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Crónicas

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Mexico, Ecuador · 2004
Rated R · 1h 48m
Director Sebastián Cordero
Starring John Leguizamo, Damián Alcázar, Leonor Watling, Alfred Molina
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

Reporter Manolo Bonilla travels to Ecuador to interview Vinicio Cepeda, a hit-and-run driver whose crime incited a riot. After Cepeda tells him he knows where a serial killer called the "Monster of Babahoyo" buried a young female victim, Bonilla finds the girl's body. However, it looks as if Cepeda might be withholding some key details...

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60

Village Voice by

Leguizamo finds the right mute for his trumpet, modulating his expenditure of emotion to the requirements of the scenario rather than overengaging his capable Mambo Mouth.

60

Variety by David Rooney

Starts out bracingly but gradually loses focus. Ecuadorian writer-director Sebastian Cordero's screenplay trades in underdeveloped conflicts and blank characters, hinting far too early at the killer's probable identity.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

The result is reasonably absorbing and a provocative if familiar commentary on media manipulation, with Leguizamo terrific in a serious, intense performance.

50

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

A film divided against itself. The more the cat-and-mouse game between prisoner and reporter points it in the direction of "The Silence of the Lambs," the closer it inches toward the sort of exploitation it condemns; for me, that's too close for Crónicas to be taken without a big grain of salt.

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