The Film Critic
★ 6.5 · 2014 · 90m · Drama · Comedy
Víctor Tellez is an intellectual, world-weary film critic who prefers to think in French and eschew the clichés of romantic movies...until he finds himself living a sappy, feel-good love story of his own.
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