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El Chicano represents a step forward for representation in superhero cinema -- unfortunately, its clichéd story is nothing more than ordinary.
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It does have some riveting moments and some very strong acting. Sep 27, 2019 | Full Review…
It does have some riveting moments and some very strong acting.
Claudia Puig
Ben Hernandez Bray's "El Chicano" seldom amounts to anything more than a crude prototype for the kind of Latinx-driven superhero movies that Marvel and DC should already be making by now. May 14, 2019 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Ben Hernandez Bray's "El Chicano" seldom amounts to anything more than a crude prototype for the kind of Latinx-driven superhero movies that Marvel and DC should already be making by now.
David Ehrlich
This is a nasty, brutal little movie, more in the vein of a grindhouse revenge flick than anything else. But it's effectively done... May 7, 2019 | Full Review…
This is a nasty, brutal little movie, more in the vein of a grindhouse revenge flick than anything else. But it's effectively done...
Bilge Ebiri
[El Chicano] functions most effectively when it explores the dangers of moral ambiguity. May 3, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
[El Chicano] functions most effectively when it explores the dangers of moral ambiguity.
Christy Lemire
Like in this year's remake of Miss Bala, the Mexicans in this movie are the bad guys, the drug-running cartel members ruining it for the rest of us in the United States. May 3, 2019 | Full Review…
Like in this year's remake of Miss Bala, the Mexicans in this movie are the bad guys, the drug-running cartel members ruining it for the rest of us in the United States.
Monica Castillo
The problem here isn't the fairly apparent budgetary limits - it's the limitations of style and imagination. May 3, 2019 | Full Review…
The problem here isn't the fairly apparent budgetary limits - it's the limitations of style and imagination.
Dennis Harvey
The first all-Latino superhero movie is unfortunately an uninspiring B movie. May 13, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The first all-Latino superhero movie is unfortunately an uninspiring B movie.
Dennis Schwartz
[Director Ben Hernandez] Bray wants the film to be another straightforward superhero empowerment narrative. But he keeps stumbling onto complicated questions he doesn't want to acknowledge or resolve. May 9, 2019 | Full Review…
[Director Ben Hernandez] Bray wants the film to be another straightforward superhero empowerment narrative. But he keeps stumbling onto complicated questions he doesn't want to acknowledge or resolve.
Noah Berlatsky
When your lead actor doesn't seem to be having any fun in an action movie, there's not much left for audiences to cling to. Genre fans will need to look elsewhere for their gunslinger fix. May 9, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
When your lead actor doesn't seem to be having any fun in an action movie, there's not much left for audiences to cling to. Genre fans will need to look elsewhere for their gunslinger fix.
Matthew Monagle
Frenzied, ferocious avenger drama, filled with graphic violence May 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
Frenzied, ferocious avenger drama, filled with graphic violence
Susan Granger
El Chicano isn't that great of a movie, but it's ambitious and I am glad that it exists because it means we're walking toward more movies that star members of the Latinx community. May 7, 2019 | Full Review…
El Chicano isn't that great of a movie, but it's ambitious and I am glad that it exists because it means we're walking toward more movies that star members of the Latinx community.
Shea Serrano
...the humorless and dark tendencies feel utterly labored. Dripping in brutish violence as a police procedural, El Chicano is a sunken saga riddled in strained grade-B crime drama cliches. May 4, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
...the humorless and dark tendencies feel utterly labored. Dripping in brutish violence as a police procedural, El Chicano is a sunken saga riddled in strained grade-B crime drama cliches.
Frank Ochieng
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