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Carlos Aguilar

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Leviticus (2026) 100% EDIT “With “Leviticus,” Chiarella wields horror in defense of queer love, avoiding easy sentimentalism, while also not surrendering to hopelessness, all while still satisfying the audience’s cravings for effective, bone-chilling uneasiness.” – Variety Jan 27, 2026 Full Review zi (2026) B EDIT “For all its entrancing imagery, “Zi” is ultimately contrived in how the few concrete details of the narrative come together. The result is more experiential than thematically substantial.” – The Playlist Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Shitheads (2026) 57% EDIT “Sure, the case can be made for this contrast between scatological humor and serious insight working as a mirror for how quickly a person’s reality can shift from joy to sorrow, but the overall effect is puzzling. ” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 100% A EDIT “An audacious, potently unflinching, and profoundly humanistic gut-punch of a film.” – The Playlist Jan 24, 2026 Full Review American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) EDIT “As much as the doc is explicitly celebratory, its existence is inherently a political statement, just like Valdez’s oeuvre. To spotlight a Mexican American pioneer who still stands proud in all the nuances of his identity feels necessarily defiant.” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Under the Flags, the Sun (2025) EDIT “An unsettling and informative introduction to Paraguay’s recent past, “Under the Flag, the Sun” attests to the notion of humanity’s interconnectivity even before the age of the internet. ” – Variety Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Dandelion’s Odyssey (2025) EDIT “After seeing the heroes fend for themselves, the resolution feels every bit as emotional as those in Don Bluth’s “The Land Before Time” or Disney’s “Dinosaur,” achieved with a fraction of the resources.” – Variety Dec 30, 2025 Full Review A Sad and Beautiful World (2025) EDIT “Contrived by design, the premise eventually earns enough goodwill for one to play along.” – Variety Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “More of a conspicuous pastiche than a unique remixing of components, ”Dust Bunny” eventually does commit to Aurora’s darkly wondrous proposition, and it’s undeniably eye-catching on its way there.” – Variety Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% 4/4 EDIT “It’s a succinct, entrancing, and life-affirming documentary.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Front Row (2024) EDIT “The experience of watching Allouache’s film feels akin to tuning in to a random episode of a popular sitcom, knowing this is just a glimpse of a larger world. ” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Momo (2025) EDIT ““Momo” struggles to shape its derivative components into a cohesive whole, but as soon as one digs any deeper about the lore or the characters’ motivations or inner conflicts, the film reveals itself to be shallow. ” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% EDIT “Leave it to Disney to make a giant snake look disarmingly adorable and to Quan to match that energy with his warm vocal performance.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “The gently transcendent, tear-inducing conclusion that “Little Amélie” reaches suggests that memory serves as our only remedy for loss. As long as we don’t forget, what we cherish won’t become ephemeral.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2025 Full Review I Am Frankelda (2025) EDIT “Frontloaded with the extensive mythology and the mechanics of this storytelling realm, “I Am Frankelda” can feel a bit dense narratively, yet its many visual pleasures continually mesmerize. ” – Variety Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Father (2025) EDIT “A devastating study in consuming guilt and evolving grief, the latest film from writer-director Tereza Nvotová grapples potently with the complicated nature of forgiveness, not only that which others grant us, but the one we harshly deny ourselves.” – Variety Oct 31, 2025 Full Review ChaO (2025) EDIT “While hardly original in concept, Yasuhiro Aoki’s debut feature sets itself apart by way of its singularly stylized, lively visual panache.” – Variety Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) 96% EDIT “Designed to satisfy existing fans, not so much to gain new acolytes, “Chainsaw Man” can still entertain because at its barest, the concept and plot don’t seem too intricate.” – Variety Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% 3/4 EDIT “‘Plainclothes’ feels seductively alive when Lucas and Andrew are alone together—either under the warm lights of the movie theater, where their shadows betray them, or as their hands touch the other’s body inside a lonely greenhouse. I” – RogerEbert.com Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “For its lucid interpretation of the current global moment without surrendering to paralyzing despair, 'Happyend’ settles among the most unmissable films to hit U.S. theaters this year” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% EDIT “Though O’Brien is flexing his emotional range here, his hunky sincerity lands in part because Sweeney remains steady in the opposite registry. ” – Los Angeles Times Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% EDIT “Thanks to its terrific stars and Liu’s patient direction, which luxuriates in the smallest of gestures, “Preparation” transcends its most predictable beats.” – Variety Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Hola Frida (2024) 87% EDIT “An introduction to Frida Kahlo that’s by design more sentimental and uplifting than compelling.” – Variety Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) 93% EDIT “As wonderfully funny as "Boys Go to Jupiter" is, what makes this micro-production superior to macro-budget studio features is the heartfelt melancholy about the future the hero conveys, which it provides with class consciousness to boot.” – Variety Aug 11, 2025 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 98% EDIT “While this brand of offbeat, hyperaware comedy that engages with both pop culture and larger societal issues is far from uncharted territory, the queer lens through which every element is observed here reads like a strong statement on its own.” – Variety Jul 8, 2025 Full Review
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