'Scoundrels') is a 2022 Spanish comedy film directed and written by Daniel Guzmán, who also stars alongside Joaquín González and Luis Tosar.
Upon being handed a notice about the foreclosure of their apartment due to a loan, and teaming up with another two scoundrels from his past (Brujo and Luismi), Joaquín tries to get the money to avoid the eviction, but things go from bad to radically worse.
Beatriz Martínez of El Periódico de Catalunya rated the film 3 out of 5 stars assessing that, taking advantage of the blurrying of the fictional and the real, the helmer manages to "generate a comic device that is much more precise than it might seem at first sight and that works (despite some drops in rhythm in its central part) in an unprejudiced and playful, parodic and self-conscious way".
[7] Carlos Marañón of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that Guzmán is brave in daring to make "a personal story that maintains a complicated relationship with verisimilitude and yet has an undeniable connection to reality", with the narration being underpinned by a "Berlanguian" chorality.
[8] Carmen L. Lobo of La Razón rated it 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting "the honesty and affection with which Guzman portrays these con artists", while pointing out that the film could have benefited from a final revision of its editing.