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Yasser Medina

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Biography:

Yasser Medina is a Dominican Republic-based editor, essayist, and film critic. A member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), he contributes to film criticism in prominent Dominican outlets. Since 2010, he has edited the website Cinefilia.blog, where he passionately reviews every film he watches, offering in-depth analysis of mainstream, classic, and art-house cinema.

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Location:

Dominican Republic

Official Website:

https://www.cinefilia.blog

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Dead for a Dollar (2022) 53% 4/10 EDIT “I find it a cheap, conventional, incredibly boring western, lacking in excitement and riding at an erratic pace with the outlaws played by Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie (2021) 96% 6/10 EDIT “Its animation has some technical skill in character design and some action sequences drawn by MAPPA, but its narrative, beneath the calculated spectacularity, gives me the feeling that it simply lacks strength. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Way Back (2020) 84% 6/10 EDIT “It's a well-intentioned sports drama about guilt and redemption, which benefits from a restrained performance by Ben Affleck, but whose narrative sometimes stumbles over generic formulas. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Vanilla Sky (2001) 41% 4/10 EDIT “Frankly, I find it a tiring and unbearably dull film starring Tom Cruise, one that makes me want to close my eyes when it descends into the abyss of psychological thriller and speculative science fiction. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 6/10 EDIT “A police thriller that benefits to some extent from the duo of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, but whose heist narrative often treads familiar ground, preventing it from escaping the conventional. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 19, 2026 Full Review The Delta Force (1986) 14% 2/10 EDIT “It's a boring action thriller about international terrorism and special operations, which only works as a simplistic propaganda vehicle for Chuck Norris's empty self-aggrandizement. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 17, 2026 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 92% 4/10 EDIT “Frankly, I find it a superficial, boring, and aesthetically inconsistent animated film that squanders its narrative opportunities by subordinating its characters to a convoluted discourse on identity. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Structure of Crystal (1969) 7/10 EDIT “A moving, critical drama in which Zanussi demonstrates intellectual maturity and a rigorous aesthetic to question, in each scene, the individual's need to think about morality under conditions of sociopolitical constraint. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) 33% 5/10 EDIT “Personally, I find the performances of Bogart and Stanwyck uneven, but I also feel that it's a psychological thriller with gothic suspense pretensions that ends up being an exercise in sustained boredom. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 10, 2026 Full Review The End of St. Petersburg (1928) 75% 6/10 EDIT “Personally, I find that Pudovkin's strengths lie in the eclectic montage that synthesizes the bloody passages of the Revolution, but, in general, his narrative lacks dramatic pulse in its discursive thesis on class struggle. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 5/10 EDIT “As a psychological thriller, it offers decent performances from Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, but its narrative about domestic violence and toxic masculinity frequents too many clichés before becoming hopelessly boring. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Night Before Christmas (1905) 6/10 EDIT “Despite Porter's talents for special effects, this is a silent short film about Santa Claus that lacks charm. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 4, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 6/10 EDIT “Despite featuring understated performances from Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, I get the impression that this Zhao film is a bit regular and repetitive in its drama about Shakespearean family tragedy. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% 5/10 EDIT “Personally, I think it's a Laxe road drama that has some atmospheric panoramas, but often the narrative about immigrants and illegal raves through the Moroccan desert loses its trail like footprints in the sand. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 28, 2025 Full Review Light of the World (2025) 80% 6/10 EDIT “It has a well-intentioned approach evident in the beautiful traditional animation and biblical character design, but its family-friendly, catechetical narrative about the life of Jesus often remains in somewhat predictable ground. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 4/10 EDIT “A terribly dull trifle, lacking any trace of depth in its revisionism of gender roles. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 6/10 EDIT “Tsou's approach is often reflected in the urban atmospheres of Taipei and the decent performances led by Janel Tsai, but unfortunately, I feel there is little emotional depth to its subject matter of maternal sacrifice. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Arco (2025) 91% 5/10 EDIT “Despite its beautiful animation, I find it to be a weak animated film that travels through commonplaces without offering anything complex, often about metaphors on environmentalism, hope and loss of innocence. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 5/10 EDIT “A dull and unnecessarily long sequel, which flounders in a repetitive spectacle of pyrotechnics, family, and tribal battles. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 7/10 EDIT “A gripping political thriller in which Filho, with a dense aesthetic, captures the state of paranoia and cultural amnesia in the face of the historical memory of a military regime, with a powerful performance by Wagner Moura. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Elio (2025) 83% 4/10 EDIT “It's one of Pixar's worst films, a boring and unfunny cosmic adventure that gets lost in a black hole of generic formulas. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 5/10 EDIT “It evokes a certain beauty in the naturalistic atmospheres that take advantage of Joel Edgerton's understated presence, but sometimes I get the feeling that as a drama isn't going anywhere in particular and gets lost in the woods. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 5/10 EDIT “To be honest, I find it a bland and manipulative drama by Ben Hania, set against a rather Manichean political backdrop that is intended to be a cry of helplessness against the voices silenced by war. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 5/10 EDIT “Despite the visual details of its animation design, I find it a boring sequel that gets lost in recycled jokes and predictable chases that lead nowhere in particular. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 5/10 EDIT “It usually offers a decent performance from a visibly tired George Clooney as a fading actor, but as a dramedy it loses all its appeal in its self-indulgent and boring European excursion. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Dec 6, 2025 Full Review
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