Fresh
Photojournalist Shaul Schwarz's powerful documentary Narco Cultura gets inside the world of two men who, in very different ways, inhabit this horror.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Narco Cultura
The Hits Just Keep on Coming
2013 · 1h 43m · R
Crime, Documentary
Directed by
Shaul Schwarz
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Narco Cultura
Overview
To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within, exposing cycles of addiction to money, drugs, and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
Director and cast
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88%
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Rotten
This issue-based journalism piece yields diminishing returns the deeper it digs.
Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
An eye-opening examination of Mexico's blood-soaked drug war and its unsettling pop-culture side effects, Narco Cultura is as overwhelming as it is absorbing.
Geoff Berkshire, Variety
Fresh
This haunting documentary contrasts songs saluting Mexican drug lords as heroic bandits with the harrowing reality of life in murder-stained Juarez.
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register
Fresh
This dispassionate but devastating film looks at the drug wars from two very different but chillingly complementary perspectives.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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