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Crime, Documentary - 2013
Narco Cultura
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7.2
88%
74
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:
,
Shaul Schwarz

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
103 min
Release date:
22 Nov 2013
Country:
MX, US
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$163,690
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

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,
13 Dec 2013
rotten:
This issue-based journalism piece yields diminishing returns the deeper it digs.
– Justin Lowe,
Hollywood Reporter,
6 Dec 2013
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,
6 Dec 2013
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,
6 Dec 2013
fresh:
This dispassionate but devastating film looks at the drug wars from two very different but chillingly complementary perspectives.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec 2013
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