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Emilia Pérez - Review

   Cast  - Karla Sofía Garcón, Zoë Saldana, Selena Gomez. Jacques Audiard  - Director           "Habla, esta gente habla, pero ahora lo van a pagar."           ​As a Mexican, having to watch ignorant, simplistic, and often disrespectful depictions of how life is in this country is to be expected once in a while. There are countless examples of this in cinema, television, and the opinions of random Twitter users. Most of these are embraced, reclaimed, and even celebrated by large sections of the population, I doubt Emilia Pérez , with its soap opera sensibilities will be hated by many of them. For the more progressive outlets, critics from Mexico, and on Social Media, this is yet another example of a whitewashed representation of the entire country's way of living, its government, and attempting to tackle an issue that causes hundreds of thousands of dead and missing people every year without the proper education and g...

Review: The Killer - 2023

Story  - After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal. Cast  -  Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell Crew  -  David Fincher (Director), Andrew Kevin Walker (Writer), Alexis Nolent (Writer), Luc Jacamon (Writer) Runtime   - 118  minutes          

Letterboxd Review: La Leyenda de la Llorona - 2011

  Story - Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night in this subtitled, Spanish-language animated adventure. Cast - Yair Prado, Mónica del Carmen, Rafael Inclán, Andrés Couturier Crew - Alberto Rodríguez (Director/Writer), Ricardo Arnais (Writer), Omar Mustre (Writer), Jesús Gumán (Writer) Runtime - 81 minutes