Carlos Aguilar
@carlosfilm.bsky.social
Film critic/journalist. Mexican 🇲🇽 DACA. Bylines LA Times, New York Times, IndieWire, RogerEbert, Backstage
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"Oscar-nominated director Tamara Kotevska’s THE TALE OF SILYAN is a succinct, entrancing, and life-affirming documentary,” writes @carlosfilm.bsky.social.
The Tale of Silyan movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
Succinct, entrancing, and life-affirming.
www.rogerebert.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Oscar-nominated director Tamara Kotevska’s THE TALE OF SILYAN is a succinct, entrancing, and life-affirming documentary,” writes @carlosfilm.bsky.social.
On ZOOTOPIA 2. Full review here: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
On ZOOTOPIA 2. Full review here: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
LEFT-HANDED GIRL is now on Netflix. A vibrant Taipei-set story centered on a woman & her daughters defying ingrained beliefs. It’s Shih-Ching Tsou’s first solo directorial effort, co-written and edited by Sean Baker. Here’s my review for @theplaylist.bsky.social theplaylist.net/left-handed-...
‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: Taipei-Set Drama Co-Written By Sean Baker is a Poignant Intergenerational Triptych [Cannes]
Shih-Ching Tsou's first solo directorial effort, co-written with Oscar-winner Sean Baker, is the Taipei-set drama 'Left-Handed Girl.'
theplaylist.net
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
LEFT-HANDED GIRL is now on Netflix. A vibrant Taipei-set story centered on a woman & her daughters defying ingrained beliefs. It’s Shih-Ching Tsou’s first solo directorial effort, co-written and edited by Sean Baker. Here’s my review for @theplaylist.bsky.social theplaylist.net/left-handed-...
THE SECRET AGENT opens in NY today. It’s a masterful feat of storytelling about the past speaking to the present in more ways than one. Here’s my review for @theplaylist.bsky.social and I have another piece coming next week for the LA release: theplaylist.net/the-secret-a...
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
THE SECRET AGENT opens in NY today. It’s a masterful feat of storytelling about the past speaking to the present in more ways than one. Here’s my review for @theplaylist.bsky.social and I have another piece coming next week for the LA release: theplaylist.net/the-secret-a...
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I reviewed ZOOTOPIA 2 for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I reviewed ZOOTOPIA 2 for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I reviewed ZOOTOPIA 2 for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I reviewed ZOOTOPIA 2 for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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I interviewed Amy Madigan for the LA Times about playing Aunt Gladys.
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I interviewed Amy Madigan for the LA Times about playing Aunt Gladys.
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I interviewed Amy Madigan for the LA Times about playing Aunt Gladys.
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I interviewed Amy Madigan for the LA Times about playing Aunt Gladys.
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“She is just a girl trying to get through life,” Madigan said about the WEAPONS villainess who’s quickly become a horror icon and might earn her a second Oscar nomination: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Went to a THE SECRET AGENT (O Agente Secreto) trivia night and won some cool little prizes, my favorite is the newspaper, which is one of the many that they printed to use in the movie. Also, a cassette tape that’s actually a tiny book with poems, and a little taxi.
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Went to a THE SECRET AGENT (O Agente Secreto) trivia night and won some cool little prizes, my favorite is the newspaper, which is one of the many that they printed to use in the movie. Also, a cassette tape that’s actually a tiny book with poems, and a little taxi.
People posting that a movie leaking online is going to help its awards chances is truly insane. There’s a conversation to be had about accessibility to films outside urban hubs, but to claim you are being altruistic by leaking a film that hasn’t even opened in theaters is wild
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
People posting that a movie leaking online is going to help its awards chances is truly insane. There’s a conversation to be had about accessibility to films outside urban hubs, but to claim you are being altruistic by leaking a film that hasn’t even opened in theaters is wild
Now that I’ve seen most animated films, included major releases, these are the 4 I think are the best/my favorites:
-LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN 🇫🇷
-BOYS GO TO JUPITER 🇺🇸
-ELIO 🇺🇸
-ARCO 🇫🇷
-LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN 🇫🇷
-BOYS GO TO JUPITER 🇺🇸
-ELIO 🇺🇸
-ARCO 🇫🇷
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Now that I’ve seen most animated films, included major releases, these are the 4 I think are the best/my favorites:
-LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN 🇫🇷
-BOYS GO TO JUPITER 🇺🇸
-ELIO 🇺🇸
-ARCO 🇫🇷
-LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN 🇫🇷
-BOYS GO TO JUPITER 🇺🇸
-ELIO 🇺🇸
-ARCO 🇫🇷
Beloved in Latin America, 31 MINUTOS, Chile’s answer to The Muppets and Sesame Street, is a musical puppet show that parodies a newscast. They recently did a Tiny Desk concert and they have a new Prime Video special. For LA Times, I interviewed the creators: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Beloved in Latin America, 31 MINUTOS, Chile’s answer to The Muppets and Sesame Street, is a musical puppet show that parodies a newscast. They recently did a Tiny Desk concert and they have a new Prime Video special. For LA Times, I interviewed the creators: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The FYC DVD screener of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN features the mesmerizing poster by @jamesjeanart.bsky.social I hope if this film makes it to the Criterion Collection that they keep this art or something similar.
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The FYC DVD screener of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN features the mesmerizing poster by @jamesjeanart.bsky.social I hope if this film makes it to the Criterion Collection that they keep this art or something similar.
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Mexico’s Oscar entry WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED (No Nos Moverán) centers on a veteran lawyer plotting her revenge against the soldier who killer her brother in the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. It’s a blistering & tightly conceived portrait. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Mexico’s Oscar entry WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED (No Nos Moverán) centers on a veteran lawyer plotting her revenge against the soldier who killer her brother in the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. It’s a blistering & tightly conceived portrait. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
Mexico’s Oscar entry WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED (No Nos Moverán) centers on a veteran lawyer plotting her revenge against the soldier who killer her brother in the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. It’s a blistering & tightly conceived portrait. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Mexico’s Oscar entry WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED (No Nos Moverán) centers on a veteran lawyer plotting her revenge against the soldier who killer her brother in the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. It’s a blistering & tightly conceived portrait. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
Isabel Castro’s documentary SELENA Y LOS DINOS is now streaming on Netflix. With never-before-seen home videos and new interviews, the filmmaker manages to create an incisive portrait of Selena Quintanilla’s private life. I reviewed for @Variety at Sundance: variety.com/2025/film/ne...
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Isabel Castro’s documentary SELENA Y LOS DINOS is now streaming on Netflix. With never-before-seen home videos and new interviews, the filmmaker manages to create an incisive portrait of Selena Quintanilla’s private life. I reviewed for @Variety at Sundance: variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Jafar Panahi! Last night I had the great honor of moderating a Q&A at the DGA with the courageous master Iranian filmmaker about his Palme d’Or winning stunner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Thank you to the incredible interpreter Sheida Dayani for facilitating our conversation.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Jafar Panahi! Last night I had the great honor of moderating a Q&A at the DGA with the courageous master Iranian filmmaker about his Palme d’Or winning stunner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Thank you to the incredible interpreter Sheida Dayani for facilitating our conversation.
Yo con la olla del pozole si me hacen enojar en Navidad
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yo con la olla del pozole si me hacen enojar en Navidad
Directors who I think should make an animated feature. Could work with their sensibilities:
-Spike Jonze
-Jean-Pierre Jeunet
-Céline Sciamma
-David Lowery
*Michel Gondry already made one
*Bong Joon Ho is making one
*Sciamma wrote MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI, so it could happen
-Spike Jonze
-Jean-Pierre Jeunet
-Céline Sciamma
-David Lowery
*Michel Gondry already made one
*Bong Joon Ho is making one
*Sciamma wrote MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI, so it could happen
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Directors who I think should make an animated feature. Could work with their sensibilities:
-Spike Jonze
-Jean-Pierre Jeunet
-Céline Sciamma
-David Lowery
*Michel Gondry already made one
*Bong Joon Ho is making one
*Sciamma wrote MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI, so it could happen
-Spike Jonze
-Jean-Pierre Jeunet
-Céline Sciamma
-David Lowery
*Michel Gondry already made one
*Bong Joon Ho is making one
*Sciamma wrote MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI, so it could happen
Pope Leo also said said that if you use your phone in the cinema you are going straight to hell. A especial place in the eternal fire is reserved for those who take photos of the screen.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pope Leo also said said that if you use your phone in the cinema you are going straight to hell. A especial place in the eternal fire is reserved for those who take photos of the screen.
All of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s films seem to be about the permanence of memory within the physical spaces we inhabit, where indelible experiences unfold, and about the need to protect and preserve them, whether that’s an apartment, a cinema, or a small town.
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
All of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s films seem to be about the permanence of memory within the physical spaces we inhabit, where indelible experiences unfold, and about the need to protect and preserve them, whether that’s an apartment, a cinema, or a small town.
Before SIRÂT, Spanish director Óliver Laxe made FIRE WILL COME, an enthralling drama about a man who returns home to his mother in a rural town after being released from prison. He soon discovers not everyone has forgiven him. I reviewed it for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Before SIRÂT, Spanish director Óliver Laxe made FIRE WILL COME, an enthralling drama about a man who returns home to his mother in a rural town after being released from prison. He soon discovers not everyone has forgiven him. I reviewed it for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I have experienced Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION, an astonishing, endlessly inventive labyrinth of mirrors and portals that could almost convince you cinema as a medium was soley conceived so that this film could one day exist. I know that’s hyperbolic, but it’s truly so mind-blowing,
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I have experienced Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION, an astonishing, endlessly inventive labyrinth of mirrors and portals that could almost convince you cinema as a medium was soley conceived so that this film could one day exist. I know that’s hyperbolic, but it’s truly so mind-blowing,
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I interviewed the Mexican American skaters from El Paso, Texas who appear in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. For LA Times’ De Los, we talked about their experience working on a major film and collaborating with PTA, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Benicio del Toro: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I interviewed the Mexican American skaters from El Paso, Texas who appear in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. For LA Times’ De Los, we talked about their experience working on a major film and collaborating with PTA, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Benicio del Toro: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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I interviewed the Mexican American skaters from El Paso, Texas who appear in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. For LA Times’ De Los, we talked about their experience working on a major film and collaborating with PTA, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Benicio del Toro: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Get to know the ELP carnalitos.