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Raw, brutal, and bitter, Cartel Land offers a ground-level look at vigilante efforts to thwart organized crime at the Mexican-American border.
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Heineman goes through the gates of Hell and comes back empty-handed. Sep 10, 2015 | Rating: 2/5
Heineman goes through the gates of Hell and comes back empty-handed.
David Ehrlich
Thoroughly researched, occasionally engrossing, but ultimately frustrating. Sep 3, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Thoroughly researched, occasionally engrossing, but ultimately frustrating.
Kevin Maher
There's no doubting Heineman and his crew's audacity as they venture close to the line of fire, but the commitment to observing dispassionately at all times starts to feel a bit like a cop-out. Sep 3, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There's no doubting Heineman and his crew's audacity as they venture close to the line of fire, but the commitment to observing dispassionately at all times starts to feel a bit like a cop-out.
Leslie Felperin
There are scenes here unlike anything you've seen. Timely, thoughtful and supremely well-constructed, we'd be stunned if this isn't the doc to beat on Oscar night. Sep 1, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There are scenes here unlike anything you've seen. Timely, thoughtful and supremely well-constructed, we'd be stunned if this isn't the doc to beat on Oscar night.
Tom Huddleston
This raw and compelling (if necessarily incomplete) documentary focuses on the recent battles between drug cartels and vigilantes along the Arizona-Mexico border. Jul 16, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This raw and compelling (if necessarily incomplete) documentary focuses on the recent battles between drug cartels and vigilantes along the Arizona-Mexico border.
John Hartl
Even if it leaves you wanting more, "Cartel Land" deserves to be seen. Jul 16, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Even if it leaves you wanting more, "Cartel Land" deserves to be seen.
Ty Burr
Cartel Land vividly presents the gulf between fantasies of vigilante heroism, and how they often harrowingly -- if not bitterly -- play out in reality. Apr 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Cartel Land vividly presents the gulf between fantasies of vigilante heroism, and how they often harrowingly -- if not bitterly -- play out in reality.
Christine Jun
It's really hard to take your eyes off Cartel Land-even when you might need to (re: graphic images of cartel victims). Mar 2, 2019 | Full Review…
It's really hard to take your eyes off Cartel Land-even when you might need to (re: graphic images of cartel victims).
Amie Simon
Raw, brutal, and ambitious, Cartel Land may be a real life story, but its limited scope in truly exploring the ideas it raised left me wanting more. Jan 9, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Raw, brutal, and ambitious, Cartel Land may be a real life story, but its limited scope in truly exploring the ideas it raised left me wanting more.
Joel Mayward
The run-and-gun style and Heineman's jaw-dropping access will keep your heart pounding through this examination of the current War on Drugs. Nov 28, 2018 | Full Review…
The run-and-gun style and Heineman's jaw-dropping access will keep your heart pounding through this examination of the current War on Drugs.
Thrillist Entertainment Staff
An almost unbelievably intimate piece of cinematic journalism Nov 16, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An almost unbelievably intimate piece of cinematic journalism
Daniel Barnes
An examination of whether vigilante justice - no matter how well-intentioned at the start - is doomed, ultimately, to become just another example of would-be good guys falling prey to the lure of egotism and/or big money. Aug 16, 2017 | Full Review…
An examination of whether vigilante justice - no matter how well-intentioned at the start - is doomed, ultimately, to become just another example of would-be good guys falling prey to the lure of egotism and/or big money.
Dan Webster
Reality has Never Been so Riveting A visceral, kinetic, breath-taking, and highly effective documentary, Cartel Land is a film that stands above the rest in its story-telling and authenticity. The embedded filmmaker follows two organic resistance groups to the incredibly violent drug cartels, a group of disgruntled and frustrated militia members on the US side, an an armed civilian uprising on the Mexican side. What results is a film that absolutely mesmerizes the viewer with heart-pounding action, first-person testimony, and undeniable carnage. You can read about Cartel violence or be transported to it with this documentary, a film that is apolitical and only seeks to inform. Excellent 4.5/5 Stars
Super Reviewer
Could not stop watching this....this is just a fascinating film. Glad that it got nominated for best documentary.
What is most admirable in this excellent film is how Heineman risks his life in the middle of the crossfire with his camera so that he can show us this tragic, appalling and complex situation to which there seems to be no solution and where one step forward means two steps back.
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