Backyard (El traspatio) (2009)
Release Date: Feb 20, 2009 Wide
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A production of Paramount Pictures Mexico with an all-star Hispanic cast including Jimmy Smits, Joaquin Cosio and Ana de la Reguera, the tense thriller El Traspatio concerns a spree of serial killings in the North Mexico border town of Juarez that prompts an elaborate, complex homicide investigation. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Feb 20, 2009 Wide
Oct 26, 2010
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It has to be a pretty shitty year in movies to think BACKYARD's the best our country has to offer, especially after the incredible ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA ("Tear This Heart Out", last year's submission).
Clichéd, filled with plot holes and cartoonish characters, BACKYARD turns one of Mexico's worst crises (female murders in Ciudad Juárez) into a joke. Revered writer Sabina Berman fails, providing a laughable script.
Carlos Carrera might just be Mexico's most overrated director, so I expected more disappointing work from him (after EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO). I was right: everything but the first and last scene is garbage. Amid all this waste of celluloid, Ana de la Reguera's sublime performance is a breath of fresh air. The girl can act.
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- El traspatio (ES)
