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Quick Answer: Is Flies or Mexico 86 the better Mexican 2026 film?
Flies leads on Celluloid Score (74% vs 61%). Flies leads Mexico’s 2026 Celluloid chart; Mexico 86 is the historical/political counterweight. Scores average five public sources — not a single-outlet verdict.
The matchup
Flies leads Mexico’s 2026 Celluloid chart; Mexico 86 is the historical/political counterweight.
Mexico’s 2026 slate on Celluloid spans genre and period drama. Flies currently holds the higher composite; Mexico 86 competes for viewers who want historical stakes over contemporary genre. Both appear under the Mexico country hub with Spanish-language browse links.
Critics have embraced this quiet, black-and-white two-hander as a return to form for Eimbcke, praising its disarming emotional honesty and the understated lead performances even as a few note the slim, familiar premise keeps it from greatness.
In Mexico City, a solitary middle-aged woman named Olga rents a spare room to a man whose wife is hospitalized across the street, hoping to cover her own upcoming surgery. When he has to leave town, he quietly leaves his nine-year-old son in her care, and the boy's presence slowly cracks open a life she had sealed shut against grief.
Gabriel Ripstein · Comedy, Drama, Biography · 1h 35m
Mexico · Spanish · Jun 5, 2026
61%
Celluloid ScoreRecommended
Critics have found this Netflix satire breezy and well-cast, with Diego Luna's live-wire performance carrying a story that moves fast but skates past the specifics of its own scandal, leaving a lightweight comedy where a sharper takedown might have landed harder.
When Colombia backs out of hosting the 1986 World Cup, a mid-level federation bureaucrat named Martín de la Torre sees a once-in-a-lifetime opening and talks, bluffs, and schemes his way into bringing the tournament to Mexico. Diego Luna leads this loosely fact-based satire of the backroom deals and television-network muscle that made Mexico the first two-time World Cup host.
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