Emilio Miguel Torres

Emilio Miguel Torres

🇵🇷 filmmaker & filmlover 🇲🇽

Favorite films

  • The Ladder
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Chungking Express

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  • Prisoners

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

  • The Ladder

    ★★★★★

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  • Prisoners

    Prisoners

    ★★★★½

    excellent and extremely entertaining - been on my watch list far too long.

    despite the amazing screenplay and direction that expertly explored themes about faith, penance, justice, belief in our systems, trust… it does feel like just a bit more nuance from a specific climactic character and maybe just frankly full send freakiness with that twist would have made it a perfect 5 star for me but u gotta make sure the movie works for ideally a wide audience so…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    i found this film in conversation with a lot of the themes i thought about while making the ladder which felt interesting to experience as i’ve been doing a lot of writing and having a lot of conversations *about* said themes lately. though, to have to follow up on the excellence of parasite is no easy task and i don’t know if i was in love with everything about this movie

    it touched on trumpism in a fun way, which…

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  • Life in a Year

    Life in a Year

    ½

    An itemized list of the the 10 biggest sins this film commits:
    1. Chris D'elia plays a drag queen.
    2.We are told to believe a wild hedgehog could be found on the streets of New York City.
    3. Cuba Gooding Jr. almost beats his child and his only punishment is sleeping on a couch. 
    4. Big Sean is portrayed as a good rapper.
    5. A character exists purely for the film to be fatphobic in a really weird and unfunny…

  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    ★★

    Part of me genuinely feels that maybe the aspects of this film that simply don’t work aren’t really relevant as I could see it being incredibly healing for people. And therefore problems I had with this film don’t cancel out the chance of it having an important and positive cultural impact. However, the way the proposed closure on Chadwick Boseman is approached and the constant awareness that Disney is potentially directly profiting off of a collective grief feels so scummy. …