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Tigers Are Not Afraid draws on childhood trauma for a story that deftly blends magical fantasy and hard-hitting realism - and leaves a lingering impact.
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López elicits solid performances from the young actors, and her vision is clear and uncompromising. September 10, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
López elicits solid performances from the young actors, and her vision is clear and uncompromising.
Michael O'Sullivan
Call it Buñuel meets Blumhouse, a film that is flawed but so full of ideas that it doesn't matter. September 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Call it Buñuel meets Blumhouse, a film that is flawed but so full of ideas that it doesn't matter.
G. Allen Johnson
Blending the often frightening surrealism of a child's wild imagination with the blood-splattered realism of the drug cartels, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" is a highly original horror story made for these times. September 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Blending the often frightening surrealism of a child's wild imagination with the blood-splattered realism of the drug cartels, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" is a highly original horror story made for these times.
Cary Darling
It conveys the sense of destruction that's come with all the narco trafficking, but it also has this really beautiful fantasy element that's woven throughout. August 26, 2019 | Full Review…
It conveys the sense of destruction that's come with all the narco trafficking, but it also has this really beautiful fantasy element that's woven throughout.
Claudia Puig
It gets its claws into you, and won't let go. August 26, 2019 | Full Review…
It gets its claws into you, and won't let go.
Anthony Lane
Tigers Are Not Afraid may be imperfect, but you can feel the passion and creativity of its filmmaker in every decision. She's fearless. August 23, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Tigers Are Not Afraid may be imperfect, but you can feel the passion and creativity of its filmmaker in every decision. She's fearless.
Brian Tallerico
The gritty realism of the street blends with touches of animation and surreal, nightmarish images, magical realism that brings to mind the earliest films of Guillermo Del Toro, in a remarkable tale of traumatic childhood. March 13, 2020 | Full Review…
The gritty realism of the street blends with touches of animation and surreal, nightmarish images, magical realism that brings to mind the earliest films of Guillermo Del Toro, in a remarkable tale of traumatic childhood.
Cate Marquis
Issa Lopez's dark fantasy is a heartfelt genre film that surpasses all expectations. March 9, 2020 | Full Review…
Issa Lopez's dark fantasy is a heartfelt genre film that surpasses all expectations.
Manuel Betancourt
Writer/director Issa Lopez's Spanish-language genre mash-up often promises more than it can deliver, but it is helped by a group of compelling youngsters on screen. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
Writer/director Issa Lopez's Spanish-language genre mash-up often promises more than it can deliver, but it is helped by a group of compelling youngsters on screen.
Susan Wloszczyna
... an entertaining tale, deeply unnerving in concept and featuring a few decent chills. January 13, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
... an entertaining tale, deeply unnerving in concept and featuring a few decent chills.
Filipe Freitas
Tigers Are Not Afraid is unrelenting in the darkness of its material, but Issa López merges the genre conventions of fairy tales and ghost stories with the genuinely dizzying emotions of childhood. October 31, 2019 | Full Review…
Tigers Are Not Afraid is unrelenting in the darkness of its material, but Issa López merges the genre conventions of fairy tales and ghost stories with the genuinely dizzying emotions of childhood.
Roxana Hadadi
Brutal as it gets, the mystic otherworldliness of the clash between spirits and villains makes it watchable. October 9, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Brutal as it gets, the mystic otherworldliness of the clash between spirits and villains makes it watchable.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
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