Carlos Aguilar
@carlosfilm.bsky.social
Film critic/journalist. Mexican 🇲🇽 DACA. Bylines LA Times, New York Times, IndieWire, RogerEbert, Backstage
I profiled Brazilian star Wagner Moura for LA Times. With input from directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and José Padilha. We talked THE SECRET AGENT, his predilection for politically charged roles, and being himself even if Hollywood wants to change him: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I profiled Brazilian star Wagner Moura for LA Times. With input from directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and José Padilha. We talked THE SECRET AGENT, his predilection for politically charged roles, and being himself even if Hollywood wants to change him: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
An honor to be part of Gotham Awards nominating committee in the Best Original and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. From our picks, a great pair of winners resulted.
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
An honor to be part of Gotham Awards nominating committee in the Best Original and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. From our picks, a great pair of winners resulted.
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...
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...
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 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...
Here’s how the inside of the tape looks
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Here’s how the inside of the tape looks
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.
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.
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
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,
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/...
Oof two greats gone. Tatsuya Nakadai and Homayoun Ershadi. RIP to these legends of cinema immortalized in films that will remain relevant for as long as the art form exists.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Oof two greats gone. Tatsuya Nakadai and Homayoun Ershadi. RIP to these legends of cinema immortalized in films that will remain relevant for as long as the art form exists.
The Mexican film CORINA is streaming on Hulu/Disney+ now. It’s a story about a young woman with dreams of being a writer but afraid of stepping outside of her comfort zone. It has often been compared to AMÉLIE. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The Mexican film CORINA is streaming on Hulu/Disney+ now. It’s a story about a young woman with dreams of being a writer but afraid of stepping outside of her comfort zone. It has often been compared to AMÉLIE. I reviewed it for @variety.com: variety.com/2025/film/re...
Came to mind that in Guillermo del Toro’s CRONOS, the foul-mouthed embalmer Tito, played by actor Daniel Giménez Cacho, might be a prototype for Victor Frankenstein. He certainly has the look, and he thinks of what he does with dead bodies as the work of an artist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Came to mind that in Guillermo del Toro’s CRONOS, the foul-mouthed embalmer Tito, played by actor Daniel Giménez Cacho, might be a prototype for Victor Frankenstein. He certainly has the look, and he thinks of what he does with dead bodies as the work of an artist.
For LA Times, I interviewed the directors of LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN, my favorite animated film of the year, about a Belgian girl in Japan who thinks she is God. A joy to hear from directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han about this triumph: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For LA Times, I interviewed the directors of LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN, my favorite animated film of the year, about a Belgian girl in Japan who thinks she is God. A joy to hear from directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han about this triumph: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Get Ready With Me to hunt down my father, who created me from the body parts of corpses and condemned me to a dreadful existence #BadDad #Frankenstein #Elizabeth
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Get Ready With Me to hunt down my father, who created me from the body parts of corpses and condemned me to a dreadful existence #BadDad #Frankenstein #Elizabeth