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Dolores Quintana

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Biography:

Dolores Quintana is a film, theatre, and television critic and journalist who regularly contributes to Nightmarish Conjurings and on her personal blog on Medium.com. Previously, she has written for Fangoria Online, We Like LA, We Are Horror, Pocho.com, late period Buddyhead, and The Blog @ Boston Court.

Reviews

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The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “This is Francis Lawrence’s best film by miles. Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson aced it, but the whole cast is great. The movie is 100% ruthless and beautifully empathetic at the same time. JT Mollner’s script is note-perfect. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Weapons weaponizes our own belief in the status quo and safety, sending a spike of fear through your brain. It’s the terror of the world attacking you for no reason that you understand, and there’s no way to stop it.” – Santa Monica Mirror Aug 9, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% EDIT “Together is an eerily apt romantic horror comedy for the 21st Century. The darker sides of love, sacrifice, the pain of loss, and how love requires you to open yourself up to another person” – Santa Monica Mirror Aug 9, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “It is engrossing, gory, and, above all, filled with the excitement of summer. If you love quality scary movies, Dangerous Animals is made just for you.” – Santa Monica Mirror Aug 9, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% EDIT “Danny and Michael Philippou’s second film is one of the best films of 2025 and shows that the brothers’ talents should not be underestimated. Stunning, raw, yet comfy as a warm sweater, until the moment when it steals the breath from your lungs. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Aug 9, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning is a ridiculously entertaining action film with a core of what humanity needs now.” – Santa Monica Mirror Aug 9, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% EDIT “The Monkey is gob-stoppingly hilarious to behold and filled with existential thoughts about life and death. Even though The Monkey is brimming with bloody carnage and festive annihilation, it struck me as a very personal film.” – Santa Monica Mirror Apr 10, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 47% EDIT “A Working Man is exactly what its name implies: meat and potatoes vigilante action, nothing too fancy, but a good meal just the same.” – Santa Monica Mirror Apr 10, 2025 Full Review The First Omen (2024) 83% EDIT “The First Omen is a serpentine dance with evil and the demonology of power. Complex and filled with fright, it confronts the horror of trusting in those who claim to love you. It succeeds in giving The Omen franchise a new reason to exist.” – Dolores Quintana Jan 1, 2025 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% EDIT “Civil War is filled with the terrible mayhem of war brought home to the United States. Brilliantly conceived, it shoots a barrage of ideas straight towards your brain and assaults your senses with sound and furious urgency. Will you listen?” – Dolores Quintana Jan 1, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “Emotional carnage, steadfast courage, and villainy among stark white Italian marble and the fields of Philadelphia create an ambitious and extraordinary canvas of the human soul in Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold’s film, The Brutalist.” – Santa Monica Mirror Jan 1, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% EDIT “Claws encased in a velvet glove. The audience helplessly feels Death’s wings enveloping the characters. Robert Egger’s newest film Nosferatu is a commanding sensual seduction drawing us into evil’s embrace” – Santa Monica Mirror Jan 1, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% EDIT “Wicked is magical. It forgoes the artificial spectacle of certain other fantasy tales by concentrating on the acting: emotions and relationships of the characters, then layering everything else on top” – Santa Monica Mirror Jan 1, 2025 Full Review Venom: The Last Dance (2024) 40% EDIT “Venom: The Last Dance was very enjoyable and kind of sweet for a movie where a monster eats people’s heads. Basically, the movie is grounded in human emotion and characterization rather than spectacle which is why it is successful for me.” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% EDIT “Anora is the fragile human soul wrapped in a Russian sable, suffused with hope that can roar into blinding rage. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review The Platform 2 (2024) 35% EDIT “The Platform 2 is an unflinchingly ugly and beautiful depiction of humanity at its best and worst, showing our capacity for rage and violence as well as our potential for love, forgiveness, and understanding. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) 27% EDIT “Harold and the Purple Crayon is a joyous celebration of art and love that is kept from being sublime only by the performance of its lead actor. The supporting cast does wonderful and amusing work that would have been better served by a stronger lead. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% EDIT “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is beautiful madness and pure cinematic bliss—epic storytelling packed with fiery mayhem and so much more. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Strange Darling (2023) 96% EDIT “Strange Darling is filled with shocks, surprises, humor, and a deep understanding and sympathy for humanity, including the human that would usually be considered the villain. It is a beautiful and ethereal ode to humanity and the roots of human evil.” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “The Substance is one of 2024’s best films, both a cinematic dream and nightmare, that pushes the envelope way beyond the norm, and glories in its own audacity... a breathtaking and sumptuous work of art that screams in your face while blowing you a kiss.” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% EDIT “Hauntingly heartwarming and frightfully funny, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a goth valentine to the terror of the living. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% EDIT “Longlegs is a mesmerizing serial killer tale that swallows the viewer whole. The feeling of being inside the head of a serial killer or an intense FBI agent has never been so enrapturing and seductive. ” – Santa Monica Mirror Jun 18, 2024 Full Review DIG! XX (2024) 100% EDIT “DIG! XX is magnificent and fiery, an artistic telling of a story that is frequently misunderstood because of our society’s tendency to put a premium on obedience rather than free will, even in art.” – Santa Monica Mirror Apr 24, 2024 Full Review Arcadian (2024) 78% EDIT “With beautiful imagery, scary monsters, and strong performances, Arcadian is a winner as an individualistic kind of humanistic horror film that leans into the relationships between the survivors and their quirks rather than huge amounts of gore.” – Santa Monica Mirror Apr 24, 2024 Full Review It's What's Inside (2024) 80% EDIT “The film is witty and vicious, with a crackerjack premise that I would liken to a 21st-century CLUE. ” – Creepy Kingdom Apr 24, 2024 Full Review
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