Patricia Puentes

Patricia Puentes is an author and entertainment writer and critic.

ABOUT

Barcelona native who’s been calling California home for more than sixteen years.

Writer, TV and film buff, entertainment critic, and pop-culture-obsessed journalist with more than 15 years of experience.

She's interviewed Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Guillermo del Toro and Kenneth Branagh but is still waiting to meet Emma Thompson and Kathryn Bigelow.

Member of the Television Critics Association, Critics Choice Association and the CCA Women's Committee. One of the original women behind the Seal of Female Empowerment in Entertainment (SOFEE). Tomatometer-approved critic.

Finalist, third place and second place winner for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

A polyglot who writes, reads and speaks in English, Spanish and Catalan. She can mumble a sentence mixing the three of them and throw in some French or Galician for fun — or further confusion.

Tea enthusiast who’s lived in Paris, Los Angeles, Boston and Oakland.

Dog person with a hyperactive beastie called Boira.