Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Rafael SpregelburdVíctor Tellez
- Dolores FonziSofía
- Blanca LewinPinni
- Ignacio RogersLeandro Arce
- Telma CrisantiÁgatha
- Ana KatzRoxana
- Daniel KargiemanShuster
- Eduardo IaconoGorodisch
- Marcelo SubiottoMargulis
- Gabriela FerreroMarta
Recommendations
- 63
RogerEbert.com
The Film Critic takes a light and knowing tone, spoofing the sacred cows of the critic world, and cramming every scene with visual film clichés that act like a "Where's Waldo?" of cinema. - 50
The Dissolve
The whole movie is encased in air quotes, and its sole purpose, apart from that winking, is to argue that even artsy-fartsy grumps secretly identify with Hollywood wish-fulfillment. Would Guerschuny the film critic have liked The Film Critic? If so, he’s a soft touch. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Although the meta-style conceit is fun, it doesn't fully kick in until the film's midpoint. Until then it's a sluggish, fairly dour ride. - 40
Village Voice
Criticism mutated long ago, after the internet's floodgates opened, and that outmoded disconnect between The Film Critic and today's film critics underscores how the persistent references to cinema and film writing are self-awarely mimicking clichés but not subverting them. - 40
The New York Times
The Film Critic is at once too clever by half and not as smart as it pretends to be. - 25
Slant Magazine
It perverts cinephilia by asserting that anyone who engages in criticism actually, deep down, wants to be a practicing artist.