Cristina Escobar

Santa Fe

Co-Founder, Latina Media at latinamedia.co

Co-founder @LatinaMediaCo. Contributor @Popsugar @EbertVoices y más. TEDx speaker, R🍅 approved @CriticsChoice @LEJALatino https://t.co/MSf71xYaYU

Articles

"Nine Perfect Strangers'" Second Season is Less Insightful, Still Somewhat Fun

2 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Cristina Escobar

"Nine Perfect Strangers" started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom psychedelic therapies. The second season duplicates that formula with a new set of nine strangers, this time in the snowy Swiss Alps.
Top Off Women's History Month with 8 Trailblazing Latina Authors

2 months ago | latinamedia.co | Saraciea Fennell |Carolina Blanco Alvarado |Cristina Escobar |Sarah Vasquez

It’s the last day of Women’s History Month and what better way to keep the celebration going than ordering a bunch of books by and for trailblazing Latina authors? To help, we’re shining a light on the amazing mujeres who paved the way in the publishing industry by stacking awards. These barrier-breaking Latinas are here to inspire the rest of us.
Spanish-Language Limited Series Making a New Telenovela Format

2 months ago | latinamedia.co | Edgary Rodriguez R |Carolina Blanco Alvarado |Cristina Escobar |Sarah Vasquez

Have you noticed how many times you interrupt a TV show to scroll through your phone? You’re not alone, it’s an addictive behavior shared by the masses and it has affected what shows get made. Although many Latino viewers may think they want more epic telenovela stories, every day we have less time to dedicate to any single story.
Women Develop New Models of Heroism in Festival Docs

Mar 6, 2025 | rogerebert.com | Cristina Escobar

Everyone loves a hero. We're awash with heroic stories in film and TV, decades into the comic-book-turned-movie blockbuster. In fact, we've had so many of these stories that there's a bona fide backlash now, with countless films whose taglines could be "not all heroes wear capes."'Now, whether they're wearing spandex or not, most motion picture heroes are men. The very word "hero" conjures a masculine figure, standing in the Superman position, legs spread, arms akimbo.
"Daredevil: Born Again" is an Imperfect Interrogation of Our Current Moment

Mar 4, 2025 | rogerebert.com | Cristina Escobar

"Daredevil: Born Again" is uneven, but the ambitious nine-part series lands plenty of punches if you go in knowing that it positions comic-book fare not as escapist entertainment but as bloody, political commentary. First, the disappointments. Like many a reboot/sequel before it, this new Marvel entry doesn't get going until its second episode, spending the pilot completely on set-up.
"The Brutalist" Reveals Modern Truths about Immigration

Feb 26, 2025 | latinamedia.co | Edgary Rodriguez R |Cristina Escobar

I cried in the middle of the street on my first day working for an NGO in Madrid. A Ukrainian boy told me his story – he had survived the war and was now walking alone in the roads of a country that was not his own, with a language he barely understood. His whole family was killed. At times, his story overshadows the many experiences I heard, although none is any less valuable than the other.
"Suits: LA" Is Dumb, Glossy Nothingness

Feb 21, 2025 | rogerebert.com | Cristina Escobar

"Suits: LA" is dumb. This is a show where one character tells another, "You have a lot of flaws," and it's supposed to come off as insightful and not something that could be said about, well, anyone. In the pilot, the attorneys at Ted Black's firm repeat the phrase "every day of the week and twice on Sunday"-even writing it down and sending it to each other! -like it's the most clever thing they've ever heard and not a standard phrase that started circulating a century ago.
In "Mad Bills to Pay: (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)," Machismo Belies A Wounded Heart

Feb 10, 2025 | latinamedia.co | Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Denise Zubizarreta |Cristina Escobar

How do young men deal with the ground beneath their feet opening up – with their world changing? Those are the well-defined and deeply felt stakes in Sundance’s Mad Bills to Pay: (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo). It’s an intimate coming-of-age film that follows Rico (Juan Collado), a 19-year-old who’s in over his head when his pregnant 16-year-old girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), comes to stay with his mom and sister over the summer.
Take it From a Mexican: “Emilia Pérez” is Trash

Feb 1, 2025 | latinamedia.co | Ces Heredia |Edgary Rodriguez R |Cristina Escobar |Carolina Blanco Alvarado

Emilia Pérez is trash. No, I don’t care that it’s been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won a few Golden Globes. Yes, this is the hill I, a Mexican, have chosen to die on.
FOX's "Going Dutch" Lacks Chemistry, Heart, and a Sense of Humor

Jan 2, 2025 | rogerebert.com | Cristina Escobar

"Going Dutch" is supposed to be a comedy. I think. The major clue is that the episodes are 22 minutes long. There certainly aren't a lot of jokes-nothing that made me so much as smile in its first two installments. The sitcom follows Denis Leary as Colonel Patrick Quinn, forced into career purgatory by an ever-righteous Joe Morton as General Davidson.