Director/screenwriter Sebastin Cordero delivers a lurid and absorbing drama about the power of the media and the steps some will take to get the big scoop.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 29, 2018

Proceeds breathlessly and hysterically towards a story that in the end, seems to have hardly left the finish line.

Full Review | May 24, 2007

A blunt instrument of a tale, with considerable emotional impact.

| Mar 1, 2007

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006

...thoroughly underwhelming and surprisingly dull.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2005

A riveting exploration of good and evil where the line between the two is unclear.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2005

Nothing in this would-be thriller grabs you by the throat, never mind reaches down to your guts.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 7, 2005

Leguizamo tackles his first Spanish-language role with considerable aplomb.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 30, 2005

This suspenseful film and its star are as sharp as razors as they delve into the dark corners of life.

| Sep 22, 2005

[Helmer] Cordero tries to humanize his monster and, as such, takes the wind out of Cronicas's sails.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 11, 2005

Ecuadoran filmmaker Sebastian Cordero certainly has style to burn and has some intriguing opinions on the news media, though he could have left out some of the more melodramatic plot elements.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2005

What should be the movie's strength, the mano-a-mano psychological sparring between Manolo and Vinicio, fizzles out with a dispiriting and easily anticipated ending.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2005

An ambitious social-commentary melodrama that works about half the time -- until it engages in the very behavior it sets out to condemn.

| Sep 8, 2005

a gritty story about a reporter who gets carried away by his ego while he believes he is pursuing the greater good

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 1, 2005

Cordero paints his villain with more points to ponder than his protagonist.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 30, 2005

We've seen this cautionary tale before, and the outcome, while chilling from an ethical perspective, is almost a foregone conclusion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

The hit-and-run destructiveness of the rapacious media is nothing new, but Cordero gives his cynical take a unique setting and a queasy climax.

| Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2005

[Cordero's] lens is focused on a larger ethics, on what makes human beings heroes and monsters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2005

Cronicas is the kind of tense, terrific suspenser that screams for a Hollywood remake. Only the remake won't be anywhere near as good, so check out the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2005