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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz

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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz is a freelancer, whose work can be found at Fangirlish, CBR, Remezcla and others. Find Lizzie @lizziethat.

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10DANCE (2025) EDIT “The Netflix live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese BL (boys’ love) manga by Inouesatoh, has come to Netflix with great choreography, the same level of yearning, slightly less racism, and a story as incomplete as the manga. ” – Fangirlish Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Montana Mavericks (2025) EDIT “This is an easy, breezy, 90-minute movie that is easy to watch and hard to hate, but it’s also not the kind that’s likely to stick with you.” – Fangirlish Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Tessa Thompson embodies the good and the bad parts of the character of Hedda to a dizzying, terrifying, and wholly satisfying level.” – Fangirlish Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Intimate, powerful, and compelling, Frankenstein is both the kind of movie you can’t take your eyes off and the type that leaves you thinking long after the screen has faded to black.” – Remezcla Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Forastera (2025) 94% EDIT “Movies about grief can be a complicated watch, and yet Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’s Forastera is both a sad reminder that, at some point, it will find us all, and a story about how, sometimes, through pain, healing can be found.” – Fangirlish Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Nika & Madison (2025) EDIT “Nika & Madison is, above all, a story about friendship and what you would do for the people you love. And that is something we can all understand.” – Fangirlish Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Hamnet isn’t a story of grief, though it is. It isn’t a story of family, though it also is that. It’s not even a story about the power of, well, stories… but it is that too. Instead, Hamnet is an experience.” – Fangirlish Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% EDIT “Steve isn’t an easy movie to watch, and it’s not trying to be. But it’s a very well-constructed illustration of the importance of teachers and safe spaces for teenagers—even those who’ve made mistakes.” – Fangirlish Sep 14, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player is a somewhat slow and at times hollow character study that still manages to soar instead of sink, mostly because Colin Farrell gives it his absolute all. ” – Fangirlish Sep 14, 2025 Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 38% EDIT “Overall, Sacrifice is a worthwhile idea with messy execution that never takes any risks. And it pales in comparison to other films that have tried to tackle the “eat the rich” vibes this movie carries at its center.” – Fangirlish Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Laundry (2025) EDIT “Overall, Laundry feels like a powerful reminder that history is cyclical and that injustices perpetrated by a large group of people are not anomalies, but decisions made over and over again.” – Fangirlish Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Couture (2025) 62% EDIT “Alice Winocour’s Couture is a deeply emotional, often touching, and ultimately somewhat shallow look at how the lives of three very different women intersect during Paris Fashion Week.” – Fangirlish Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Lilly (2024) 58% EDIT “These days, happy endings feel like a dime a dozen. This isn’t a new happy ending, but it’s a happy ending nonetheless, and re-living it feels like a win.” – Fangirlish Aug 26, 2025 Full Review Before We Forget (2024) 85% EDIT “An engaging watch that adds to the narrative of queer storytelling, and one that cares not just about the story it’s telling, but about how that story fits in the grander scheme of what a person is and can be.” – Fangirlish Aug 17, 2025 Full Review The Queen of My Dreams (2023) 89% EDIT “The Queen of My Dreams is the kind of movie that proves there’s universality in the specifics of everyone’s experience, as long as the story is well told.” – Fangirlish Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025) EDIT “Zombies 4 is very much what you’d expect out of a movie within a franchise called Zombies that isn’t actually a scary movie, but a Disney Channel movie. That’s to say, it’s actually very fun, if not too deep.” – Fangirlish Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Liquor Bank (2025) 100% EDIT “Marcellus Cox’s Liquor Bank is a clear-eyed, emotional, and affecting look at not just the ways alcoholism affects a person, but the way it impacts the people around them, and shapes every relationship.” – Fangirlish Jul 9, 2025 Full Review G20 (2025) 55% EDIT “Action movies are supposed to be a little mindless, but in 2025, it’s hard to truly turn your mind off, even when you’re watching action movies. So, instead, it’s better to watch one that makes it very clear that it understands the world we live in.” – Fangirlish Apr 13, 2025 Full Review No Address (2025) EDIT “The human side of the problem is what makes No Adress so thought-provoking, and in the same way, so relatable.” – Fangirlish Mar 11, 2025 Full Review When I'm Ready (2025) EDIT “When I’m Ready is a quietly tragic, but still very poignant movie about finding happiness as the world around you ends—literally. ” – Fangirlish Feb 24, 2025 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 97% EDIT “The Count of Monte Cristo fails as both an adaptation of a beloved classic and a movie about either revenge or forgiveness.” – Fangirlish Jan 5, 2025 Full Review Girl Haunts Boy (2024) 92% EDIT “Ghost stories are a dime a dozen. Ghost stories that are actually about grief, about love, and about the joy that can be found, even in dark times, when someone else really, truly sees you, are very rare indeed.” – Fangirlish Oct 29, 2024 Full Review The Throwback (2024) EDIT “Being a mother is hard work. Justina Machado’s The Throwback, a hilarious family comedy about finding time for yourself, the power of familial love, and what it means to be a “supermom” can truly be summed up in that one sentence. ” – Fangirlish Jul 1, 2024 Full Review Hanky Panky (2023) 90% EDIT “Hanky Panky, however, is the right kind of silly movie. What does that mean? It means that there’s a moment where things get so absurd that you wonder if there was ever a plot, or if you just imagined there was. And yet, you never reach for the remote. ” – Fangirlish Jul 1, 2024 Full Review All That We Love (2024) 100% EDIT “All That We Love manages, somehow, to be both gentle and cathartic while also showcasing the selfishness and absentminded nature of grief.” – Fangirlish Jul 1, 2024 Full Review
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