Alonso Ruizpalacios’ A Cop Movie has ambition and creativity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2022

A game of meta realities where in the end, paradoxically, truth triumphs. The truth of those police bodies whom we have chosen to ignore. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2022

This is a film that is not afraid to experiment with a rigid formula that has been placed before it, and it manages to explore its topics and themes in a riveting manner.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

A Cop Movie is an inventive take on a message that a lot of Mexican filmmakers are putting on screen: the system is stretched to its limits, and its ordinary people who fall through the gaps. That message remains as captivating as ever.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2022

While the film's storytelling flow is fractured, it is also a fine example of groundbreaking experimental filmmaking by director and co-writer Alonso Ruizpalacios. It is an instructive film with interesting characters I cared about.

| Original Score: B | Jan 27, 2022

Its inventive and absorbing docu-fiction narrative helps explore and understand the issues faced by one of Mexico's main institutions. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2021

Leaves the viewers questioning what's to be a "true" cop.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2021

A Cop Movie is entirely original, unpredictable, and fascinating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2021

It's a challenge to the dramatic conventions of 온라인카지노추천 crime shows and movie decadence. A Cop Movie responds to the social moment, examining contemporary issues without resorting to "reform" and "defund" clichés.

| Nov 29, 2021

A Cop Movie expertly exposes this shattered and lopsided system, and does so with surprising command of form.

| Nov 28, 2021

A story whose true nature goes beyond the limits between documentary and fiction to show how much of the former is in the latter and vice versa. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 15, 2021

A Cop Movie is a remarkable piece of filmmaking, a hybrid of documentary and drama that highlights well its notes of how corruption tarnishes our value system.

| Nov 13, 2021

While I wasn't entirely sure this experiment worked, it's certainly interesting, and offers further proof that Ruizpalacios is one of the most fascinating directors to come along in Mexican cinema in years.

| Nov 8, 2021

A Cop Movie in the end raises questions about the role of the police that are relevant not just in Mexico but here too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2021

A Cop Movie is subtle yet audacious in its indictment of police corruption and the individual officers who buy into it-their good intentions be damned.

| Original Score: 8.0/10 | Nov 5, 2021

[I]t's a fascinating, line-blurring experience...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2021

This inventive, skilfully assembled film cleverly blurs lines between fact and fiction, highlighting urgent issues while telling a gripping story that connects with audiences globally.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2021

Builds from the limits of fiction and documentary and, with a dramatic and emotional pace, immerses oneself in the world of the police. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 4, 2021

It's as if someone combined "Cops," "F for Fake" and "When Harry Met Sally."

| Nov 4, 2021

Invigorating and fascinating. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2021