Cronicas Critic Reviews

For a movie about serial killings and media sensationalism, Cronicas sure is wimpy.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

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

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

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

A crackling good suspense thriller.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

It's daring and it's different.Read the full review

A raw and powerful suspense thriller.Read the full review