Juan Barquin

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice opens on a portrait of perfection, with a family sharing a meal outside together, prompted by a gift of food from the father’s job. Everything about this opening is comically idyllic, down to the sickly sheen of the cinema... See more

Ever since the continuing rise of the blockbuster, especially in our Marvelized era, there has been something of a dearth of truly mature and adult thrillers. This has been especially true for political thrillers, a subgenre that has found itself unable t... See more

Exploring the afterlife has always been on the minds of artists, be it ages of musings via literature and religion or just the past century of cinematic attempts at capturing what might exist beyond our current existence. A24’s latest romantic comedy, Ete... See more

Anticipation. Jon M Chu’s decision to split Wicked into two films seemed misguided at best. Enjoyment. Ariana Grande is a breath of fresh air practically any time she shows up. In Retrospect. Splitting this musical into two parts reveals all its flaws and... See more

To watch Ugo Bienvenu’s Arco is to be thrown back to a time when children’s movies weren’t just an onslaught of the same thing over and over again. Arco is a film that is comfortable just being itself, sidestepping any overexplanation and instead instantl... See more