As this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival takes off, I found myself gravitating toward the festival’s short films selections.…
Author: Paul Emmanuel Enicola
Paul Emmanuel Enicola
Paul is a Tomatometer-approved film critic inspired by the biting sarcasm of Pauline Kael and levelheaded worldview of Roger Ebert. Nevertheless, his approach underscores a love for film criticism that got its jumpstart from reading Peter Travers and Richard Roeper’s accessible, reader-friendly reviews. As SEO Manager/Assistant Editor for the site, he also serves as a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and the Society of Filipino Film Reviewers.
From that unforgettable feeling of seeing their first crush to the frustration over the realism around them, LGBTQ+ protagonists can…
With the end of Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency and his attacks on democratic institutions like a free independent press, some Filipinos…
If you had a chance to talk to someone that died that you love, would you take it? “Eternal You,”…
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I used to hold Filipino movies to a low regard. Don’t get…
A young Orthodox couple faces the challenges of living in a society deeply governed by tradition, as they try to…
Nalini Nadkarni is a world-renowned ecologist who climbs trees in the rainforest canopy to study “what grows back” after an…
There’s a raw, naked honesty in Set Hernandez’s documentary film “unseen” that makes me appreciate the approaches they undertook in…
Orin O’Brien never wanted the spotlight. Eschewing it from growing up in a household of actor parents, she channeled her…
“How to Have an American Baby,” the documentary film by Leslie Tai now playing at DOC NYC, piercingly allegorizes the…