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Sensitively written, skillfully directed, and powerfully portrayed, El Norte wrings deeply affecting drama from intractable real-life issues.
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From the very first moments of El Norte, we know that we are in the hands of a great movie. September 19, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
From the very first moments of El Norte, we know that we are in the hands of a great movie.
Roger Ebert
It is beautifully lensed and comes across as a kind of giant Renaissance canvas. September 19, 2014 | Full Review…
It is beautifully lensed and comes across as a kind of giant Renaissance canvas.
Variety Staff
El Norte is not exactly a great film, but it's a very good one that, through the devices of fiction, manages to provoke a number of healthily contradictory feelings about the world we all inhabit at the moment. August 23, 2004 | Full Review…
El Norte is not exactly a great film, but it's a very good one that, through the devices of fiction, manages to provoke a number of healthily contradictory feelings about the world we all inhabit at the moment.
Vincent Canby
Though his subject is a serious one and his intentions are apparently noble, Nava has made a film that is essentially indistinguishable from Love Story. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Though his subject is a serious one and his intentions are apparently noble, Nava has made a film that is essentially indistinguishable from Love Story.
Dave Kehr
Narrated in a direct and unsophisticated style, it has greatness but also the limitations of independent cinema that tends to look at the immediate with excessive schematism. [Full Review in Spanish] September 17, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Narrated in a direct and unsophisticated style, it has greatness but also the limitations of independent cinema that tends to look at the immediate with excessive schematism. [Full Review in Spanish]
Fotogramas Staff
The most striking thing about Gregory Nava's El Norte may be that so compelling and true a story took so long to make it to the screen. August 20, 2019 | Full Review…
The most striking thing about Gregory Nava's El Norte may be that so compelling and true a story took so long to make it to the screen.
Susan Jhirad
It's heartening to see this non-Hollywood production finding a solid niche in the commercial movie circuit. September 19, 2014 | Full Review…
It's heartening to see this non-Hollywood production finding a solid niche in the commercial movie circuit.
David Sterritt
Splendid on nearly every level. September 19, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Splendid on nearly every level.
Ken Hanke
A sobering glimpse of reality, that's also an irresistibly involving drama. September 19, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A sobering glimpse of reality, that's also an irresistibly involving drama.
David Parkinson
The result is a disturbing movie about hope and disappointment. September 19, 2014 | Full Review…
The result is a disturbing movie about hope and disappointment.
People Staff
Good intentions arent enough to compensate for bad editing, acting and writing. July 26, 2009 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…
Good intentions arent enough to compensate for bad editing, acting and writing.
Christopher Long
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