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Santa Monica Mirror is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dolores Quintana.

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The Long Walk (2025) Dolores Quintana This is Francis Lawrence’s best film by miles. Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson aced it, but the whole cast is great. The movie is 100% ruthless and beautifully empathetic at the same time. JT Mollner’s script is note-perfect.
Posted Sep 13, 2025Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Dolores Quintana Weapons weaponizes our own belief in the status quo and safety, sending a spike of fear through your brain. It’s the terror of the world attacking you for no reason that you understand, and there’s no way to stop it.
Posted Aug 09, 2025Edit critic review
Together (2025) Dolores Quintana Together is an eerily apt romantic horror comedy for the 21st Century. The darker sides of love, sacrifice, the pain of loss, and how love requires you to open yourself up to another person
Posted Aug 09, 2025Edit critic review
Dangerous Animals (2025) Dolores Quintana It is engrossing, gory, and, above all, filled with the excitement of summer. If you love quality scary movies, Dangerous Animals is made just for you.
Posted Aug 09, 2025Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) Dolores Quintana Danny and Michael Philippou’s second film is one of the best films of 2025 and shows that the brothers’ talents should not be underestimated. Stunning, raw, yet comfy as a warm sweater, until the moment when it steals the breath from your lungs.
Posted Aug 09, 2025Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Dolores Quintana Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning is a ridiculously entertaining action film with a core of what humanity needs now.
Posted Aug 09, 2025Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Dolores Quintana The Monkey is gob-stoppingly hilarious to behold and filled with existential thoughts about life and death. Even though The Monkey is brimming with bloody carnage and festive annihilation, it struck me as a very personal film.
Posted Apr 10, 2025Edit critic review
A Working Man (2025) Dolores Quintana A Working Man is exactly what its name implies: meat and potatoes vigilante action, nothing too fancy, but a good meal just the same.
Posted Apr 10, 2025Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Dolores Quintana Emotional carnage, steadfast courage, and villainy among stark white Italian marble and the fields of Philadelphia create an ambitious and extraordinary canvas of the human soul in Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold’s film, The Brutalist.
Posted Jan 01, 2025Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Dolores Quintana Claws encased in a velvet glove. The audience helplessly feels Death’s wings enveloping the characters. Robert Egger’s newest film Nosferatu is a commanding sensual seduction drawing us into evil’s embrace
Posted Jan 01, 2025Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Dolores Quintana Wicked is magical. It forgoes the artificial spectacle of certain other fantasy tales by concentrating on the acting: emotions and relationships of the characters, then layering everything else on top
Posted Jan 01, 2025Edit critic review
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Dolores Quintana Venom: The Last Dance was very enjoyable and kind of sweet for a movie where a monster eats people’s heads. Basically, the movie is grounded in human emotion and characterization rather than spectacle which is why it is successful for me.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Dolores Quintana Anora is the fragile human soul wrapped in a Russian sable, suffused with hope that can roar into blinding rage.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
The Platform 2 (2024) Dolores Quintana The Platform 2 is an unflinchingly ugly and beautiful depiction of humanity at its best and worst, showing our capacity for rage and violence as well as our potential for love, forgiveness, and understanding.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) Dolores Quintana Harold and the Purple Crayon is a joyous celebration of art and love that is kept from being sublime only by the performance of its lead actor. The supporting cast does wonderful and amusing work that would have been better served by a stronger lead.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Dolores Quintana Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is beautiful madness and pure cinematic bliss—epic storytelling packed with fiery mayhem and so much more.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
Strange Darling (2023) Dolores Quintana Strange Darling is filled with shocks, surprises, humor, and a deep understanding and sympathy for humanity, including the human that would usually be considered the villain. It is a beautiful and ethereal ode to humanity and the roots of human evil.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Dolores Quintana The Substance is one of 2024’s best films, both a cinematic dream and nightmare, that pushes the envelope way beyond the norm, and glories in its own audacity... a breathtaking and sumptuous work of art that screams in your face while blowing you a kiss.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Dolores Quintana Hauntingly heartwarming and frightfully funny, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a goth valentine to the terror of the living.
Posted Nov 11, 2024Edit critic review
Longlegs (2024) Dolores Quintana Longlegs is a mesmerizing serial killer tale that swallows the viewer whole. The feeling of being inside the head of a serial killer or an intense FBI agent has never been so enrapturing and seductive.
Posted Jun 18, 2024Edit critic review
DIG! XX (2024) Dolores Quintana DIG! XX is magnificent and fiery, an artistic telling of a story that is frequently misunderstood because of our society’s tendency to put a premium on obedience rather than free will, even in art.
Posted Apr 24, 2024Edit critic review
Arcadian (2024) Dolores Quintana With beautiful imagery, scary monsters, and strong performances, Arcadian is a winner as an individualistic kind of humanistic horror film that leans into the relationships between the survivors and their quirks rather than huge amounts of gore.
Posted Apr 24, 2024Edit critic review
4/4
The Other Conquest (1998) Sasha Stone Along the lines of Spielberg's Schindler's List -- at once moving and painful to watch.
Posted Jun 18, 2007Edit critic review
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