Tag: Javier Gutierrez

The Motive | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review

Master of the Universe: Cuenca Returns with Predictable Exercise on the Writing Process If you can’t find a muse, make one. Or so might be...

Truman | Review

The Dog Stops Here: Gay’s Subtle Drama Grapples with Saying Goodbye Although it offers nothing thematically new on the clichéd scenario of the disease film,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 86. Manuel Martin Cuenca’s The Motive

The Motive Director: Manuel Martin Cuenca Writer: Alejandro Hernandez, Manuel Martin Cuenca Spanish director Manuel Martin Cuenca caught our attention with his fourth feature, the thriller Cannibal...

Marshland (La Isla Mínima) | Review

Caught in the Quagmire: Rodriguez’s Satisfying Period Neo-Noir Having swept the 2014 Goya Awards back home (winning ten of its sixteen nominations, including Best Film),...

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The Scary House | 2025 Udine Far East Film Festival Review

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