Movies We Texted About

1 week ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Lé Baltar

At times it’s best to encounter a movie as a blank slate, even for film critics like me who have never been put off by any ounce of spoilers. If anything, there’s a different kind of pleasure that arises from experiencing something for the first time, and it’s often ambrosial and intoxicating. That’s partly true about The Rose: Come Back to Me, Eugene Yi’s documentary movie that just had its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

1 week ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Lé Baltar

After working on their respective short films and co-directing the documentary short Dollar Pizza Documentary, Brooklyn-based filmmakers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis are upping the ante as their debut feature The Travel Companion is having its world premiere in the US Narrative Competition section of the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. The movie, as with most first-time features, acts as a glimpse into the directing duo’s personal lores.

2 weeks ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Lé Baltar

In Cuerpo Celeste, the symbolically loaded debut feature from Chilean writer-director Nayra Ilic García, the past not only fractures the present and future but actively exists along with it as if they are all one and the same. The film explores that threshold, the possibility to re-encounter even something we have yet to experience, in search of some kind of transcendence for its protagonist and, by extension, its director. But the story’s provenance is hardly abstract.

2 weeks ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Gabe Lapalombella

British gangster content has become a popular pastime for entertainment media enthusiasts. There’s a heightened quality that’s proven uproariously entertaining for viewers. British gangster classics such as Snatch, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, and the old-school The Long Good Friday proved this correct. One commonality amongst some of those films is director Guy Ritchie. His voice in the gangster genre is so distinct that it has become beloved by fans since his first film in 1998.

2 weeks ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Pedro Lima

The French/Polish director Julia Kowalski recently premiered her Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite (Her Will Be Done). It is a Quinzaine Des Cineastes selection and the director’s sophomore full-length feature, Crache Cœur (Raging Rose). The film narrates the story of Nawojka (Maria Wróbel), a girl from rural France whose parents are Polish immigrants. Naw, which is her family nickname, has a curse. She inherited it from her mother, who had already passed away.