The fairy-tale, magical/horror elements are a little too constructive and strenuously uplifting.

| Sep 18, 2023

What Tigers Are Not Afraid doesn’t contain in terms of deep characters and real-world specificity, it makes up for with its supernatural elements, allowing its allegory to resonate.

| Jun 7, 2023

One of the best horrors movies of the past few years. This cast of children is incredible and the story is heartbreaking and sadly eye-opening.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 20, 2021

A low-key marvel, surprising and rough and emotional, at times darkly beautiful to behold

| Jul 14, 2021

A fantasy and horror-tinted tribute to the lost voices of Mexico.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 29, 2021

A vicious indictment of modern drug cartels as well as a genuinely eerie ghost story.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 21, 2020

It's a devastating portrayal that encapsulates the tone of the movie itself.

| Sep 24, 2020

Tigers Are Not Afraid will touch the lives of many as the shared understanding of missing women and family members is not only seen in drug-torn Mexico but across the globe.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 29, 2020

Haunting and gorgeous, dreamy and dreary, Tigers are Not Afraid is by turns a dark and joyous reminder to be careful what you wish for. It's a tight, remarkable achievement that pulls no punches and hovers over you like an emotional specter.

| Original Score: A | Jun 26, 2020

There is a beguiling delicacy and precision about López's work that hits you almost immediately.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 23, 2020

Tigers Are Not Afraid is absolutely, heartbreakingly beautiful and darkly whimsical, a twisted, real world fairytale that grabs the audience and doesn't let them go until the very end.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 14, 2020

The gritty realism of the street blends with touches of animation and surreal, nightmarish images, magical realism that brings to mind the earliest films of Guillermo Del Toro, in a remarkable tale of traumatic childhood.

| Mar 13, 2020

Writer/director Issa Lopez's Spanish-language genre mash-up often promises more than it can deliver, but it is helped by a group of compelling youngsters on screen.

| Jan 24, 2020

... an entertaining tale, deeply unnerving in concept and featuring a few decent chills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 13, 2020

Tigers Are Not Afraid is unrelenting in the darkness of its material, but Issa López merges the genre conventions of fairy tales and ghost stories with the genuinely dizzying emotions of childhood.

| Oct 31, 2019

Brutal as it gets, the mystic otherworldliness of the clash between spirits and villains makes it watchable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 9, 2019

The film uses real-world horror and fantasy metaphors together as a way of accentuating the very real miseries of contemporary Mexico.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2019

A Grimm-worthy modern folktale that is at once utterly pitiless and deeply touching.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 4, 2019

...a gritty and creepy unique look at the collateral damage of the drug trade.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 27, 2019

A Walt Disney fairy tale about El Chapo told through the language of Gabriel García Márquez and visually painted as if guided by Frida Kahlo's hand, Tigers Are Not Afraid is some kind of special.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 27, 2019