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

Lucas and Mateo are brothers and have a distant and somewhat conflictive relationship. What seems to be just another morning becomes the beginning of a new stage in their lives. When they wake up, they notice that their mother is not at home and they wait for her to return, but that moment will never come.

7.6

Arsenic and Old Lace

Sep 1, 1944

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!

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.

6.1

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Mar 31, 1960

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.

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.

6.7

The Man Who Loved UFOs

Oct 10, 2024

In the late 1980s, journalist José de Zer seeks proof of alien life in Argentina — even if he has to fake evidence — causing a surreal media circus.

7.4

The Mission

Sep 6, 1986

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

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.

6.9

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Dec 24, 1941

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

6.7

Theatre of Blood

Mar 16, 1973

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

5.5

The Widows of Thursdays

Sep 10, 2009

The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident.

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.

7.0

Moles

Sep 13, 2012

A post-apocalyptic universe. A metropolis of two societies. On the surface, a regime that isolates the individuals in elite. A whole city scraped in the underground, where survival is the only law. Up and down don’t merge. Yet the Mole will climb up to fulfil his dreams.

6.9

Bombón El Perro

Sep 23, 2004

Patagonia, Argentina. A mechanic who dreams of a different life begins to think big after his adopted puppy Bombón wins first prize at a local dog show.

8.0

The Secret in Their Eyes

Aug 13, 2009

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

6.7

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Mar 6, 1921

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.

6.5

Wild Horses

Aug 10, 1995

A man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.

6.1

Morning Glory

Aug 18, 1933

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?