REVIEW ‘Things We Dare Not Do’: A Heartwarming Coming-of-Age Story with a Twist
Things We Dare Not Do (Cosas que no hacemos, 2020) is a heartwarming coming-of-age story with a twist. Mexican cinematographer... Read Article
Mexican Movies
REVIEW The Chambermaid
Lila Aviles’ debut film The Chambermaid (La Camarista) starts out strongly by introducing a quiet, mousy Eve that dutifully cleans,... Read Article
REVIEW Our Time
Renowned Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas’ latest feature Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) is a 3-hour study of a modern relationship gone... Read Article
REVIEW Desierto
Desierto’s title sequence promises much. Grandiose, panoramic photography introduces the desert as a vast lunar world in which human life... Read Article
Golden Globes 2016: A Triumph For Mexico
The 73rd annual Golden Globes Awards generated a buzz as the greatest works of film and television of 2015 were... Read Article
REVIEW México Bárbaro
Mexico is a country of rich and strange folklore packed with terrible legends of the supernatural and the fanciful; syncretic... Read Article
REVIEW Güeros
Güeros (Mexican slang for a person with light hair) is the new film from Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios that has... Read Article
REVIEW Halley
In his minimalist debut feature Halley, Mexican director Sebastian Hoffman offers a relentlessly bleak portrait of urban isolation which is... Read Article
REVIEW Post Tenebras Lux
From the very start of Carlos Reygadas’s fourth feature film Post Tenebras Lux (winner of the coveted Best Director Award... Read Article
REVIEW Life is a Circus – A Review of Circo
The circus is tough, but it is also beautiful. So says ringmaster Juventino “Tino” Ponce at the beginning of Circo,... Read Article