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As narratively urgent as it is technically well-crafted, Midnight Family offers an enthralling and disquieting glimpse of healthcare in modern Mexico.
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"Midnight Family" is both a compassionate portrait of a working-class family and a frightening ride through a broken healthcare system that risks the lives of both patients and providers like the Ochoa family. Dec 18, 2019 | Full Review…
"Midnight Family" is both a compassionate portrait of a working-class family and a frightening ride through a broken healthcare system that risks the lives of both patients and providers like the Ochoa family.
Monica Castillo
What's indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation. Dec 11, 2019 | Full Review…
What's indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.
Carlos Aguilar
One of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark. Dec 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
One of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark.
Matt Zoller Seitz
Periodically while watching "Midnight Family" you feel as if you can't look at the screen for another second. But you can't look away either. Dec 5, 2019 | Full Review…
Periodically while watching "Midnight Family" you feel as if you can't look at the screen for another second. But you can't look away either.
Manohla Dargis
These moments of downtime provide a warm, comic energy to Midnight Family that renders the Ochoas naturally sympathetic subjects and illustrates why Lorentzen decided to film them in the first place. Dec 4, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
These moments of downtime provide a warm, comic energy to Midnight Family that renders the Ochoas naturally sympathetic subjects and illustrates why Lorentzen decided to film them in the first place.
Vikram Murthi
An intriguing perspective on health care in urban Mexico. Feb 11, 2019 | Full Review…
An intriguing perspective on health care in urban Mexico.
John DeFore
... Midnight Family is so attuned to its moral ambiguity that it's hard to fault anyone onscreen. They're all just trying their best. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
... Midnight Family is so attuned to its moral ambiguity that it's hard to fault anyone onscreen. They're all just trying their best.
Matt Cipolla
An urgent portrait of a system in collapse, Midnight Family also uncovers one family's raft of hope amid an ocean of desperation. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 4 | Full Review…
An urgent portrait of a system in collapse, Midnight Family also uncovers one family's raft of hope amid an ocean of desperation.
Hope Madden
Midnight Family offers a moving portrait of a complex, unfortunate situation for all concerned. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
Midnight Family offers a moving portrait of a complex, unfortunate situation for all concerned.
Diane Carson
The engrossing 'Midnight Family' is a thrilling portrait of one family trying to make a difference in a city that constantly works against them. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
The engrossing 'Midnight Family' is a thrilling portrait of one family trying to make a difference in a city that constantly works against them.
Nate Adams
A fascinating documentary that captures the every day challenges and problems faced by millions of hard-working people in Mexico. [Full Review in Spanish] Jan 15, 2020 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A fascinating documentary that captures the every day challenges and problems faced by millions of hard-working people in Mexico. [Full Review in Spanish]
Rene Sanchez
A rollicking docudrama of a news media rarity, a family making a living saving lives. Jan 13, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
A rollicking docudrama of a news media rarity, a family making a living saving lives.
Ron Wilkinson
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