By skyforbes 
A review of the new musical, in theaters October 10, 2025
As Bill Condon’s new musical Kiss of the Spider Woman opens, Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) is moved to a new cell. We’re in an Argentinian prison in early 1983, and this is a country gripped by revolution, the people taking to the streets against a military dictatorship that’s jailed or killed tens of thousands of citizens. Molina is in prison for indecent exposure — caught in a restroom with a man, if you can believe it — but his new cellmate Valentín (Diego Luna) is a revolutionary.
At first, Valentín is reluctant to open up to his new roommate. He’d prefer to read communist texts in silence, but Molina loves to talk. He’s flamboyant and chatty, filling every quiet moment with rambling soliloquies on the nature of love, life, and the wondrous, fabulous, incredible career of one Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez), his favorite actress. Eventually, after much pleading, Molina convinces Valentín to let him describe the plot of Kiss of the Spider Woman, his favorite film.
Scheherazade-style, Molina spins out this tale over the course of the film, entertaining his cellmate even as the guards begin to cruelly crack down on their prisoners in an effort to…