Leonor Will Never Die

...bursts with imaginative impulses, scoring slightly more hits than misses in a Charlie Kaufmanesque storyline that flip-flops between reality and fantasy using the tropey device of a movie within a movie.

Escobar’s go-for-broke handling of the material favours fun outtakes, flip humour and nostalgic hat-tips to the days when the Philippines had real gravitational pull as a hub for maverick genre enthusiasts...

...brilliantly meta comedy-thriller turns film on its head.

...undeniably, one-of-a-kind. A kind of arthouse take on Hot Fuzz, with a smattering of A Matter Of Life And Death or Talk To Her for good measure...

With its low-fi pleasures of see-through ghosts and TV screens as portals, the film reaffirms how ingenious the medium can be in the grasp of the right artist.