Carlos Esquives
Carlos Esquives's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)
77%
“Pedro Pinho presents us with an almost irreconcilable scenario. Despite this, the director doesn't dare to exterminate his protagonist's idealism. All in all, there's a certain brutal optimism in this film. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
May 20, 2025
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Sleepless City (2025)
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“This is a film that could well be interpreted as a clear alternative to ending the days of the Cañada Real. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
May 20, 2025
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Death Does Not Exist (2025)
83%
“Félix Dufour-Laperriere's film is like a pass into limbo, a moment for its heroine to observe and discern her earthly thoughts and then return to reality to create her own paradise. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
May 16, 2025
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The Message (2025)
92%
“... a film full of humanity and an honest and warm portrait of human relationships. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Feb 26, 2025
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Home Sweet Home (2025)
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“...a portrait with a lot of emotional empathy. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Feb 18, 2025
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Hysteria (2025)
91%
“...the film takes on an absurd, almost slapstick quality. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay approaches this difficult-to-heal event with a sense of humor. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Feb 18, 2025
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GEN_ (2025)
100%
“The key to [GEN_ ] is to demonstrate how complex and diverse the reasoning behind fertility treatments and sex change interventions are. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Jan 29, 2025
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The Virgin of the Quarry Lake (2025)
79%
“The discovery of [Natalia's] sexuality, her friendships or family ties, as well as her expectations for the future, are flawed. And, obviously, there is no evidence of a mature voice to correct her. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Jan 29, 2025
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They Will Be Dust (2024)
100%
“This is definitively not a family movie looking to create Kodak moments. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Nov 6, 2024
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Youth (Homecoming) (2024)
94%
“Because much of the story happens in provincial areas, the audience becomes a privileged observer of actions that have not yet been affected by modernity. It is a bittersweet farewell to the characters. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 16, 2024
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Seven Days (2024)
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“Ali Samadi Ahadi delivers a story that finds ambiguous reasoning. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 16, 2024
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A Road to a Village (2023)
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“A Road to a Village is reminiscent of Roberto Rossellini or Vittorio De Sica's neorealism, who presented stories of unfortunate people considering to take actions that could take them out of their misery. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 16, 2024
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Gamma Rays (2023)
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“Henry Bernadet creates a series of fables about characters creating their identity, in ways that cannot be reduced to ethnic stereotypes. These adolescents are aware that they are the synthesis of social diversity. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Oct 31, 2023
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The Rye Horn (2023)
88%
“A movie plagued by ambiguity, paradoxes, and dilemmas. ” –
Cinencuentro
Oct 18, 2023
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Gamma Rays (2023)
100%
“Without falling into moral speeches or lessons, Bernadet depicts reflective young adults. [Full review in Spanish] ” –
Cinencuentro
Oct 11, 2023
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A Silence (2023)
81%
“A silence is a movie about serial negligence and a study about how hypocrisy has assumed a public identity. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 26, 2023
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The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
88%
“The director, besides feeling drawn by the chaotic beauty of nature, has a profound weakness for those he identifies as equals... Those who put mortality aside to focus on the poetry that is conceived between calm and destruction. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 19, 2023
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Yana-Wara (2023)
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“Yana-Wara is proof that cultures, no matter how diverse or unfamiliar, express universality, a point of intersection that puts them in dialogue with each other. [Full review in Spanish] ” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 18, 2023
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
90%
“A fun vampiric comedy that feeds on blood and, above all, on the insecurities born out of familiar and social situations intervening with people who walk to the beat of their own drum. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 13, 2023
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God is a Woman (2023)
100%
“The stimulating part about this movie isn't the demand and reencounter with filmed memory, but rather that state of reflection that Kuna members promote and that transpires while examining their culture. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 11, 2023
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En attendant la nuit (2024)
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“Céline Rouzet makes her own dramatic version of a misunderstood generation, told from a personal an affectionate perspective. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 11, 2023
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Through the Night (2023)
90%
“This is an intelligent film. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 5, 2023
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Making of (2023)
60%
“As a consequence of this dialectic between fiction and fact, Kahn makes us notice that the development of a film can't be reduced to artistic debate. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Sep 5, 2023
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The Barbarians (2023)
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“Andrew Sala mixes the western with the thriller, but also uses social complexes to create a pressure cooker and tear down fantasies manufactured by genre cinema. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Aug 23, 2023
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I Have Electric Dreams (2022)
100%
“I Have Electric Dreams is replete with endearing moments. [Full review in Spanish]” –
Cinencuentro
Aug 22, 2023
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