Us
Captain Marvel
Widows
The Walking Dead
Log in with Facebook
OR
By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.
We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified.
Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service.
No consensus yet.
All Critics (11) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (1)
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts. Dec 5, 2003
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts.
Bob Campbell
Director Trapero drives home his message -- the thin line between crooks and cops -- without hitting viewers over the head or seeming to point fingers. Nov 26, 2003 | Rating: 3/4
Director Trapero drives home his message -- the thin line between crooks and cops -- without hitting viewers over the head or seeming to point fingers.
V.A. Musetto
[A] powerful sweat-stained swatch of Argentine neo-realism. Nov 25, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
[A] powerful sweat-stained swatch of Argentine neo-realism.
Stephen Holden
The vapor traces of farce and policier that waft from this terribly earnest film never coalesce. Nov 25, 2003
The vapor traces of farce and policier that waft from this terribly earnest film never coalesce.
Michael Atkinson
Wry, acerbic, satiric and moving. Nov 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/4
Wry, acerbic, satiric and moving.
John Anderson
Low budget and technically polished, El Bonaerense is a calm, simmering satire of a police force that is a power all to itself. Apr 9, 2004 | Rating: 2.75/5 | Full Review…
Low budget and technically polished, El Bonaerense is a calm, simmering satire of a police force that is a power all to itself.
Kent Turner
Brimming with wry humor, softened by the filmmaker's Renoir-like love of his protagonist, El Bonaerense is a masterful illustration of vitiation, the sort that simple men like Zapa are heir to. Nov 29, 2003 | Full Review…
Brimming with wry humor, softened by the filmmaker's Renoir-like love of his protagonist, El Bonaerense is a masterful illustration of vitiation, the sort that simple men like Zapa are heir to.
Maria Garcia
Trapero again proves himself a master of mood, evoking the gritty, workaday world of contemporary Argentina that helped establish him as one of the most important young directors of the new Argentine cinema. Nov 25, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5
Trapero again proves himself a master of mood, evoking the gritty, workaday world of contemporary Argentina that helped establish him as one of the most important young directors of the new Argentine cinema.
Ken Fox
Stunningly shot in earthy graininess, Trapero's film feels so real it's hard to remember this is fiction. Sep 12, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Stunningly shot in earthy graininess, Trapero's film feels so real it's hard to remember this is fiction.
Rich Cline
A stark and troubling film. Sep 6, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A stark and troubling film.
Jamie Russell
There are no featured reviews for El bonaerense at this time.
There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.
View All