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Cristina Escobar

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Santa Fe
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Covers:  Entertainment, movies, TV, Latino/a/x culture
Co-founder @LatinaMediaCo. Contributor @Popsugar @EbertVoices y más. TEDx speaker, R🍅 approved @CriticsChoice @LEJALatino cescobarandrade.com/

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Cristina Escobar’s Biography

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Cristina Escobar is the co-founder of latinamedia.co, an indie publication uplifting Latina and gender non-conforming Latinx perspectives in media. A rehabilitated English major, she’s a member of the Critics Choice Association, a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, and a member of the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association. She writes at the intersection of race, gender, and pop culture and her words can be found in the A.V. Club, Glamour, Latino Rebels, mitú, Popsugar, Remezcla, Refinery29…

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Where are all the Latino TV shows?

Where are all the Latino TV shows?

"Brokenhearted," "really upset, "depressing" - those are some of the words Latino viewers used in conversatio…

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Undone Takes Us Back Into Madness

Undone Takes Us Back Into Madness

The second season finale of the Prime Video series 'Undone,' "We All Love Each Other," rewrites the previous …

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Why It Matters That "Turning Red" and "Encanto" Both Deal With Intergenerational Trauma

Why It Matters That "Turning Red" and "Encanto" Both Deal With Intergenerational Trauma

Pixar's newest film, " Turning Red," follows a teenage girl who has to confront her family's past in order to…

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Cobra Kai season 4 is another winning combo of silly and earnest

Cobra Kai season 4 is another winning combo of silly and earnest

The joy of has always been in its mix of tones. Not many shows can pull off an earnest worldview combined wit…

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'West Side Story' Misses the Mark - Latino Rebels

'West Side Story' Misses the Mark - Latino Rebels

Oh, . What are we going to do with you? You're like our West Side Story tío 's first wife who won't stop show…

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Instead Of A Monster, The Villain Of 'Encanto' Is The Messy Complication Of Family

Instead Of A Monster, The Villain Of 'Encanto' Is The Messy Complication Of Family

I still remember the first movie I saw in the theater. It was Beauty and the Beast , and I loved it. I rememb…

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“The Map of Longing” Offers Real Catharsis Despite Its Teen Melancholy

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By Cristina Escobar
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Fans of the book by Alice Kellen probably already know–Netflix’s “The Map of Longing” is more “The Fault in Our Stars” than “Bridgerton.” Yes, the Spanish series is adapted from an adult romance, but it brings a certain teenage melancholy, even as its characters are ostensibly in their 20s. So expect more earnest coming of age (think the driver’s test) and less randy fun (the sex is pretty tame, even if we do see more flesh than U.S. audiences are accustomed to).
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The Five Star Weekend season 1 Reviews

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By Bekah Brunstetter, Cristina Escobar, Carla Meyer
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SummaryAfter a devastating loss, best-selling cook Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner) decides to host a weekend at her Nantucket house with friends (Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, D'Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan) from different points of her life in the adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's book of the same name.
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Peacock’s “The Five-Star Weekend” Is Way More Than Pedestrian Housewife Melodrama

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By Cristina Escobar
| RogerEbert.com Verified
We certainly have a glut of these shows—you know the ones where thin white people convene on a cold beach to compare notes and solve intrigues. Nicole Kidman has practically made a cottage industry out of them: “Big Little Lies,” “The Undoing,” “The Perfect Couple.” But somehow, “The Five-Star Weekend” manages to surprise, even though so many of its beats are predetermined.
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