Everyone Knows Every Juan (2025)

The family drama I did not sign up for

Just off the bat, I want to mention that the one-shot camera action made me so dizzy, but I'm quite impressed.

Not with the story though, god! What in the messy, dysfunctional family genre was this? Watching it, I had only one thought throughout - they're all terrible people. It wasn't really funny (or I didn't get the toilet humor they relied on for half the plot), none of the characters are relatable and even when you think you start to understand where they're coming from, another piece of information that's more awful than the last comes out.

The entire movie spans at the most, 24 hours, and we get to watch the six Sevilla siblings unpack their entire lives on the anniversary of their mother's death - which they've rescheduled for their convenience by the way - retrospectively, that should have told me everything I needed to know.

There's no redemption arc, no point where the story picks up positively, it's just terrible people being terrible for two hours. We just get to see their first conversation as a group in who knows how many years. Maybe they were meant to be terrible throughout and there's no real point to the story but at this point I do not really care, I'm just glad it's over.

There are much better movies with this trope - I would assume, I haven't watched many like it but even then I can tell this wouldn't be the standard.

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