Mexico City has fewer than 45 official ambulances serving nine million people... Luke Lorentzen's adrenalised documentary focuses on one of the private teams that fill the gap.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2020

Packed with tense moments and disturbing shots that, without compromising the clients' privacy, hint at the unhappiness just offscreen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2020

[A] superb observational documentary...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2020

Fast paced, action packed. An intimate portrait of the human costs of Mexico's healthcare crisis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2020

Much of the film plays like a madly adrenal action movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2020

Were it not for the real tragedy and horror involved, this documentary could almost be filed under the bleakest and often hilarious kind of black comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2020

At 81 minutes, you won't be bored, but don't be surprised if the car ride home finds you questioning how an audition reel for a reality television program earned a theatrical release.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 29, 2020

There's something vaguely outlandish about the way they speed through the streets... Yet there's also a strong moral core, like Juan yelling at a junkie whose glue-sniffing antics leave his kid in a coma.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2020

"Midnight Family" is both a compassionate portrait of a working-class family and a frightening ride through a broken healthcare system that risks the lives of both patients and providers like the Ochoa family.

| Dec 18, 2019

What's indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.

| Dec 12, 2019

One of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 6, 2019

Periodically while watching "Midnight Family" you feel as if you can't look at the screen for another second. But you can't look away either.

| Dec 5, 2019

These moments of downtime provide a warm, comic energy to Midnight Family that renders the Ochoas naturally sympathetic subjects and illustrates why Lorentzen decided to film them in the first place.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 4, 2019

It's the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2019

A sweet, fascinating portrait of a group of people trying to make the best of a bad situation, and sometimes succeeding.

| Apr 3, 2019

An intriguing perspective on health care in urban Mexico.

| Feb 11, 2019

Profound and thrilling cinema verité filmmaking.

| Feb 5, 2019

Portraits of institutional dysfunction don't come much more urgent, and quietly bleak, than this...

| Jan 29, 2019