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Puesta en Escena (AR)

Puesta en Escena (AR) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Denise Pieniazek.

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8/10
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Denise Pieniazek The story beguins with ambiguities about what is happening, gradually revealing information so that we don't know from the start whether the protagonist has chosen the wrong man or not, and therefore our judgment of the characters actions will change...
Posted Dec 13, 2025Edit critic review
7.5/10
Belén (2025) Denise Pieniazek The depiction of public demonstrations by women, regarding bodily autonomy and the right to freedom from violence against their bodies. In this sense, the film functions as an evocation of collective memory, a preservation of recent history.
Posted Nov 17, 2025Edit critic review
40/100
Superman (2025) Denise Pieniazek Although the performances are good, the script is a pastiche (in the bad sense of the term), the special effects are unpleasant and considering that one of the functions of this genre is entertainment, its doesn't achieve this purpose either.
Posted Aug 13, 2025Edit critic review
6.5/10
Mi Padre y Yo (2024) Denise Pieniazek The documentary is a heartfelt tribute to Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, who should be remembered forever for his fundamental contribution to the culture and history of world cinema. It doesn´t have formal innovations but it shows interesting archival material
Posted Nov 05, 2024Edit critic review
5.5/10
The Parties (2022) Denise Pieniazek As happens in many independent arthouse films, in Las Fiestas you have the feeling that as the story progresses, little happens in terms of action, and at times the verisimilitude declines. On the other hand, the success of its outcome stands out...
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) Denise Pieniazek Without a doubt, this incredible true event that shows the antiquity of anti-Semitism and the brutal conversion attempts that the Jews suffered, deserved to be brought to the big screen.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
Robot Dreams (2023) Denise Pieniazek Robot Dreams offers an entertaining and warm story about how emotional bonds are transmuted, with the lesson that sometimes it is also appropriate to let them go to build new ones, with a bittersweet flavor due to the alternation of comedy and drama...
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
Perfect Days (2023) Denise Pieniazek The richness of Días Perfectos consists of its traditional portrait where the protagonist sees each day with the enthusiasm of a new day. He lives each day in his uniqueness, aware that each one of them is unrepeatable...
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
6/10
Wonka (2023) Denise Pieniazek The accomplished work of the technical teamm, especially the production and costume design is notable. Wonka, offers a correct but not dazzling character's beginning story, but it offers a different edge by choosing another timeline.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8.5/10
The Quiet Girl (2022) Denise Pieniazek In the present drama, nature is also presented as a new possibility, as a rebirth. Running in the middle of the field represents for Cáit the emergence of another reality, the possibility of free will, the opportunity for change, for flourishing freedom.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
7/10
Elemental (2023) Denise Pieniazek Consequently, the film not only focuses on interclass and racial romance, but also reflects on other issues such as uprooting, the breaking of family mandates, prejudices and vocation or talent.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
Air (2023) Denise Pieniazek The dynamic rhythm and the accurate direction of Ben Affleck, together with the good balance between humor and emotion, produce an entertaining work. The film manages to portray in detail the period climate of the '80s, mainly thanks to its setting.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
To Catch a Killer (2023) Denise Pieniazek From the first scene, Misántropo manages to unfold the intrigue and skillfully manage the suspense, to keep the viewer trapped throughout the story. There, two logics in tension are represented, the logic of the murderer and the logic of the police system
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
Women Talking (2022) Denise Pieniazek While the novel was inspired by real events that occurred in a Bolivian colony, the film takes place in a rural and isolated community where the women, tired of patriarchal oppression, try to reconcile their desire for freedom with their religious beliefs
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
El Método Tangalanga (2022) Denise Pieniazek Inspired by the life of the popular comedian Doctor Tangalanga, the feature film takes some events in his life to create a fiction that moves away from the traditional biopic and exhaustive historical recreation and add some of the romantic comedy.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8.5/10
Dive (2022) Denise Pieniazek What Mariel kept silent for years, what she repressed unconsciously, will end up coming to the surface, just as she does after a free fall jump. That constant tension in the paradox of a professional swimmer fighting to “stay afloat”...
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
Argentina, 1985 (2022) Denise Pieniazek In conclusion, Argentina, 1985, through a remarkable setting that manages to recreate and transmit the climate of the time, entertainingly narrates one of the most important events in Argentine history. A fact that deserved to be brought to the big screen
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
The Menu (2022) Denise Pieniazek This gourmet show takes unforeseen directions when each step of the menu is transformed into a theatrical act, where the tension will go to a crescendo and the experience that chef Slowik and his team have prepared is not what the diners expected...
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
Don't Worry Darling (2022) Denise Pieniazek Don't worry darling, proposes a disturbing world, where we go from the perfect to the sinister. Alice's internal action, becomes increasingly externalized (...)The signs and spatial distortions are actually the awakening of Alice, symbolizing feminism.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
7/10
Un Crimen Argentino (2022) Denise Pieniazek Using a detective tone, the narrative focuses on the search for evidence by the investigators who have a suspect under their sights, Mariano Márquez, a lawyer who already has a criminal record, but the problem is that “without body there is no crime”...
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
5/10
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Denise Pieniazek Thor: Love and Thunder focuses on the new Asgard, which in a way allows it to start over and get rid of the events previously narrated with Avengers, in order to focus on the future of the “god of thunder” with a different narrative tone.
Posted Aug 22, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
Elvis (2022) Denise Pieniazek The story shows that the artist took elements from different musical styles such as gospel and blues, to fuse them with country music, rock and roll and even opera. All this through aesthetic characteristic of the director, like comics and the video clip
Posted Aug 21, 2024Edit critic review
6/10
Petite fleur (2022) Denise Pieniazek The film is a transposition of the novel Petite fleur jamais ne meurt and narrates the couple arguments with a steely tone of sarcasm that makes the viewer laugh. This poetics will be emphasized by the black humor and crime.
Posted Aug 21, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
The Black Phone (2021) Denise Pieniazek In The Black Telephone some of the director's stylems are observed, such as the prominence of children/adolescents in the action, perverse villains who hide their faces behind peculiar masks, and the presence of pagan or religious elements.
Posted Aug 21, 2024Edit critic review
7/10
Exquisite Corpse (2021) Denise Pieniazek The film tells the love story between Blanca and Clara (Sofía G Castiglione), but has the particularity of doing so through the fusion of film genres such as psychological thriller and drama, it even has residual but characteristic elements of melodrama.
Posted Aug 21, 2024Edit critic review
6/10
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Denise Pieniazek ...Unlike other films in the superhero film genre, this installment is not aimed at a family audience due to its themes linked to black magic and the occult, and specifically to the chaotic and at times even violent consequences of the magic.
Posted Aug 21, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
The Good Boss (2021) Denise Pieniazek Through a very entertaining and solid story, the film exposes the endless circularity of an unequal system where hypocrisy and the appearance of current false political correctness reign.
Posted Aug 19, 2024Edit critic review
7/10
Official Competition (2021) Denise Pieniazek Its protagonists will oscillate from ridicule to sanctification or appreciation. Consequently, the general tone of the narrative is one of an acidic and sarcastic comedy that dramatically laughs at artistic clichés and the film industry itself...
Posted Aug 18, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
Spencer (2021) Denise Pieniazek The protagonist is Diana Spencer like her life, this story does not represent a traditional biopic. The proposal of this “fable of a real tragedy” is to unmask that idyllically called “fairy tale” whose paradigm changed from Diana's experience...
Posted Aug 18, 2024Edit critic review
7/10
The Batman (2022) Denise Pieniazek "The Batman" has a somber tone different from previous versions that, due to its enunciation, bring it closer to the style of the Film-Noir film genre, returning to the original style of the comic strip and its proximity to pulp literature.
Posted Aug 18, 2024Edit critic review
8.5/10
Parallel Mothers (2021) Denise Pieniazek Like several of Almodóvar's mother melodramas, Parallel Mothers oscillates between the “bad mother” and the “good mother.” The symbolic parallels constantly, redefine the narrative, linking the themes of the violation of human rights and identity.
Posted Aug 18, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
The French Dispatch (2021) Denise Pieniazek The film is a tribute to a world in possible extinction, the written press. The publications of The French Dispatch, divide the narrative mainly into three stories, who corresponds to a section of the magazine, turning it into a kind of anthology.
Posted Aug 18, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
House of Gucci (2021) Denise Pieniazek The Gucci house then narrates the fall of a dynasty, of an empire that no one wants to part with, because Gucci is “synonymous with seduction, wealth, style and power… but that name was also a curse.”
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
The Last Duel (2021) Denise Pieniazek Despite being a historical film, The Last Duel is in tune with the current feminist wave, making a story from the past echo in the present, and without forcing this resource like most current films...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
The Many Saints of Newark (2021) Denise Pieniazek The Mafia Saints is intended to represent not Tony, but the one who had the greatest influence on his personality and leadership qualities. Because as one of the film's advertising slogans expresses, “Legends are not born, they are made”...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
Cry Macho (2021) Denise Pieniazek The story mainly fuses two film genres such as the road movie with the western, since we will observe this peculiar couple made up of an older man - an icon of one of the North American emblems such as the rodeo - and a Mexican teenager...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
Wrath of Man (2021) Denise Pieniazek Although the script is based on the previous text of the French film Le Convoyeur (2004), Ritchie completely appropriates the story and gives it his imprint, completely changing the tone and the poetics of it.
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
The Father (2020) Denise Pieniazek A psychological drama that has the originality of narrating the action from the point of view of an older man, through which the viewer must discover if he suffers from some type of senile dementia, or if it is his environment who wants harm him.
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
6/10
In the Heights (2021) Denise Pieniazek Both Jon M. Chu and Miranda are first-generation Americans, therefore, they had several points in common to think together about transposition, through rootlessness and otherness that are two of the main themes of the musical.
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
8.5/10
Luca (2021) Denise Pieniazek In Portorosso its inhabitants are against what they call sea monsters. Conversely, the creatures that live under the sea call humans monsters above. So, that world is divided in two microcosms that show that everything depends on the point of view.
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
Cruella (2021) Denise Pieniazek The feature film in question is a journey of self-knowledge of the young Estella who becomes Cruella, who manages to build the status of the character who will define herself as “brilliant, evil and crazy”...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
7.5/10
Pinocchio (2019) Denise Pieniazek In contrast to the Disney animation, Garrone presents to us has a more adult and profound look, since, like the literary text, it is aimed at both children and adults, in their entire age range, since it takes up the crudeness of Collodi's text.
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
6/10
The Little Things (2021) Denise Pieniazek The way in which the serial killer operates by placing his victims as a great staging and the investigation by a contrasting police duo, who differ in ages, work methods, social class and cultural ethnicity, automatically refers to the '90s...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
8/10
Promising Young Woman (2020) Denise Pieniazek The reading hypothesis about Promising Young Woman that this analysis proposes is that it is a rewriting of the cinematographic subgenre of Rape and revenge...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
6/10
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Denise Pieniazek Something that I have maintained since Wonder Woman (2017) is that the most interesting thing about these new cinematographic transpositions is the representation of the universe of Themyscira...
Posted Aug 16, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
1917 (2019) Denise Pieniazek In 1917, Sam Mendes expressed several reflections regarding the war. First, he outlines how the First World War completely changed the conception of battle, generating the beginning of modern warfare.
Posted Aug 15, 2024Edit critic review
7.5
Spies in Disguise (2019) Denise Pieniazek Through constant and successful moments of comedy, some of them with fun appeals to pop culture, and an excellent use of the soundtrack, the movie is a forceful and joyful proposal to enjoy, which It will please both the little ones and the older ones.
Posted Aug 15, 2024Edit critic review
6.5
Jojo Rabbit (2019) Denise Pieniazek Jojo Rabbit is a parody of Nazism, where the idea of ​​a fanatical child who dialogues with the “spectre/presence” of Hitler is very original. However, all subsequent development loses originality since it seems like a fusion of previous films such as...
Posted Aug 15, 2024Edit critic review
9.5
Parasite (2019) Denise Pieniazek Fundamentally, Parasite aims to make us reflect on today's society, where the gap between the rich, the middle class and the poor is increasing.The spatial construction that the film proposes is a metaphor for the cruel social pyramid system.
Posted Aug 15, 2024Edit critic review
9/10
La Chimera (2023) Denise Pieniazek In this journey, between the universe of the living and the sensory connection with the world of the dead, the poetics of magical realism is present. Consequently, the presence of the sensory is part of the protagonist's perception of reality...
Posted May 21, 2024Edit critic review
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