Carlos Aguilar
@carlosfilm.bsky.social
Film critic/journalist. Mexican 🇲🇽 DACA. Bylines LA Times, New York Times, IndieWire, RogerEbert, Backstage
#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
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#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
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...
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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...
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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...
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.
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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...
Reposted by Carlos Aguilar
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...
Reposted by Carlos Aguilar
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