The Film Critic

Apr 17, 2014

1h 30m

★ 6.5

What if your life became a movie that you hate?

Overview

Víctor Tellez is an intellectual, world-weary film critic who prefers to think in French and eschew the clichés of romantic movies...until he finds himself living a sappy, feel-good love story of his own.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

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Cast

Víctor Tellez

Rafael Spregelburd

Sofía

Dolores Fonzi

Pinni

Blanca Lewin

Leandro Arce

Ignacio Rogers

Ágatha

Telma Crisanti

Roxana

Ana Katz

Shuster

Daniel Kargieman

Gorodisch

Eduardo Iacono

Margulis

Marcelo Subiotto

Marta

Gabriela Ferrero

Jefe

Pino Siano

Nélida

Marta Paccamicci

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

6.0

The Red Star

Jul 29, 2021

The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.

4.5

Felicitas

Jun 11, 2009

Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?

5.0

Capital (Todo el mundo va a Buenos Aires)

Nov 2, 2007

A broken heart makes Sergio reject the city......A city full of late adolescents, girls that make you cry, drunks worried about matters they couldn´t handle even sober...and songs that say all that they would have wanted to say (if they knew that they needed to say something)

7.2

Last Days of the Victim

Apr 8, 1982

Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.

3.7

Angels with Broken Wings

May 27, 1941

Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams

7.5

Play It Again, Sam

May 4, 1972

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.

5.5

El balancín de Iván

Apr 12, 2002

Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.

0.0

The sky above us

Jan 1, 2020

Bianca receives the visit of Eloísa, her dead girlfriend, who wants to stay

3.3

Charlotte

Nov 26, 1974

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.

5.6

Conversations with Mother

Apr 15, 2004

Jaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!

6.5

A Slight Case of Murder

Sep 19, 1999

In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator, who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli, a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit, and Stapelli's wife, Patricia, are roped into the case.

7.6

Happy Together

May 30, 1997

A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.

7.0

Hunting Season

Sep 14, 2017

La Patagonia, southern Argentina. After his mother's death, Nahuel, a violent teenager, meets his biological father, Ernesto, a skillful hunting guide; but their reunion is harsh, since their souls are only ruled by pride and resentment.

6.3

Elegy

Aug 8, 2008

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

5.8

The Window

Mar 12, 2009

It is a significant day for 80 year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special champagne an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them-- But before, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees light and life, the past and the pr

8.5

Yo tenía un plazo fijo

Jan 1, 1990

Two friends are looking to earn easy money by gathering people to help them deposit a large sum of money in a fixed term of seven days, to live on the interests, which are higher the greater the amount deposited. This has immediate consequences on the lifestyle of the characters, who are increasingly ambitious. Portrait of the Argentine middle class in full hyperinflation, when financial speculation was the order of the day by the man in the street.

0.0

El mundo que inventamos

Feb 22, 1973

A provincial man comes to the big city and finds true love.