Carlos Aguilar
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65% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.8 points higher than other critics.
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Carlos Aguilar's Scores
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- TV
Average review score: | 74 | |
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Highest review score: | The Settlers | |
Lowest review score: | Overcomer |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 270 out of 361
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Mixed: 65 out of 361
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Negative: 26 out of 361
361
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- Carlos Aguilar
Like the fiery folklore entity that lends it its name, Will-o’-the-Wisp burns bright with idiosyncratic ambition. Few cineastes out there are making deliciously defiant art like Rodrigues, and this entry in his catalog is a concentrated shot of his sardonic mastery.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 7, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Thankfully, Zuleta conjures enough effervescence to make us invested in their search for a place in the universe, even if the path is well-trod.- RogerEbert.com
- Posted Jun 2, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Its unflinching depiction of the brutal genocide of the Selk’nam people intermingles with pointed contempt for the egotistical yet pathetic colonists.- The Playlist
- Posted May 26, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Armed with a perceptive ensemble cast, Del Paso formulates an intellectually rich critique on a thorny subject for a country still reluctant to face its entrenched moral vices.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 25, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
The solution, the filmmaker argues, is a spiritual communion with the unknown, because there’s healing in surrendering to one’s perfect insignificance as part of something bigger.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 25, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
With its soulful tin heart, Robot Dreams moves us to appreciate the fortune of having a precious pal. Whether for a season or a lifetime.- IndieWire
- Posted May 23, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Writer-director Rodrigo Moreno methodically unfurls a genius tragicomedy on the elusive nature of freedom: an idealized state in which, in theory, one does as one pleases at all times.- The Playlist
- Posted May 22, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Concise, yet affecting, Chile ‘76 assuredly occupies the post as one of the finest Latin American productions to open stateside this year.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 19, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
That Bagiński’s Knights of the Zodiac amounts to a well-intended disappointment doesn’t mean it has zero merit as a work of entertainment, but it will neither satisfy the fandom’s demands for a true-to-the-bone homage to their childhood favorite, nor will it transmit to outsiders why this tale of blind courage in the face of insurmountable odds has inspired such decades-long devotion.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 15, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Even if the vehicle to deliver it is dull, Stone’s pursuit to disseminate a hopeful take in the face of the current apocalyptic prognosis for our collective existence remains commendable.- TheWrap
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
The evocative, if narratively slight, doomed romance is charged with otherworldly intensity.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Porous enough in their philosophical intent though as not to impose a strict meaning, and yet sufficiently potent to make us reassess our priorities, the array of interpersonal conflicts floating in the idiosyncratic “Blind Willow” feel like elegantly animated lucid dreams full of poetic imagery: far from realistic but viscerally truthful.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 15, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Simultaneously rousing and unnerving, “Pipeline” strays from despair. It doesn’t complicate the story with the loss of human life the way “Night Moves” does, and in that sense it can seem too neatly wrapped-up. Still, its pointed timeliness enthralls.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
With its uncompromising and full-frontal depiction of the elements that give us life, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” tests our levels of comfort in accepting we are essentially all decaying entities made of organic material. It also makes us reconsider our relationship with medicine.- The Playlist
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Rather than exploiting her sorrow-fueled mission for a “Taken”-like revenge spectacle, the verité social drama understands Cielo’s determination to find answers not as mere courageousness, but a tragic, nothing-left-to-lose lack of concern for her own safety.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
An inspired antiwar epic that recently won the Goya Award (Spain’s equivalent to an Oscar) for animated film, Vazquez’s sophomore nightmarish fairy tale culminates with frighteningly revelatory imagery signaling the pattern of destruction that has characterized human history.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
A luminous and soul-nourishing microcosm built on profound love in the face of impending grief, the film reveals itself in the charged interactions between its multiple characters.- The Playlist
- Posted Feb 25, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
From one scene to the next, like paint strokes slowly giving shape to an idea on a canvas, one can draw thematic parallels between the individual stories.- The Playlist
- Posted Feb 22, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
An exquisitely tender tribute to love in its purest expression, The Blue Caftan doesn’t romanticize the complications and conflicts facing its two soulmates, and precisely because of that it feels like an utterly honest tale of romance.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
The remarkable debut from writer-director Michelle Garza Cervera is as effectively blood-curdling as it is intellectually incisive.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 9, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
An arrestingly beautiful and philosophically imposing bilingual historical drama about the arrogance of mankind in the face of nature’s unforgiving prowess, the inherent failures of colonial enterprises, and how these factors configure the cultural identities of individuals.- IndieWire
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Radical can’t escape a formulaic construction with scenes that pack a predictably saccharine punch (see: kids rushing to hug their beloved teacher once he has proven himself an ally). And yet, as unsubtle as the story beats tend to march on, the backdrop of poverty and hopelessness make the light that Derbez’s character brings into the classroom, and in turn into the youths’ lives, earned.- IndieWire
- Posted Jan 28, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Many of the mile-per-minute quips and hilariously biting remarks in “Theater Camp” will surely enter the collective consciousness once the general public has access to them.- TheWrap
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Jackson is the epitome of a filmmaker whose gaze truly makes everything seem previously unseen. By walking alongside her characters, indeed the salt of the earth, we experience what was always there with brand new wisdom.- TheWrap
- Posted Jan 24, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Past Lives is an exquisitely wistful drama that speaks with an honesty so affectingly crisp it will turn your conceptions of love, identity and fate on their head.- TheWrap
- Posted Jan 23, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
The film always has Majors on its side, pulling us back in right as we are ready to step away from the intense barrage of rage. Anchored in his greatness, Magazine Dreams can get away with most of its flaws.- TheWrap
- Posted Jan 21, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Glowing with García Bernal’s magnetism, “Cassandro” balances the triumphant exaltation of Arbendáriz’s singular evolution as a trailblazer who didn’t set out to become one, with the obvious, still not entirely eliminated bigotry that made his trajectory so significant and groundbreaking in the first place.- IndieWire
- Posted Jan 21, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Amid tableaus of sundrenched landscapes, Simón’s instinct for eliciting naturalistic performances—displayed in her feature debut “Summer 1993"—marries a remarkably stealth narrative structure that lets us into the lives of these people, collectively and individually.- RogerEbert.com
- Posted Jan 6, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Though they never call much attention to themselves, the expertly illuminated frames of cinematographer Leonardo Feliciano (“Araby”) paint the ensemble cast with purposeful and aesthetically pleasing lighting.- TheWrap
- Posted Jan 6, 2023
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- Carlos Aguilar
Across the eras, wardrobe changes, short-lived smiles and bitter tears, and eventually the addiction and scandals, Ackie’s portrayal of Houston stands out not only for lip-synching so precisely and convincingly it makes one wonder if she is in fact singing, but because rather than imitate she seems to simply be trying to channel the cornerstones of her personality.- TheWrap
- Posted Dec 21, 2022
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