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Pablo Villaça

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Biography:

Atuando como crítico de cinema desde 1994, é criador e editor do portal Cinema em Cena, um dos mais antigos da Internet brasileira sobre o assunto, funcionando desde 1997. Também foi roteirista e apresentador do programa Cinema em Cena durante dois anos. Além disso, fez parte do júri do Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de BH durante quatro anos consecutivos e se tornou o primeiro membro latino-americano e de língua portuguesa da OFCS, em junho de 2002. Em 2005, lançou seu primeiro livro, "O Cinema Além das Montanhas", uma biografia do cineasta Helvécio Ratton.

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Location:

Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Official Website:

http://www.cinemaemcena.com.br

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “An essential film not only for its immense dramatic power (and it is a formidable work), but for being a tribute to Hind and the more than 20,000 children killed by Israel in the last two years. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Dec 31, 2025 Full Review What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It's always a pleasure to see how Hong Sang-soo's impressive productivity doesn't hinder the continued creation of lovely works like this one. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 1/5 EDIT “After so many memorable monsters, Guillermo del Toro has finally created an abomination. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% 2/5 EDIT “It's a film of visual excesses and thematic confusion. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “It could easily have fallen into ridicule, but it benefits from three important elements: the clever cinematography, the sincerity of its approach, and, above all, the charisma of its hero. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Oct 29, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Albeit tangentially, it touches on the American obsession with violence, war and the use of brute force as a defining element of the country's temperament throughout history. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Night Stage (2025) 5/5 EDIT “It ends in one of the most striking final shots of 2005. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Oct 1, 2025 Full Review The Blue Trail (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Mascaro points out the hypocrisy of a conservative ideology that, while preaching the importance of Family, does not hesitate to dismantle it. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Oct 1, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Political awareness exacts a high price on anyone's mental health, but there is something very inspiring in the realization that the perpetuation of the revolutionary spirit represents one of the best legacies we can leave behind [Review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Failing to prioritize character coherence, it seems to opt for chaos and violence not as thematically significant catharsis or as a commentary on historically inevitable trends, but as pure spectacle and as a genre exercise. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “The Superman of 2025 enters the picture in a state of complete vulnerability; after all, we no longer live in a world where kindness, empathy, and altruism go unpunished. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Jul 12, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Contrasting Lula and Bolsonaro´s campaign speeches, respectively based on fighting hunger and destroying the infidels, Apocalypse in the Tropics reveals how reason and common sense are no longer enough as a strategy. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Jul 3, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2024) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Structurally ambitious, emotionally complex and visually remarkable. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Mountainhead (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “It's impossible to ignore how the dystopia portrayed in Mountainhead is already our reality. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Jun 2, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “A masterpiece. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Jun 1, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “The Phoenician Scheme demonstrates that, when we deal with filmmakers with such a markedly authorial style as Wes Anderson, it becomes practically impossible to analyze each new work as an isolated project. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena May 30, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It once again secures its star's position as the ultimate representative of the type of spectacle in which Hollywood has always specialized. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena May 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Land (2024) 100% 5/5 EDIT “No Other Land is a maddening film that exposes how cruel is the daily life of a people treated as invaders in their own nation. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Small Things Like These (2024) 93% 3/5 EDIT “The movie knows how patience can be an important virtue in a work like this; it never accelerates its pace for fear of losing the viewer and, thus, it respects the main character´s own pace. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “From Snowpiercer to Parasite, including The Host and Okja (in which another of his concerns – animal abuse – is addressed), Bong Joon Ho uses his political sensitivity as a creative source – something once again evident in Mickey 17. [Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Mar 6, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 5/5 EDIT “It honors Eunice's courage through her determination to not allow the military regime to eliminate her family's love for life or erase the memory of Rubens, turning her smile into defiance and her persistence into a weapon. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Nov 29, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% 2/5 EDIT “Folie à Deux achieves a feat that few sequels – even the worst ones – have accomplished: it makes the original film worse in retrospect. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Oct 4, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The film builds an oppressive atmosphere that keeps the viewer hostage in a universe filled with disappointment, pain and tragedy. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Aug 25, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% 4/5 EDIT “This is the sequel/prequel we´ve been waiting for almost a quarter of a century. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Aug 17, 2024 Full Review Road House (2024) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Road House embraces its own silliness and presents it in a genuine, sincere way, never trying to become something it isn't. [Full review in Portuguese]” – Cinema em Cena Mar 22, 2024 Full Review
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