Argentine cinema has long balanced political urgency with poetic storytelling, from the militant films of the 1960s and 70s through to today's festival circuit favourites. The Motorcycle Diaries and Monos both show that tradition of using landscape and movement to say something bigger about identity and power. See what Macca made of Argentina's output below.
Country Uruguay
There is a wickedly good premise at the heart of Federico Borgia's Prince, and a pedigree cast to carry it, but this Uruguayan dark comedy never quite sinks its teeth in. It is a perfectly pleasant watch, handsomely made and nicely performed, yet for a film built on
Rating: 3.0★
Peter Hujar's Day arrives in 2025 as one of the more unusual entries in recent American independent cinema: a seventy-six minute reconstruction of a single day in the life of a photographer, drawn from an audio recording that had been sitting in an archive for half a
Rating: 1.5★
Paraguay's Chaco War of 1932 to 1935 was one of the bloodiest conflicts in twentieth-century South American history, a grinding territorial dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia fought over scrubland so remote and punishing that disease and thirst killed as many soldiers as combat did. It is not,
Rating: 1.0★
By now, with a fair few of these under my belt, I've made my peace with the fact that arthouse and I are rarely going to see eye to eye. But even by my own standards, La Libertad tested the limits of that peace. This is arthouse in
Rating: 3.5★
Whisky is a strange one to recommend. On paper, everything about it should be a chore, and yet I found it quietly gripping in a way I did not see coming. That almost never happens to me with films like this, and I am still not entirely sure how it
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of When Evil Lurks that could have been one of the great modern horror films. The practical effects alone are worth acknowledging: grotesque, inventive, and crafted with a genuine commitment to physical horror that puts most studio genre fare to shame. The makeup work is
2010s
There's a particular kind of discomfort that comes from watching someone else's home movies. Birthday cakes, family gatherings, a child's first steps, all of it flickering on grainy VHS tape, intimate in a way that feels almost intrusive. Agustina Comedi's documentary Silence
Genre Drama
★★★½ — The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Monos (2019)
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Fire (2015)
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