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

Full Review | Nov 1, 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

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

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

[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

Cronicas is the kind of movie that grabs you while you're watching, even if later you wish it had grabbed a little harder.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2005

Who could've guessed subtitles would make John Leguizamo a better actor?

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 7, 2005

It never quite achieves the level of journalistic condemnation it so clearly seeks.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 7, 2005

This gets television journalism right.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2005

Cronicas has a cracking good plot, a central moral issue and John Leguizamo speaking Spanish. What more does a film need?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2005

Though Crnicas starts as a stark tragedy about widespread suffering, it morphs into a preachy, languorous treatise on manipulative media.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2005

The movie is worth seeing for Leguizamo's sinewy urgency, Alczar's desperate cleverness as the killer, and the squalid, frantic atmosphere of Latin American hunger.

| Original Score: B | Jul 13, 2005

[A] sometimes savvy media melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2005

This film offers a probing look at corruption in 온라인카지노추천 journalism and focuses on a country rarely glimpsed in movies.

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

Reasonably absorbing and a provocative if familiar commentary on media manipulation, with Leguizamo terrific in a serious, intense performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2005

A scathing indictment of writer-director Sebastian Cordero's ability to put together a credible story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 8, 2005

His Manolo is a hair's breadth from being booed off the screen, yet Leguizamo retains audience sympathy and shows us a flawed, conflicted man who will probably never get a decent night's sleep again after the decisions we see him make.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

A sobering, unsettling and devastating experience.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2005

Writer-director Sebastian Cordero keeps the moral conundrums on low boil while allowing the ominous, sweltering atmosphere to seep beneath your skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2005