Review: World Cup-winning goalie Emi Martínez gets animated in a slim, sweet documentary
I've mentioned the ongoing World Cup in a couple recent reviews ( Garuda: Dare to Dream and Jim Queen ), and here I am, about to talk about it again. It's a little ironic, since I don't watch sports. But I do watch movies about sports. I think I need the extra narrative structure to care about what's happening on the field/pitch/diamond/whatever. I don't have the time to follow a team's season and all the inner workings/personal arcs/yada yada. That isn't me. So I like to dip my toes in with movies like the charming Emi Martínez: The Kid Who Stops Time , which is streaming on Netflix. This short-and-sweet documentary looks at the life and career of the Argentine national football team's 2022 World Cup-winning goalkeeper. (Per my Googling, he and Argentina are still in the running for this year's World Cup, too!) It follows his childhood discovery of his talent, his early days playing for the youth national team and Argentina, and the whirlwind of mo...
