Cronicas Critic Reviews
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A crackling good suspense thriller.Read the full review
The kind of movie that grabs you while you're watching, even if later you wish it had grabbed a little harder.Read the full review
A raw and powerful suspense thriller.Read the full review
The moral murk of Crónicas would be more effective if the story weren't so contrived, yet the movie is worth seeing for Leguizamo's sinewy urgency, Alcázar's desperate cleverness as the killer, and the squalid, frantic atmosphere of Latin American hunger.Read the full review
Cronicas has a cracking good plot, a central moral issue and John Leguizamo speaking Spanish. What more does a film need?Read the full review
The result is reasonably absorbing and a provocative if familiar commentary on media manipulation, with Leguizamo terrific in a serious, intense performance.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
It's daring and it's different.Read the full review
For a movie about serial killings and media sensationalism, Cronicas sure is wimpy.Read the full review
Although it's often difficult to discern amid a schematic plot and overheated, sanctimonious denouement, an undeniable reality underlies Cronicas.Read the full review
