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Reviews: Cartel Land (2015)

Governing Committee July 30, 2015 2 minutes read

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cartel_landHere are review links for this film submitted by our members:

  • [New – 2/12/16] | Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
  • Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
    • Excerpt: an eye opening look at organized vigilantism.
  • Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
    • Excerpt: Director Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land is a brave exercise in and a fascinating piece of journalism.
  • Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
  • Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
    • Excerpt: Chilling and compelling, ripped from today’s headlines…
  • Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
    • Excerpt: It doesn’t hang together where a more sober and complex analysis might have done and it does not get away from questions of complicity.
  • Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
    • Excerpt: Looking like the lost and lamenting Édgar Ramírez as the self styled revolutionary and terrorist at the end of Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, Mireles realizes he’s become just another casualty of Mexico’s deep seated corruption at the hands of a never ending cycle of cartel. As guards are let down and professional clumsiness sets in, Heineman’s characters are revealed to be as complex as the alarmingly multifarious situations unfolding on both sides of the border.
  • Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
    • Excerpt: Vigilantism on both sides of the Mexican-U.S. line is the subject of Mathhew Heineman’s powerful but curiously diffuse documentary.
  • Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
    • Excerpt: An amazing look at the new world of methamphetamine manufacture and distribution and the losing battle locals are fighting against it.

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