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Ernesto Diezmartinez

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Biography:

Ernesto Diezmartínez was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, México, in 1966. He has been continually writing about the movies in several newspapers and magazines since the 80s. He has been publishing his own specialized column about the subject in the Mexican newspaper Reforma until 2018 and since then, in the Mexican-Spanish magazine Letras Libres. He teaches Cinema Studies in Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Diezmartínez has been a juror in several international film festivals. He is a member of FIPRESCI and of the Critics Choice Association.

Official Website:

http://www.ernestodiezmartinez.com/

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “"The third installment of the adventures of detective Benoit Blanc is more than an anti-Trump allegory: it is a reflection on faith and redemption". [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “"Yorgos Lanthimos's latest film responds to the pessimistic spirit of the present age with a devastating laugh of black humor". [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “"Train Dreams is a serene epic film that follows its protagonist as he travels from one century to the next, while trying to understand the meaning of his life". [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Jan 8, 2026 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “"In her latest film, Kathryn Bigelow portrays an American establishment that seems ready to face any threat. At least, until it materializes".[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Jan 8, 2026 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “"It's arguable whether One Battle After Another is the PTA's masterpiece. It's undoubtedly the most urgent and openly political film he's ever made". [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Life of Chuck, a thoughtful melodrama based very faithfully on a Stephen King story, addresses life’s big questions by following the trail of a famous Whitman poem.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Keep Quiet (2025) 2.5/4 EDIT “"We'll see if Phillips is nominated for this performance early next year". [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Chain Reactions (2024) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “This documentary examines why, 50 years after its release, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre continues to cast a spell on Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Karyn Kusama, Patton Oswalt, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% 374 EDIT “"In her latest film, Andrea Arnold creates a narrative universe in which the harsh world of a teenage girl merges with the fantastic". [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Oct 22, 2025 Full Review 1978 (2024) 2.5/4 EDIT “"The final of a World Cup is the background noise of a film where the real horror of the dictatorship's violence blends with the paranormal. [Full review in Spanish]"” – Letras Libres Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Mexican Dream (2023) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “Magdalena is trying to rebuild her life, picking up the pieces of a failed marriage and the loss of custody of her children. Heartbreaking but hopeful. [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse (2024) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film doesn't offer much new ground in its plot —an initial twist is more than predictable—but it does offer a touching look at this nuclear family that wants to stay together even though the world is crumbling around them. [Full review in Spanish] ” – Letras Libres May 18, 2025 Full Review The Devil's Bath (2024) 91% 3/4 EDIT “In their fourth feature film, their best to date, Austrian directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz confirm their ability to revitalize the very meaning of horror cinema.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “Cinema is more than just one frame after another; it can serve as a warning of the world to come. Take Bong Joon-ho's "Mickey 17," for example...[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Better Man (2024) 89% 3/4 EDIT “2024, which heralded the glorious return of the musical, was one of the worst years for this genre. An exception is the biopic of singer Robbie Williams, with its splendid choreography and interesting plot.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Walter Salles portrays the horror of the Brazilian dictatorship, while reminding us that happiness is the most sublime form of resistance.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 71% 0/4 EDIT “Risky and unconventional, yet exotic and clumsy, “Emilia Pérez” encapsulates director Jacques Audiard’s authorial vision and showcases it at its worst. A disgrace.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film works as an entertaining spy thriller set in the corridors of the Vatican, but also as a serene reflection on commitment, power and faith.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% 3/4 EDIT “The Spanish director's latest film is packed with cinematic references and homages, but it's not just cinema: it's a subversive story of friendship and communion.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “In “Queer,” a daring Luca Guadagnino leaves behind any conventional narrative and follows the steps of his protagonist in a trance induced by an addictive drug: cinema.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review The Piano Lesson (2024) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Malcolm Washington explores the repercussions of his traumatic past on the difficult present of his African American characters in his debut feature, an adaptation of a play by August Wilson.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 2/4 EDIT “Ridley Scott's film fails not because of its obvious anachronisms and spectacular exaggerations, but because it attempts, amidst all of this, a thematic seriousness.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Coup de Chance (2023) 84% 3/4 EDIT “In his latest film, Allen remains true to himself and to the themes that have preoccupied him: love, death, chance, and the precariousness of the existing order.[Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “The documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” presents all the facets, both the most admirable and the less so, of the greatest Man of Steel cinema has ever produced. [Full review in Spanish]” – Letras Libres Apr 30, 2025 Full Review A Thousand Pines (2023) 2.5/4 EDIT “It is a well-known story, but Díaz and Osban present it to us with respect, empathy and even admiration. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cine Vértigo Feb 14, 2025 Full Review
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