 49% 1/10 “The Witches is an empty and joyless spectacle; a perfectly staged and horribly realized CGI banality. Zemeckis at an all time low. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Nov 3, 2020 Full Review New Order (2020) 67% 4/10 “New Order is a movie about fear. Fear of change, fear of social unrest, fear of political convictions. A conservative and manipulative dystopian film. [Full review in Spanish]” – Código espagueti Nov 3, 2020 Full Review
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