Fresh
From the very first moments of El Norte, we know that we are in the hands of a great movie.
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com
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El Norte
Overview
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Director and cast
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92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is beautifully lensed and comes across as a kind of giant Renaissance canvas.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
El Norte is not exactly a great film, but it's a very good one that, through the devices of fiction, manages to provoke a number of healthily contradictory feelings about the world we all inhabit at the moment.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
Though his subject is a serious one and his intentions are apparently noble, Nava has made a film that is essentially indistinguishable from Love Story.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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