Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

2022

Drama

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 95% · 51 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 95% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 3327 3.3K

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Plot summary

Two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery.

Director

Aitch Alberto Photo
Aitch Alberto

Top cast

Eugenio Derbez Photo
Eugenio Derbez as Jaime Mendoza
Kevin Alejandro Photo
Kevin Alejandro as Sam Quintana
Eva Longoria Photo
Eva Longoria as Soledad Quintana
Marlene Forte Photo
Marlene Forte as Tia Ophelia
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897.59 MB
1280*640
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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897.34 MB
1280*640
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.8 GB
1920*960
English 5.1
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1.63 GB
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English 2.0
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sheri_feld 8 / 10

moving coming-of-age story that needs to be longer

Sweet, moving, gentle, honest, beautifully shot. Aitch alberto is a clearly talented filmmaker and reese gonzales is perfect in his role as dante. Eugenio derbez is also great in this. It's clear that the people involved genuinely care about the book and making an accurate adaptation. If it had slowed down and allowed more time for background and character development, this would have probably been a 10/10. It just felt rushed. We needed to spend more time with the characters to understand their nuance. Nevertheless, as a huge fan of the book, i enjoyed this a lot. I have notes but i will probably rewatch.
Reviewed by rilinafiu 6 / 10

I wish there was more

I wanted to watch this movie for so long and just didn't know where to see it. As a fan of the books I think I expected a lot from the movies and I won't say it was bad, I was just disappointed. The film has no flow and it's like they took chapters from the book independent of each other and just made scenes from it without considering how everything merges together. The dialogue was okay I guess but the chemistry was so off and the acting was so novice like this was a YouTube made film. Another issue I had was the 'experiment', the movie portrayal of the experiment was completely different from the book. What I love about Ari was he was nvr homophobic to Dante, although he was going through his own internalized crisis, he never said or did those things to Dante. Dante's portrayal also seemed so different from what I had in my head but they captured Ari perfectly. The pace of the movie was so quick, 3 scenes in and we were already at the middle of the book. Bless the costume designers for putting Dante in the gayest outfits ever.
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