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Yasser Medina

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Biography:

Yasser Medina is a Dominican Republic-based editor, essayist, and film critic. A member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), he contributes to film criticism in prominent Dominican outlets. Since 2010, he has edited the website Cinefilia.blog, where he passionately reviews every film he watches, offering in-depth analysis of mainstream, classic, and art-house cinema.

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Location:

Dominican Republic

Official Website:

https://www.cinefilia.blog

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Color Purple (1985) 72% 6/10 EDIT “Despite featuring committed performances from Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover, it's a Spielberg rural drama that tends to become redundant in exploring its themes of racism, misogyny, and systemic abuse. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 7/10 EDIT “It's a hard science fiction film that, as an interstellar adventure, never loses its spectacular and entertaining pulse, thanks in part to Gosling's portrayal of the astronaut lost in space. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/10 EDIT “Despite Ethan Hawke's committed performance, frankly, I find Linklater's biopic rather bland, like bitter whiskey, whose convoluted meditation effectively becomes an exhausting exercise in sterile verbiage. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 14, 2026 Full Review The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 96% 5/10 EDIT “A political thriller in which Frankenheimer, with his sober style, attempts to narrate matters of anti-communism and partisan opportunism, but it is, in reality, a bland exercise that accumulates structural deficiencies. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Command Decision (1948) 4/10 EDIT “A war drama that attempts to address issues of leadership in the military command, but its narrative is flat and boring enough to make it hard to take its lesson on patriotic duties seriously. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Finis terrae (1929) 7/10 EDIT “It manifests with a certain sobriety the documentary and lyrical approach of Epstein's aesthetic. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 7, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 5/10 EDIT “I find his gothic horror melodrama bland and incredibly dull, in two eternally long hours that squander a stellar cast headed by Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. [Full review in Spanish}” – Cinefilia Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 71% 6/10 EDIT “It certainly has its moments with stellar performances from Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, but overall it's a courtroom drama that becomes somewhat conventional by revisiting the criminal history of the Nazis. [Full review in spanish]” – Cinefilia Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Correspondence (2016) 11% 4/10 EDIT “A shallow and unbearably boring romantic thriller from Tornatore. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Love (2015) 42% 5/10 EDIT “Noé's erotic drama features some physical commitment from Karl Glusman and Aomi Muyock, but its superficial narrative about sexual desire and self-destructive love simply lacks impact. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 25, 2026 Full Review About Time (2013) 70% 5/10 EDIT “As a romantic comedy, it presents an original concept about time travel with palpable chemistry between Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams, but its fantastical subject matter about family and love becomes too superficial. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 23, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 5/10 EDIT “As a sequel, it features some visual flourishes that accentuate its macabre atmospheres of blood and bone, but unfortunately, its post-apocalyptic horror becomes a pretentious, boring, and excessively self-indulgent exercise. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Last Action Hero (1993) 42% 7/10 EDIT “Far from being a failure, frankly, I find it to be an entertaining and criminally underrated film from McTiernan, which parodies the clichés of the action genre with an Arnold Schwarzenegger in full form. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Pretty Woman (1990) 64% 5/10 EDIT “It's presented as a romantic comedy that boasts undeniable chemistry between Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, but overall, I find it somewhat boring and superficial in its modern fairy tale. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 16, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 5/10 EDIT “Frankly, I feel it's a period drama that offers some chemistry between Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, but its sexually charged exercise on prejudice and class becomes too bland in its gothic romance. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 6/10 EDIT “As a heist thriller, it has a decent start with the cast led by Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, and Mark Ruffalo, but sometimes it goes through regular zones that takes off the hook of its crime story about cops and robbers. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Daisy Miller (1974) 67% 4/10 EDIT “A period romantic drama that, beneath Bogdanovich's superficial exercise in nineteenth-century elegance, becomes enormously boring and graceless with Cybill Shepherd's wooden performance. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 10, 2026 Full Review An Affair to Remember (1957) 65% 6/10 EDIT “It's a melodrama that features palpable chemistry between Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, but whose narrative of tragic love, unfortunately, remains in a comfortable zone that lacks dramatic hook. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 8, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 93% 5/10 EDIT “It has an interesting start by combining quasi-documentary elements with a political suspense melodrama, but overall, its narrative is too flat and superficial to take its far-fetched premise about Nazis seriously. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Blind Husbands (1919) 92% 6/10 EDIT “A silent melodrama that manifests Von Stroheim's early aesthetic ambitions for mise en scène, but whose narrative, unfortunately, lacks the emotional hook to sustain its themes of jealousy, infidelity, and marital lies. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 4, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 5/10 EDIT “A psychological drama that often benefits from a particularly understated performance by Rose Byrne, but whose narrative about maternal anxiety and unease never goes beyond the therapy room. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Reality (2023) 93% 6/10 EDIT “A drama that, to some extent, benefits from Sydney Sweeney's understated performance as the whistleblower, but whose narrative, unfortunately, loses its consistent tone with each skewed question in its ethical discourse. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Feb 1, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 6/10 EDIT “It has a captivating start with the chemistry between Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, but then moves into irredeemable territory that frequent commonplaces in its bloody subject of survival and female empowerment. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Dead for a Dollar (2022) 53% 4/10 EDIT “I find it a cheap, conventional, incredibly boring western, lacking in excitement and riding at an erratic pace with the outlaws played by Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie (2021) 96% 6/10 EDIT “Its animation has some technical skill in character design and some action sequences drawn by MAPPA, but its narrative, beneath the calculated spectacularity, gives me the feeling that it simply lacks strength. [Full review in Spanish]” – Cinefilia Jan 26, 2026 Full Review
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