I enjoy that Official Competition really sends up that kind of brooding artist persona.

| Sep 2, 2022

This movie-making industry satire is witty, intelligent and saved from potentially unbearable navel-gazing by the warmth, talent and sheer charismatic chemistry of Cruz and Banderas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s Official Competition may be yet another satire on filmmaking, but it’s the rare iteration that’s nuanced enough to understand that self-awareness does not equal absolution.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2022

It dismantles the lofty ambitions of cinema as great, important and significant, a monument on the cultural landscape. Instead, it shows us art for ego’s sake, and it has a lot of wickedly spiteful fun doing so.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2022

[Cruz] has rarely been stronger on screen, as an idiosyncratic martinet who nonetheless finds moments of genius and tenderness between her leading men. A blast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2022

An uproarious comedy that’s also deliciously well-performed... this Spanish-language gem cleverly gets away with being both roast session and sneaky celebration at once.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat adeptly keep the comedy deadpan and timed with enough precision to prevent the film feeling like a long sketch from a 온라인카지노추천 variety show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Official Competition appears at first to be a standard movie-business takedown à la The Player, but it has far more faith in the art form than that. Among its tastiest pleasures is the chance to see Cruz and Banderas sparking together on screen at last.

| Aug 24, 2022

It’s a very funny film, sending-up human absurdities without being too mean. Cruz is a talented comedian, but she smartly plays it straight-ish here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

You know how most of the foreign language movies we get in the US are weighty, meaningful dramas? This one isn’t that. This one’s enjoyably silly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2022

In between the comic highlights, the script succeeds in planting some surprisingly revealing insights about the vanities and illusions of the theatrical life. It’s a very clever film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2022

As the art of filmmaking takes a punch in the face, audiences will love the pummeling and laugh themselves silly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2022

Chronicle humans at their worst... with visual wit and from a wry remove.

| Jun 30, 2022

Makes for a delightful satire and is always entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2022

This is like comedy for the mind. But whatever you want to call it, it’s intellectually satisfying, in that it presents a skewed but unified vision of reality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2022

As much fun as Cruz is clearly having, and that’s a lot, Banderas may be having even more.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2022

A sly satire of cinema that also manages to be a showcase for the comedic chops of its stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2022

Penélope Cruz underscores that she can just do anything. She is so funny in this.

| Jun 21, 2022

Everyone is so, so funny in this. I love this stage of Cruz's career.

| Jun 21, 2022

Cohn and Duprat are deliberately, deliciously playing into this discussion of talent vs. fame.... Banderas gives a sly, knowing performance that shows he knows exactly how vainglorious Félix can be

| Jun 17, 2022