Crónicas (2004)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 71
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 20
An unsettling and absorbing cautionary tale with John Leguizamo playing an unscrupulous TV reporter who uses the medium to further his own goals.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 8
An unsettling and absorbing cautionary tale with John Leguizamo playing an unscrupulous TV reporter who uses the medium to further his own goals.
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Movie Info
A man with a secret forms an uneasy alliance with an opportunistic reporter in this drama from Mexico. Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo) is a broadcast journalist for a Latin-American tabloid television series who has been sent to Ecuador to cover the funeral services of three children who fell victim to a mass murderer known as "the Monster of Babahoyo." Shortly after Bonilla finishes interviewing a young mourner, the child is struck by a car driven by Vinicio Cepeda (Damián Alcázar), a traveling
Cast
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John Leguizamo
Manolo Bonilla -
Leonor Watling
Marisa -
Damián Alcázar
Vinicio Cepeda -
Jose María Yazpik
Iván, Iván, Iv? -
Alfred Molina
Victor -
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All Critics (77) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (20) | DVD (8)
A riveting exploration of good and evil where the line between the two is unclear.
Top CriticNothing in this would-be thriller grabs you by the throat, never mind reaches down to your guts.
As good a commentary on our present media age as you're likely to find.
An ambitious social-commentary melodrama that works about half the time -- until it engages in the very behavior it sets out to condemn.
We've seen this cautionary tale before, and the outcome, while chilling from an ethical perspective, is almost a foregone conclusion.
[Cordero's] lens is focused on a larger ethics, on what makes human beings heroes and monsters.
Proceeds breathlessly and hysterically towards a story that in the end, seems to have hardly left the finish line.
A blunt instrument of a tale, with considerable emotional impact.
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...thoroughly underwhelming and surprisingly dull.
Leguizamo tackles his first Spanish-language role with considerable aplomb.
This suspenseful film and its star are as sharp as razors as they delve into the dark corners of life.
[Helmer] Cordero tries to humanize his monster and, as such, takes the wind out of Cronicas's sails.
Ecuadoran filmmaker Sebastian Cordero certainly has style to burn and has some intriguing opinions on the news media, though he could have left out some of the more melodramatic plot elements.
What should be the movie's strength, the mano-a-mano psychological sparring between Manolo and Vinicio, fizzles out with a dispiriting and easily anticipated ending.
a gritty story about a reporter who gets carried away by his ego while he believes he is pursuing the greater good
Cordero paints his villain with more points to ponder than his protagonist.
The hit-and-run destructiveness of the rapacious media is nothing new, but Cordero gives his cynical take a unique setting and a queasy climax.
An efficient but not-terribly-surprising crime drama that spins off a Silence of the Lambs-like dynamic.
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Foreign Titles
- Cronicas (DE)
- Cronicas (UK)
