The last presents in the form of premieres that the boring 2022 leaves us, allow us to close it with optimism
You have to see how lively Christmas is thanks to a Pedro, a Froilán and an Isabel (plus Mario), who, like today’s Three Wise Men, don’t stop giving us gifts. On the other hand, the latest presents in the form of premieres that the dull 2022 leaves us with allow us to close it with optimism.
You would never think that Tom Hanks could be ‘The Worst Neighbor in the World’, on the contrary, he is the neighbor, son-in-law, friend or father we would all like to have. That is why his starring role in this version of a Swedish film, which is also an adaptation of a successful book, is all the more commendable, as the entire film is based solely on him and his infinite ability to play a grumpy butt without however you want it.
To that neighbor you don’t get on the elevator with, the one who always disagrees in neighborhood meetings, the one who scolds the cleaner when she puts the doormat in a different direction, who is on his way to be eaten by his cats (if the cats dared to approach him), a family moves in the antipodes next to him which will influence his way of being. But don’t think it’s a complacent or sentimental movie, some things are not what they seem. The story of transformation and redemption? It goes a bit off the rails on which these stories usually play out. It’s kind of ‘Gran Torino’ in a friendly way starring the old sourpusses from Los Muppets.
Carlos Santos, Julián López, Macarena Gómez and Toni Acosta are some of the actors appearing in the choral mystery comedy ‘Everyone does it’ (in case you still feel like it after ‘Puñales por el espalda 2’) . Four couples are invited to a mountain hotel by an atypical owner, the ever-nice Pablo Carbonell, who blackmails them and is murdered.
You know that ‘find the killer’ movies with a touch of humor are one of my foibles, I suspect a childish fixation on Margaret Rutherford’s Miss Marple and the Thin Man black and white films. Black comedy (black humor is as Spanish as envy) that works if you don’t ask too much of it. Friendly laughter to spend the first day of the year.
‘Pray for the Devil’ is a cliche on legs. It clearly involves demonic possessions being fought by a nun with a cursed past (you know that just like aliens always land in the United States, devils are always fought by the Catholic Church, which is very photogenic). The director is a specialist in the genre, which makes him a specialist in copying, however much he considers a school of exorcism a novelty. You will be quite shocked every now and then, but above all a lot of boredom.
Today’s rarity is one of Spanish animation. We are transferred to Shanghai in 1934, from where begins a journey whose most distinguished passenger is a detective seeking retirement. But his plans are cut short by a crime he must solve, in which he will see the shadow of a nemesis. The difference with ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is that everything takes place in a world parallel to ours, populated by anthropomorphic insects (not counting the human-shaped cockroaches that live among us, of course). And it is that ‘Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow’ is my fun and childish recommendation for this holiday season.
Off-camera 2022 is drawing to a close, and in that year Ben Afleck’s bachelorhood has ended (unfortunately not his acting career), the open bar of platform productions is over (it had to come), it’s over (voluntarily) Serrat, the Golden Globes are (almost) over, the old law of Spanish cinema is over (and they’re going…), (they’re never) done talking about Will Smith’s slap in the face at the Oscars, and it’s (mostly) over the life of my admired Angela Lansbury. Happy New Year, moviegoers and moviegoers.
May you have a 2023 and a week of cinema.
Source: La Verdad
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