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Movie Reviews by Concepción De León - Page 1 of 2

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Review of Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 17 Aug 2023

There are some laughs and the cast is talented, but the movie ultimately falls flat, missing an opportunity to delve into the insecurity,…

Review of Chupa (2023)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 06 Apr 2023

Though the concept is promising, and some moments are tender, one wishes the film had delved deeper into the chupacabra myth and the…

Review of Love in the Time of Fentanyl (2023)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Feb 2023

Though at times the film’s narrative momentum and focus on its subjects is lacking, it shows that drug users, to whom the drug crisis is…

Review of The Sound of Christmas (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 23 Nov 2022

The relationship between Montana and the kids is a highlight, as are some of the other secondary relationships…

Review of Bantú Mama (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 17 Nov 2022

It’s a quiet film that stays close to the central characters, but it could have benefited from broadening its view, giving context to…

Review of The First Noelle (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Nov 2022

It’s hard to become immersed in this aspirational alternate reality because of the movie’s pun-filled and often unbelievable dialogue,…

Review of From the Hood to the Holler (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 29 Sep 2022

Though Booker’s story and success are inspiring, the documentary falls flat, feeling more like a political tool than a commentary on the…

Review of Easter Sunday (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 05 Aug 2022

Easter Sunday is at its strongest when it stays close to the Valencia family, which is made for TV…

Review of Paradise Highway (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 28 Jul 2022

If only the film had taken a broader view, filling in more details about the lives and motivations of the truck drivers as well as the sex…

Review of The Deer King (2021)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Jul 2022

The film is tenderly wrought and brilliantly animated, with transitions that emphasize the communion between the land and the human body…

Review of Beba (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Jun 2022

Beba is profound…

Review of Father of the Bride (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Jun 2022

Father of the Bride shows the sort of rich cultural representation that can happen when people from the cultures being represented are…

Review of Dinner in America (2020)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 May 2022

There is, perhaps, an argument to be made for representing a time and place truthfully, but because the film does not critically engage…

Review of Hold Your Fire (2021)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 May 2022

The film’s intention may have been to highlight the negotiator’s achievement, but it appears that it was public pressure, as much as…

Review of Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Apr 2022

Cech is believable as a troubled teenager, and it’s refreshing to see an Asian American girl as a protagonist, but the film has a limited…

Review of Women of the White Buffalo (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Apr 2022

Though the film lacks a clear narrative arc, put together, these stories draw a line between the historical genocide and displacement…

Review of Family Squares (2022)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Feb 2022

Filmed during quarantine in 2020, Family Squares uses the communication tools of the pandemic era to deliver a film with the intimacy of a…

Review of Silent Night (2021)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Dec 2021

The characters, despite their histrionic representation of the wealthy class, are not compelling enough to carry the movie, nor are the…

Review of She Paradise (2021)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 18 Nov 2021

Though Nestor’s understated performance is powerful at times, one leaves the film not fully satisfied, wanting for a stronger arc…

Review of Love Hard (2021)

By Concepción De León (22) for The New York Times (9,847) on 05 Nov 2021

In presenting a female character who is attractive, but bereft of substance, the movie subverts its own premise…

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Concepción De León has written 22 movie reviews between 29 Jul 2021 and 17 Aug 2023.

This film critic has awarded movies a score of 56% on average.

Concepción De León has awarded high ratings to The Deer King (2021) and Beba (2022). Read some of the reviews on this page to find out why Concepción De León liked these movies so much.

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