Well-acted and gripping, Sangre de mi Sangre augurs well for Zalla's career.

| Apr 12, 2016

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

Eventually, of course, all the characters will have to collide for a final reckoning, but that moment strains credulity to the breaking point and sabotages the entire enterprise

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 29, 2008

Christopher Zalla, a graduate of the film program at Columbia University, makes an impressive debut with this suspense feature about illegal immigrants and stolen identity.

| Dec 17, 2008

It's the relationships between the characters, layered and emotional, that saves Sangre from itself.

| Aug 15, 2008

[Director Christopher] Zalla may have provided his characters with a overly constructed tragedy, but his eye for city life and his seeming gift with actors promises astute, generous work to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 20, 2008

There's nothing easy about Christopher Zalla's very good film, a story that will get under your skin in its depiction of the dark underbelly of the American dream.

| Jun 20, 2008

Stumbles through a maddening screenplay but nevertheless generates true emotional energy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2008

[Director Christopher] Zalla keeps the tension high through a taut story rather than through manipulative, obtrusive thriller direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2008

A moving story combined with first rate acting and a great screenplay by a new, but determined, writer/director make this an indie film not to be missed. Modern film noir from the streets of Mexico to the streets of America.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 17, 2008

Zalla utilizes both the dark back streets of New York and the dark nature of some humans to weave an intoxicating tale of stolen identity and pilfered emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2008

Plot flaws and all, we can be glad that the picture was made -- because of its acting.

Full Review | May 27, 2008

Shot mainly in New York's meanest, murkiest streets, Sangre de Mi Sangre, is intricately and imaginatively structured, building to a powerful climax of complex irony.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2008

Zalla wants to know the point where boys become cynics, men become vultures, and the hardened become vulnerable.

| Original Score: A+ | May 23, 2008

Sangre De Mi Sangre could have done without a few plot coincidences and the film's relentless mean street look seems studied at times. But the film's behavioral honesty pumps vibrant, undeniable life through every frame.

Full Review | May 22, 2008

Stands out from the recent wave of movies about the plight of immigrants coming to the United States...because it's more suspenseful than heart-tugging.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 16, 2008

A suspenseful movie with no intention of sugarcoating the daily hardships of New York's underclass.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

The grimy elegance of this Sundance award winner elevates it well above the standard-issue immigrant drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2008