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Dionar Hidalgo

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Biography:

Dionar is a Costa Rican film critic who has always been passionate about cinema. He is the voice behind Algo Más Que Cine, where he shares honest and personal reflections on films from all over the world. For him, movies are more than stories—they are mirrors, questions, and sometimes even answers. He enjoys exploring how cinema connects with emotions, culture, and society, always from a place of curiosity and admiration for the art form.

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Los Domingos (2025) 8/10 EDIT “Alauda Ruiz de Azúa delivers a sober, ambiguous drama that refuses easy answers. Anchored by Blanca Soroa’s restrained performance, Los domingos turns a young woman’s spiritual calling into a piercing exploration of faith, freedom, and family fractures.” – Algo Más Que Cine Mar 1, 2026 Full Review Calle Málaga (2025) 96% 7/10 EDIT “Carmen Maura radiates warmth and defiance in this gentle tale of aging and belonging. Though predictable, Calle Málaga offers a tender reminder that love, desire and autonomy don’t fade with time.” – Algo Más Que Cine Mar 1, 2026 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% 8/10 EDIT “Robert Aramayo delivers a fearless, deeply human performance in this compassionate biopic. I Swear balances humor and heartbreak while shedding light on Tourette syndrome, reminding us how much empathy society still owes.” – Algo Más Que Cine Mar 1, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 68% 5/10 EDIT “Ralph Fiennes delivers a finely restrained performance in this well-intentioned WWI drama. Yet despite its warmth and handsome period detail, The Choral never quite earns the emotional crescendo it so clearly aims for.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 28, 2026 Full Review L’attachement (2024) 8/10 EDIT “A tender, intimate drama that subverts rom-com expectations. Carine Tardieu crafts a nuanced portrait of chosen family, elevated by a beautifully restrained Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Honest, heartfelt, and quietly profound.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Keeper (2025) 49% 5/10 EDIT “Stylish and unsettling, Keeper turns relationship anxiety into slow-burning horror. Tatiana Maslany anchors the film with raw intensity, even if its ambitious finale can’t quite match the power of its atmospheric descent.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Franz (2025) 73% 6/10 EDIT “Fragmented yet compelling, Franz mirrors Kafka’s own unease. Agnieszka Holland crafts an intimate, meta-cinematic portrait that questions legacy as much as it honors it — uneven at times, but intellectually and emotionally resonant.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 8/10 EDIT “Bold, intimate and unexpectedly tender, Pillion transforms kink into emotional language. Anchored by Harry Melling’s vulnerable performance and Skarsgård’s magnetic restraint, it’s a daring love story about power, identity and growth.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 22, 2026 Full Review La Cena (2025) 7/10 EDIT “A well-crafted tragicomedy set in post–Civil War Spain, La cena balances satire and tension with solid performances and strong production design. Entertaining and polished, though it stops short of delivering a truly biting political punch.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 15, 2026 Full Review Aída y Vuelta (2026) 7/10 EDIT “More than a reunion, Aída y vuelta turns nostalgia into meta-commentary. Sharp, self-aware and powered by cast chemistry, it reflects on comedy, fame and changing sensitivities—uneven at times, but smart enough to justify its return.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 15, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 24% 5/10 EDIT “Warm, old-fashioned and uneven, Ella McCay recalls James L. Brooks at his most sentimental. A strong cast and flashes of sharp dialogue can’t fully overcome its scattered narrative, but it remains an endearing, if flawed, adult dramedy.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 15, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 7/10 EDIT “Sleek, controlled and proudly derivative, Crime 101 doesn’t reinvent the heist movie but plays it with style and conviction. Strong performances and tight set pieces outweigh familiar beats in this polished neo-noir throwback.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 15, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 49% 5/10 EDIT “Bigger in scale but smaller in impact, Greenland 2: Migration trades intimacy for generic spectacle. Solid effects and a committed Gerard Butler can’t hide a sequel that feels predictable, overly solemn and ultimately interchangeable.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 15, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 58% 8/10 EDIT “Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights isn’t faithful to Brontë, but it’s fiercely intoxicating. Stylish, sensual and unapologetically excessive, it reimagines Cathy and Heathcliff as addicts of desire in a visually ravishing gothic fever dream.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 12, 2026 Full Review It Would Be Night in Caracas (2025) 8/10 EDIT “Aún es de noche en Caracas is an intense, claustrophobic political thriller that turns Venezuela’s collapse into lived experience, using fear, identity loss, and survival as a stark warning for Latin America’s fragile democracies.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 68% 8/10 EDIT “Radu Jude’s Dracula is a ferocious, grotesque essay on myth, power, and cultural appropriation, turning the vampire into a symbol of capitalism, nationalism, and digital excess with fearless, exhausting energy.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Strange River (2025) 7/10 EDIT “A tender, atmospheric coming-of-age film that embraces ambiguity over answers, Strange River turns adolescent desire and family tension into a hypnotic, beautifully textured journey of feeling rather than explanation.” – Algo Más Que Cine Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Palestine '36 (2025) 100% 8/10 EDIT “A sweeping yet intimate historical epic, Palestine 36 revisits the roots of conflict with clarity and restraint. Anchored by strong performances and a humanist gaze, Annemarie Jacir turns history into a necessary act of remembrance.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Captive (2025) 71% 6/10 EDIT “A polished and ambitious historical drama that finds poetry in imagination as survival, but plays it a bit too safe. Elegant, provocative at times, yet oddly restrained for a film about the birth of literary madness.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% 6/10 EDIT “A visually striking and melancholic take on the time-loop premise. Akimoto’s anime finds beauty in repetition and despair, but its thin characterization and rushed emotional turns keep it from fully blooming.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% 2/10 EDIT “A dystopian thriller that looks like a warning but plays like propaganda. Mercy borrows the aesthetics of classic sci-fi while quietly endorsing surveillance, police states, and algorithmic justice. Stylish noise, hollow ideas” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Paternal Leave (2025) 7/10 EDIT “A quiet, honest debut that finds emotional power in silences and small gestures. Juli Grabenhenrich is a revelation, and Luca Marinelli brings fragile restraint, even if the film hesitates to fully explore the weight of absent fatherhood.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review She Walks in Darkness (2025) 62% 6/10 EDIT “A restrained and competent infiltration thriller, anchored by a solid lead performance. Díaz Yanes builds tension and historical context, but the film’s didactic tone and shallow psychology keep it from digging deeper into its troubling subject.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review The Piano Accident (2025) 6/10 EDIT “A sharp, abrasive satire of viral fame, elevated by Adèle Exarchopoulos’ deliberately ugly performance. Dupieux provokes and entertains, but the film’s punch fades quickly, leaving more sting than substance.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 8/10 EDIT “A ferocious, human-centered reinvention of the franchise. DaCosta and Garland turn zombies into background noise, letting Fiennes and a terrifying Jack O’Connell explore how language, power, and cruelty truly end the world.” – Algo Más Que Cine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review
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