One of my favorite quotes from my interview with Béla Tarr and a photo after our Q&A at the Aero. I’ll cherish those nights hanging out with him and the American Cinematheque folks. @amcinematheque.bsky.social

Deeply sad to hear Hungarian master Béla Tarr passed. A titan of cinema who pushed formal/narrative boundaries. Truly the type of art that can change how you think of the art form itself. Feel so lucky to have interviewed him during his last LA visit. RIP: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The Creature in his final form lurking in the background. The exhibit for Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is stunning.

Wagner Moura and Kleber Mendonça Filho present the award for Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards and shout out international films. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

More Brazilian wins at the @criticschoice.bsky.social Awards! Adolpho Veloso wins Best Cinematography for TRAIN DREAMS!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🎥🎥🎥

🇧🇷THE SECRET AGENT has won the Critics Choice for Best Foreign Language Film award!! So happy for @kmendoncafilho.bsky.social

Meet Cliqua, the Mexican American director duo that caught the eye of Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Rosalía and more. In 2025 they also premiered the film SERIOUS PEOPLE at Sundance. I had the chance to profile them for LA Times’ De Los for my last piece of 2025: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Imperialism wrapped in the false promise of freedom. Tale as old as time.

Excited to be voting this morning as part of the National Society of Film Critics for our annual awards. Every year I’m so honored to be part of a group that brings together some of the most brilliant writers in the country. @nsfc.bsky.social

Meet Cliqua, the Mexican American director duo that caught the eye of Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Rosalía and more. In 2025 they also premiered the film SERIOUS PEOPLE at Sundance. I had the chance to profile them for LA Times’ De Los for my last piece of 2025: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Proud of this De Los doubleheader in today’s @latimes.com entertainment print section. Cliqua story (by @carlosfilm.bsky.social): www.latimes.com/delos/story/... Leather: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Last 2025 Watch / First 2026 Watch

First day of the year and I’m already stressed out because I don’t have any assignments for January. I spent all of December trying to land some work for the beginning of the year, but no luck. If you are an editor taking pitches I’d love to be in touch.

2025 Lotería! To share with you the list of my 30 favorite films of 2025, here is my 9th annual lotería card with drawings representing each of the movies I loved most this year. Thank you above all to the amazing @conorholt.bsky.social!

2025 Lotería! To share with you the list of my 30 favorite films of 2025, here is my 9th annual lotería card with drawings representing each of the movies I loved most this year. Thank you above all to the amazing @conorholt.bsky.social!

My list of the 25 best Latino films of 2025 made it to print today in the LA Times. You can read it here: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

For those who enjoy it, tomorrow morning I’ll be sharing my lotería card with drawings representing my 30 favorite films of 2025. Excited to share!

It Was Just a Rave

Haven’t spent Christmas with my mom and my brother in more than 20 years. Thinking about all the immigrants who haven’t seen their families in decades or whose loved ones died back home before they could reunite. The holidays are hard for those who had to leave and can’t return.

Go to sleep or El Burrito Sabanero is gonna get you. Tuki tuki tuki tuki, tuki tuki tuki ta!

Got an early Christmas present from @criterion.bsky.social . A copy of the CAUGHT BY THE TIDES blu-ray with my essay/notes in it. Feel so lucky to have written a few words about this incredible film for this release. The disc is out on January 20.

Got an early Christmas present from @criterion.bsky.social . A copy of the CAUGHT BY THE TIDES blu-ray with my essay/notes in it. Feel so lucky to have written a few words about this incredible film for this release. The disc is out on January 20.

For LA Times’ De Los, I listed the 25 best Latino films of 2025 plus a few honorable mentions. The list includes films from Latin America and films about Latinos in the U.S. Some expected picks and hopefully a few ripe for discovery 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇴🇨🇱🇦🇷🇩🇴🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

The 25 best Latino movies of 2025 (and some honorable mentions). Always look forward to this @carlosfilm.bsky.social annual list www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

In Sean Baker’s TANGERINE and STARLET, James Ransone played supporting roles that could have easily stayed as negative archetypes, but his charisma and the tonal precision of his performances transformed them into memorable, lived-in characters with compelling contradictions. RIP

My two recent pieces for New York Times are in print today. On the same page! They couldn’t be more disparate in theme, but the layout folks put them together, which is so kooky/wonderful. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE and THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE sharing the same space. Links below.

Fully in the bag of REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND. Every shot and cut more impecable than the last for a film that feels formally exhilarating in its sensory pleasures, while commenting on the fragmentation that occurs for performers caught between fiction and truth. Exquisite.

I’m sure somebody has already pointed it out, but in Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN, the Creature’s electrified chest piece obviously resembles the Cronos device from CRONOS. Can’t believe it didn’t click for me before

We asked our regular contributors to pick a performance this year they loved, and the results capture the diversity of genre, tone, and even acting styles in the art form. Consider this a snapshot of the great acting of 2025:

I contain multitudes! The last two pieces I wrote were on Albert Serra’s AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE and on Kronk from THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (both for New York Times). Neither got much traction, but I’ll put the gift links in the replies in case anybody is curious to read.

Brazil has two incredible films on the Oscar shortlists. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT in international film/casting and Petra Costa’s documentary APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS. Films that are politically in conversation about the past, present, and future of the country.

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The girlies don't want a Gaston origin story. The girlies want a Kronk origin story.

The New York Times let me write about Kronk for the 25th Anniversary of THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE, one of my favorite movies as a kid. I talked to some of the artists who brought the beloved himbo henchman to life: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...

Last night at Los Feliz 3 with the filmmakers behind Chile’s Oscar entry THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO, director Diego Céspedes and producer Giancarlo Nasi. This humorous, angry, imaginative queer film opens in NYC today. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

For the New York Times I interviewed Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra about his entrancing documentary AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Tardes de Soledad). And I also talked to the editor in chief of Cahiers du Cinéma, which name it the best film of 2025: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/m...

For the New York Times I interviewed Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra about his entrancing documentary AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Tardes de Soledad). And I also talked to the editor in chief of Cahiers du Cinéma, which name it the best film of 2025: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/m...

“I’m calling from the future. Fascism is still around.”

“As the editors and critics of RogerEbert.com assembled to build their list, we settled on a crop of pictures both gargantuan in scope and intimate in tone,” writes Assistant Editor @clintworthing.bsky.social: Read the full piece on our top ten films in what has been a stellar year for movies:

#LAFCA I’m ecstatic that we have awarded THE SECRET AGENT the award for Best Film Not in the English Language. And it’s also the runner-up for Best Picture of the year. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 @lafilmcritics.bsky.social

#LAFCA Best Music goes to Kangding Ray for SIRÂT. Another inspired choice from our group

#LAFCA So happy that Best Cinematography went to Adolpho Veloso for TRAIN DREAMS! Wonderful win.

So thrilled to see my profile of Brazilian star Wagner Moura is print today on the cover of LA Times’ entertainment section! THE SECRET AGENT opens in LA today. You can read the piece here: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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...

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.

"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...

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...