Manuel Betancourt

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Jun 23, 2026 There's a lot of layers to this campy, weird, shlocky comedy that's a lot smarter than what the premise would suggest. Go to Full Review She's the He (2025) 100% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 Still, boring, and listless, and there's a twist that had me rolling my eyes. Go to Full Review All the Devils Are Here (2025) 61% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 I really enjoyed the vibes of it all because it's really trying to capture a moment... The sense of surveillance feels integral rather than flashy. Go to Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 82% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 It was too baggy without enough focus for it really honor the legacy of Rocky Horror. Go to Full Review Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) 98% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 Pop culture anthropology at its best. Go to Full Review Predators (2025) 97% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 I was trying to think if I've seen a worse Emma Thompson movie, and I couldn't come up with anything. Go to Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 76% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 June Squibb is doing fantastic work, but for the most part I was baffled by the very concept of the movie. Go to Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 68% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 It's so nimble, fleet-footed and moves with such pace that you really are along for this ride from the beginning. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 You're always good when you're with Marc Maron. Go to Full Review Are We Good? (2025) 97% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 Any movie that gives me Marion Cotillard smoking a cigarette and staring out into space was always going to be in my wheelhouse. Go to Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 81% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 It all felt a bit slight and familiar. Go to Full Review Fairyland (2023) 96% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 As a piece of disaster filmmaking, this is amazing, and it'll probably hit very close to home to a lot of us. Go to Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 87% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 There's a muffled sensibility throughout that I think speaks to how [Benny Safdie] was trying to capture Mark Kerr, but to me, all it did was deflate the tension both in the fights and in the personal stuff. Go to Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 71% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 What a lovely, lovely, small film -- and I say "small" as a compliment. Go to Full Review Outerlands (2025) - - - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 It feels like you're just reading a Wikipedia page of Pagnol. Go to Full Review A Magnificent Life (2025) 61% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 Schematically, this is kind of the perfect rom-com, but the high-concept gets so needlessly convoluted. Go to Full Review Eternity (2025) 76% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 For what it is and what it's trying to do, it's a perfectly fine animated film. Go to Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 92% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 This is a movie designed for me to love, and I came away from it dry-[eyed]. Go to Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 What really sets it up to be more than just a murder mystery is that Johnson is really in these larger questions. Here, we're being presented with two ways of embracing the world. Go to Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% - -

Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025 The story feels both too small and trying to telegraph things that are too big. Go to Full Review The Choral (2025) 66% - -