Identifying Features
2020, Drama, 1h 35m
47 Reviews Fewer than 50 RatingsWhat to know
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A slow-burning descent into desperation, Identifying Features uses one shattered family's ordeal to offer a harrowing look at the immigrant experience. Read critic reviews
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Magdalena
Miguel
Jesús
Olivia
Rigo
Chuya
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An austere, gorgeously shot parable of chaos and loss in modern Mexico, "Identifying Features" is an assured directorial debut from Fernanda Valadez...
January 29, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Making her feature debut, Mexican writer-director Fernanda Valadez finds a personal tragedy within a national one... She's made a humanitarian lament by way of a slow-burn thriller.
January 23, 2021 | Rating: A | Full Review… -
Equal parts odyssey, investigation and descent, this eerily shattering dispatch from the heart of a grief-beset country... has the power to expand our notions of what a border story is.
January 23, 2021 | Full Review… -
Identifying Features peels back that feel-good façade of the 'coming to America' narrative for a much more painful reality, one that feels freshly steeped in tears, heartache, and headlines.
January 22, 2021 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… -
Magdalena is a woman driven by her need for answers, and while "Identifying Features" doesn't provide all of them, it offers a rich window into the search for the truth.
January 22, 2021 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… -
An unsettling feeling hums through the film, and remains well after. Less of a jolt, then; call it a sustained current.
January 22, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
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