{"id":3089,"date":"2018-03-03T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/03\/03\/veronica-review-roundup-netflixs-new-horror-offering-is-a-better-surprise-than-the-cloverfield-paradox\/"},"modified":"2018-03-03T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:03:32","slug":"veronica-review-roundup-netflixs-new-horror-offering-is-a-better-surprise-than-the-cloverfield-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/03\/03\/veronica-review-roundup-netflixs-new-horror-offering-is-a-better-surprise-than-the-cloverfield-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ver\u00f3nica\u2019 Review Roundup: Netflix\u2019s New Horror Offering Is a Better Surprise Than \u2018The Cloverfield Paradox\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this? A horror movie on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\">Netflix<\/a> worth watching? &#8220;Ver\u00f3nica&#8221; appears to be just that, as &#8220;[REC]&#8221; director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/paco-plaza\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paco-plaza\">Paco Plaza<\/a>&#8217;s film has received across-the-board critical praise in addition to six Goya Award nominations (including Best Film) in its native Spain. Currently sitting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/veronica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">100% &#8220;fresh&#8221;<\/a> on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is now streaming.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/02\/the-ritual-reviews-netflix-horror-1201927365\/\" title=\"\u2018The Ritual\u2019 Reviews: Netflix\u2019s New Original Horror Film Is Worth a Trip to the Woods for Genre Fiends\">\u2018The Ritual\u2019 Reviews: Netflix\u2019s New Original Horror Film Is Worth a Trip to the Woods for Genre Fiends<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefilmstage.com\/reviews\/tiff-review-veronica-is-an-intense-but-familiar-tale-of-demonic-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Film Stage<\/a>&#8216;s Jared Mobarak suggests it&#8217;s worth your time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Having this type of break-neck speed conclusion seems to be a pattern with Plaza (although &#8216;[REC]&#8217; is my only point of comparison), but who cares if it works? At the end of the day a horror film is successful if it can make your heart pound out of your chest. And for most of &#8216;Ver\u00f3nica,&#8217; Plaza and Navarro do exactly that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ditto Anton Bitel of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/veronica-lff-film-review-coming-of-age-chiller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SciFiNow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;The film ultimately favours the paranormal \u2013 yet Plaza still slyly insinuates an alternative explanation, rooted in the protagonist\u2019s psychosexual unravelling. This reading is subtly aided by the casting of Ana Torrent as the children\u2019s mother, given that Torrent\u2019s breakout r\u00f4le, in Victor Erice\u2019s &#8216;Spirit of the Beehive&#8217; (1973), was precisely as an impressionable girl coming of age in a confusion of fantasy and reality.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/03\/fullmetal-alchemist-reviews-netflix-live-action-1201934805\/\" title=\"\u2018Fullmetal Alchemist\u2019 Review Roundup: Life Continues to Be Pain for Anime Fans\">\u2018Fullmetal Alchemist\u2019 Review Roundup: Life Continues to Be Pain for Anime Fans<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>David Nusair&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/reelfilm.com\/tiff1703.htm#veronica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reel Film Reviews<\/a> write-up is similarly laudatory:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s very little in &#8216;Ver\u00f3nica&#8217; one hasn&#8217;t seen countless times before, and yet the film, for the most part, comes off as an uncommonly superior example of this sort of thing &#8211; as Plaza delivers a consistently engaging narrative that only grows more and more compelling as time progresses (ie there&#8217;s a real sense of momentum and escalation at work here).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinemania.elmundo.es\/peliculas\/veronica\/critica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cineman\u00eda<\/a>&#8216;s Andrea G. Bermejo is another fan:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Regardless of whether or not you believe in spirits, you will believe &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/veronica\/\" id=\"auto-tag_veronica\">Veronica<\/a>&#8217;. It brings horror to the known, to what is ours. And it&#8217;s very scary.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this? A horror movie on Netflix worth watching? &#8220;Ver\u00f3nica&#8221; appears to be just that, as &#8220;[REC]&#8221; director Paco Plaza&#8217;s film&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-NP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}