I liked everything about this film, the writing by Michael Berry (who also directed the film) and Louis Moulinet, the pace, the editing, by Larry Madaras ('American Beauty') and the acting is excellent by the entire cast.

| Original Score: A | Dec 24, 2014

Frontera does not measure up as an issue-oriented film

| Original Score: C | Nov 24, 2014

Frontera avoids stepping on an illegal immigration soap box until the movie's final shot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2014

Ed Harris brings such world-weary gravitas to his role as a grieving widower...that he comes close to making up for the picture's sometimes clunky narrative.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 11, 2014

It feels like an oversimplified examination of potentially provocative subject matter.

| Sep 5, 2014

Compelling but obvious border drama is well acted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2014

In trying to create a balanced portrait of the conflicts and the ordinary people affected by them, director Michael Berry... chips away at the authenticity and intensity that an issue-driven film like this sorely needs.

| Sep 5, 2014

It captures the desperation of illegal immigrants and the confused rancor that often greets them on the American side of the border.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 5, 2014

The actors are compelling, and the issue is, of course, always worth discussion. It's not a great movie, but, if nothing else, Frontera is worthwhile on those fronts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2014

"Frontera" is a well-cast, well-made, well-acted drama that you will probably forget about soon after you've seen it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2014

The movie gets points for not being polemical, but they don't replace the polemics with anything interesting.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Sep 4, 2014

You wish that a filmmaker like John Sayles had grabbed the story by the throat and teased out its complexities.

| Sep 4, 2014

There are worse things a movie can be than merely watchable.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 4, 2014

The modern, gritty Western "Frontera" takes a lot of the clichs and delicately upends them to tell a tale about undocumented immigrants.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2014

No polemic, it's a poignant tale of human decency and redemption.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2014

There's a fine line between foreshadowing and telegraphing, and Frontera does plenty of the latter.

| Original Score: C | Sep 4, 2014

"Frontera" offers an unsparing look at the plight of illegal immigrants, even if the ending seems too patly convenient.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 3, 2014

With its characters all sketched in single dimension and its story woefully light on surprise or intricacy, Berry's work proves less interested in nuanced drama than in merely forwarding an agenda.

| Sep 3, 2014

Middling if still very watchable ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2014

It's no polemic, but neither is it as character-driven as it aims to be.

| Sep 2, 2014