Fresh
Film noir and contempo Spain make a near-perfect match in the explosive No Rest for the Wicked.
Jonathan Holland, Variety
Overview
Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
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Fresh
A hard-boiled Spanish police thriller about a good cop gone bad hits the genre spot.
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter
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