Film Review: What to Watch in November (2021)

Film critic Alejandro A. Riera offers his list of the films and shows to watch this November.
Film critic Alejandro A. Riera offers his list of the films and shows to watch this November.
Film critic Alejandro A. Riera walks us through some of the Latin movies and filmmakers whose works have slipped through the cracks of cinema history.
In ‘Cry Macho,’ director and star Clint Eastwood returns to his recurring themes of Mexicans and American machismo.
Argentine director Andreas Fontana’s ‘Azor’ shows the moral price we all pay when governments come after others as we quietly watch from the sidelines.
Iran’s ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ brings together seven filmmakers from across the globe, each with a meditation on life during Year One of COVID.
João Paulo Miranda Maria’s feature debut is the latest Brazilian film about that country’s racist, colonialist and xenophobic legacy
Esteemed film critic Alejandro A. Riera offers his list of Latin American and Spanish movies to watch in September.
Rodrigo Reyes’s documentary-fiction hybrid ‘499’ offers a corrective to the old Eurocentric narrative of Spain’s conquest of Aztec Mexico