Carlos López Estrada

Film Review: “Summertime” — Poetry Collective

July 16, 2021
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Despite the artificiality of Summertime’s premise, director Carlos López Estrada links the film’s episodes together via a kind of seamless magical realism: each moment smoothly leads to the next, each accelerates towards a powerful resolution.

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Film Review: “Raya and the Last Dragon” — An Animated Plea for Unity

June 16, 2021
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In addition to generalizations about Asian cultures — the voice actors come from a variety of Asian, but not all Southeast Asian, backgrounds — there are other issues a grown-up viewer might object to.

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